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Sounds,03 Jul 2024,35 mins

SeriesAdolf Hitler: Rise and Downfall

Hitler Part 5: The Early Years, The Stormtroopers Arrive

Real Dictators

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Hitler decides he needs an army of his own. The Nazis create a new paramilitary unit – the Sturmabteilung, or SA. These hooligans take National Socialism onto the streets. Hitler assembles an executive team of deputies. They include Ernst Röhm - an army insider with a stockpile of weapons. And a celebrity fighter pilot called Hermann Göring... This is Part 5 of 25.

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