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The History of the Twentieth Century

267 The Brown Battalions

The History of the Twentieth Century

Mark Painter

History

4.8719 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

With the 1930 German federal election, the Nazi party went from the fringes to status as one of Germany's major political parties. But that's not the same as participating in government.

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Clear the streets for the brown battalions.

0:05.0

Clear the streets for the brown battalions. Clear the streets for the brown battalions.

0:23.0

Clear the streets for the storm division man.

0:27.0

Millions are looking upon the swastika full of hope.

0:30.3

The day of freedom and of bread dawns.

0:35.6

Das horse to vessel lead.

0:42.2

Welcome to the history of the 20th century. The 20th century.

1:12.4

The Episode 267, The Brown Battalions Host Vessel was born on October 9, 1907, in Vestphalia.

1:22.9

His father was an evangelical minister, in the United States, we would say a Lutheran minister.

1:31.1

Horst grew up in Berlin, where his father was serving a church. In 1926, the now 18-year-old

1:38.7

Horst enrolled in Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and took up the study of law.

1:47.6

Horst's father was a staunch supporter of the Conservative monarchist National People's Party,

1:54.2

and Horst joined the party's youth group when he was 15.

1:59.0

As he grew older, he migrated to young men's groups that were connected to

2:03.6

the Frye Corps, and shortly after he turned 19, he joined the Sturm Abtai Lung, the S.A., the paramilitary

2:12.3

brown shirts of Adolf Hitler's NSDAP. The leader of the National Socialist Party in Berlin was the 29-year-old

2:23.8

Yosef Goebbels, a writer and academic who held a degree in philology from the University of Heidelberg.

2:31.5

The Berlin branch of the party was small, but it was zealous, and it had its own

2:37.4

SA unit. Goebbels subscribed to the principle that there was no such thing as bad publicity,

2:44.4

so he encouraged the essay and provocative street demonstrations and acts of violence,

2:50.3

especially against communists and Jews,

2:54.0

as a way of drawing attention to the National Socialist Movement.

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