Hitler's Brownshirts used Antifa tactics to overthrow Germany's Republic; D-Day

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After World War I, Germany's economy suffered from depression and a devaluation of their currency.

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On January 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany by promising hope and universal healthcare.

Less than a month later, on February 27, 1933, a crisis occurred – the Rheichstag, Germany's Capitol Building, was suspiciously set on fire, with evidence pointing to Hitler's supporters.

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Hitler was quick to use this crisis as an opportunity to set aside Germany's Weimar Republic and suspend basic rights.

Hitler overthrew the traditional leadership of Germany by using riots to destabilize the country.

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Hitler had radical homosexual activist Ernst Röhm and his feared Brownshirts, also called Sturmabteilung (storm troopers), to storm into the meetings of his political opponents, disrupting and shouting down speakers.

Brownshirts organized Antifa-style protests and street riots, smashing windows, blocking traffic, setting fires, vandalizing, and even beating to death innocent bystanders to spread

fear and panic.

They implemented boycotts of Jewish businesses, and in the Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), they smashed windows of over 7,500 Jewish stores and 200 synagogues.

Once securely in power, Hitler had his SS and Gestapo secret police kill the Brownshirts in the Night of the Long Knives, thus eliminating competition and giving the public

impression that he was cracking down on lawbreakers.

Hitler eradicated any remnants of moral religious restraint.

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He forced old German military leaders to retire by falsely accusing them.

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Some were imprisoned and even shot without a trial.

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Hitler confiscated guns from private citizens.

Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, pioneered the use of fake news to sway the public opinion to accept the lies of the deep-state:

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“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it …

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The truth is the greatest enemy of the state.”

In socialist countries, a person's life is only of worth if it benefits the state:

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"No life still valuable to the state will be wantonly destroyed." (German Penal Code, October 10, 1933)

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Those not promoting the deep-state narrative are driven from their jobs, publicly ridiculed, and eventually removed from society to labor and concentration camps.

National Socialist Workers Party operated over 1,200 concentration camps where millions of Jews, Poles, Gypsies, handicapped, and others were experimented upon, tortured,

or were killed in gas chambers.

German churches were silent, as they had for centuries taught pietism - a version of separation of church and state where Christians were instructed to only focus on their own personal spiritual life and withdraw from involvement in worldly politics.

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As a result, the church stood by silent as the National Socialist Workers Party usurped power, leaving the stopping of Hitler to done by the sacrifice of millions of courageous

Allied soldiers.

By the time a few courageous Germany church leaders spoke out, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, it was too late – the government had grown so powerful it simply arrested and executed them.

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Hitler's National Socialist Workers' Party used diplomatic intimidation, deception, and Blitzkrieg "lightning war" attacks to take control of:

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• Austria,

• The Sudeten Region,

• Bohemia,

• Moravia,

• Poland,

• Denmark,

• Norway,

• Luxembourg,

• Belgium,

• Holland,

• France,

• Monaco,

• Greece,

• The Channel Island (UK),

• Czechoslovakia,

• Baltic states,

• Serbia,

• Italy,

• Hungary,

• Romania,

• Bulgaria,

• Slovakia,

• Finland,

• Croatia, and more.

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Hitler’s Bullyboys: The Role of the SA in Nazi Germany

08 Aug 2018 Sounds like Antifa?

https://www.historyhit.com/hitlers-bullyboys-the-role-of-the-sa-in-nazi-germany/

The SA — Sturmabteilung, meaning ‘assault division’ — also known as the Brownshirts or Storm Troopers, was a violent paramilitary group attached to the Nazi Party in pre-World War Two Germany.

The SA was instrumental in the Nazi’s rise to power and played a diminished role during the Second World War. The Brownshirts are infamous for their operation outside of the law and their violent intimidation of Germany’s leftists and Jewish population. It was the SA’s thuggish vigilantism, independence from the regular army, and anti-capitalist sentiments of its leader, Ernst Röhm, that were ultimately its undoing.

Hitler launches the SA

Hitler formed SA in Munich in 1921, drawing membership from violent anti-leftist and anti-democratic former soldiers in order to lend muscle to the young Nazi Party. Recognizable by their brown uniforms, similar to those of Mussolini’s Blackshirts, the SA functioned a'''s a ‘security’ force at Nazi rallies and meetings, using threats and outright violence to secure votes and overcome Hitler’s political enemies.

The Beer Hall Putsch

Ernst Röhm became the leader of the SA after taking part in the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, a failed coup against the Weimar government in which Hitler lead 600 Brownshirts into a meeting between the Bavarian Prime Minister and 3,000 businessmen. Röhm had fought in the First World War, reaching the rank of captain, and later joined the Bavarian division of the Freikorps, a virulent right wing nationalist group active during the early years of the Weimar Republic.

The Freikorps, which officially came to an end in 1920, were responsible for the murder of prominent leftists like Rosa Luxemburg. Former members made up a large part of the initial ranks of the SA.

The growth of the Brownshirts'''

After the Beer Hall Putch, the SA took part in violent street clashes with communists. Its ranks swelled into the thousands during the 1920s and into the 1930s.

Though Röhm left the Nazi Party — and Germany — during the later half of the 1920s, he returned to lead the Brownshirts in 1931 and watched its numbers swell to 3 million within only 2 years. The SA’s violence against Jews and communists was unbridled, yet some of Ernst Röhm’s interpretations of Nazi ideology were literally socialistic and in opposition to Hitler’s, including supporting striking workers and attacking strike-breakers.

The Night of the Long Knives

In his bid to secure powerful support and rise to power, Hitler sided with big business instead of Röhm and his pro-working class supporters. On June 30, 1934 the Night of the Long Knives erupted in a bloody purge among the SA ranks, in which Röhm and all senior Brownshirts, either deemed too socialist or not loyal enough for the new Nazi Party, were arrested by the SS and eventually executed.

SA leadership was granted to Viktor Lutze, who had informed Hitler of Röhm’s seditious activities. Lutze headed the SA until his death in 1943.

The shrinking role of the SA

After the purge, the SA diminished both in size and importance, though it was still used for violent actions against Jews, notably Kristallnacht on the 9 – 10 November, 1938. After the events of Kristallnacht, the SS took over the position of the Brownshirts, who were then relegated to the role of a training school for the German military.

Mistrust of the SA by the SS prevented the Brownshirts from ever regaining a prominent role in the Nazi Party. The organisation was officially disbanded in 1945 when Germany fell to the Allied Powers.

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