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Austro-Hungarian High army command (Armeeoberkommando, AOK) realised the need for special forces and decided to draw on German experience. Starting in September–October 1916, about 120 officers and 300 NCOs were trained in the German training area in Beuville (near the village of Doncourt ) to be the main cadre of the newly raised Austro ...
The Brown Battalions: Hitler's SA in Words and Pictures. Turner. ISBN 1-56311-595-6. Maracin, Paul (2004). The Night of the Long Knives: 48 Hours that Changed the History of the World. The Lyons Press. Merkl, Peter H. (1980). The Making of a Stormtrooper. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-07620-0. Mitchell, Otis C. (2008). Hitler's ...
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The engraving is almost monochrome, rectangular in format (19.3 × 28.8 cm for the engraving, 34.8 × 47.3 cm for the sheet). The engraving represents five German stormtroopers, recognizable by their steel helmets, all wearing gas masks, as they are advancing into enemy lines, while suffering a gas attack.
The original pip system used by the SA in the 1920s. The brown shirted stormtroopers of the Sturmabteilung gradually come into being within the Nazi Party beginning in 1920. . By this time, Adolf Hitler had assumed the title of Führer of the Nazi Party, replacing Anton Drexler who had been known as the more democratically elected Party Chairm
Stormtrooper or storm trooper may refer to: Military. Stormtroopers (Imperial Germany), specialist soldier of the German Army in World War I;
Stormtroopers are fictional soldiers in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas.The term originates from Germany's First World War Sturmtruppen.Introduced in the original Star Wars film, the stormtroopers are the shock troops/space marines of the autocratic Galactic Empire, under the leadership of Emperor Palpatine and his enforcers, most notably Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin ...
The film was released on videocassette by Lightning Video in 1986. In 2005 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer issued a widescreen print of the film, which was shown on Showtime, fueling speculation that a DVD release may be possible in the near future.