INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
NAZISM IN GERMANY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Black shirts
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Brown shirts
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -While different uniforms existed for the SS over time, the all black SS uniform adopted in 1932 is the most well known. The black-white-red colour scheme was characteristic of the German Empire, and was later adopted by the Nazi Party.
Detailed explanation-2: -The SS uniform was all black, as opposed to the Wehrmacht’s field grey, giving it an air of crispness and power exclusive only to black dress. In addition to the same elegant effects of the Wehrmacht uniform, the SS uniform added its own ingredient of fear to the fashion of the Third Reich.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ironically the infamous black Allgemeine SS uniform, familiar from prewar newsreels, was not worn by combat troops; the Waffen-SS wore feldgrau or camouflage.
Detailed explanation-4: -First, the Brownshirts of the S.A. Stormtroopers helped him attain power via strong-arm street politics and then the Blackshirts of the highly-feared S.S. transformed Germany into an occult-based police state and carried out the most heinous crime of the twentieth century-the Holocaust.