WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The SA were colloquially called Brownshirts (Braunhemden) because of the colour of their uniform’s shirts, similar to Benito Mussolini’s blackshirts. The official uniform of the SA was a brown shirt with a brown tie.

Detailed explanation-2: -Quick Reference. Member of an early Nazi paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung or SA (’assault division’). The Brownshirts, recruited from various rough elements of society, were founded by Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1921.

Detailed explanation-3: -At about this same time, for similar reasons, the military SS formations (the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and the SS-Verfügungstruppe) adopted a service uniform in what was termed “earth-grey” (erdgrau).

Detailed explanation-4: -Hugo Boss company The company produced shirts and jackets and later work clothing, sportswear, and raincoats. In the 1930s, it produced uniforms for the SA, the SS, the Hitler Youth, the postal service, the national railroad, and later the Wehrmacht.

Detailed explanation-5: -Stormtroopers (German: Sturmtruppen or Stoßtruppen) were specialist infantry soldiers of the German Army. In the last years of World War I, Stoßtruppen ("shock troopers” or “shove troopers") were trained to use infiltration tactics – part of the Germans’ improved method of attack on enemy trenches.