Brown Shirts SA came first, but were upgraded to Blackshirts SS later, as they looked more menacing, and Hitler had executed many of the top SA officers for supposedly plotting his overthrow.

The SAs primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, and fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties. Sound like Antifa?

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I work in IT, Community volunteer interested in Politics, support Capitalism as the best economic system for lifting people out of poverty, Skeptical scientist.