STORMTROOPER

Munich, Germany • October 5, 1921 On this date in 1921 the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (National­sozialis­tische Deutsche Arbeiter­partie, NSDAP or Nazi Party) headed by Adolf Hitler formally estab­lished the Sturm­ab­teilung (lit. “Storm Detach­ment”). The orga­ni­za­tion is better known by its ini­tials SA and col­lo­qui­ally as “brown­shirts” (Braun­hemden) for the color of their shirt…