• Stormtrooper (redirect from Stosstrupp)
    Look up stormtrooper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stormtrooper or storm trooper may refer to: Stormtroopers (Imperial Germany), specialist soldier...
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    Stoßtrupp-Hitler or Stosstrupp-Hitler ("Shock-Troop-Hitler") was a small, short-lived bodyguard unit set up specifically for Adolf Hitler in 1923. Notable...
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    renamed Stoßtrupp (Shock Troop) 'Adolf Hitler'. Maurice, Julius Schreck, Joseph Berchtold, and Erhard Heiden, were all members of the Stoßtrupp. On 9 November...
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    renamed Stoßtrupp-Hitler ("Shock Troop-Hitler"). The unit was solely responsible for Hitler's personal protection. On 9 November 1923 the Stoßtrupp, along...
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  • Heiden joined a small personal bodyguard unit for Adolf Hitler named Stoßtrupp-Hitler ("Shock Troop–Hitler"). That same year, Hitler felt strong enough...
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    unit was renamed Stoßtrupp (Shock Troop)–Hitler. The unit numbered no more than 20 members at that time. On 9 November 1923, the Stoßtrupp, along with the...
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  • operations. "Shock troop" is a calque, a loose translation of the German word Stoßtrupp (literally "push squad"). Assault troopers are typically organized for...
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    youngest to die in the putsch. Member of the Nazi Party, Sturmabteilung, and Stoßtrupp-Hitler. Kurt Neubauer, valet for Erich Ludendorff and World War I veteran...
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    Later that year, the unit was renamed Stoßtrupp-Hitler ("Shock Troop-Hitler"). On 9 November 1923 the Stoßtrupp, along with the SA and several other paramilitary...
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    Stabswache (staff guard), Adolf Hitler's bodyguard, soon renamed the Stoßtrupp (shock troop), also adopted in May 1923 the Totenkopf (death's head) and...
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