storm troops
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War Minister von Schleicher, who had been trying to pacify Nazis by incorporating their storm troops with the regular army in some manner, admitted that he no longer dared attempt it.
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Some had worked out a balance between home and state, joining the storm troops and Hitler Youth, while keeping alive their true loyalties at home.
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After it he went to Hamburg, where he organized the Communist storm troops.
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Vicente Lombardo Toledano, dynamic leader of the CTM, has organized and uniformed a formidable army of 200,000 storm troops, drilling them morning and night with broomsticks until more effective weapons are forthcoming.
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Three divisions of special storm troops, the 184th, 12th, and 27th Reserve, had been brought up for this purpose, though one of them had been engaged before and roughly handled.
From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various
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