What were Nazi soldiers called?

Answer 1

nazis (the national socialist german workers party) were an anti-semetic, anti-marxist, and anti-democratic party led by adolf hitler. they were the fascist party that ruled Germany both militarily and politically from 1933 through 1945

Answer 2

The Nazi Party had two private armies of its own between 1919 and 1945.

The first was the Sturmabteilung ("Assault Section"), or SA for short. They were often called "Brownshirts" because their uniforms had brown shirts. In summer 1934, the SA's popular leader, Ernst Röhm, was executed because Adolf Hitler believed he was a threat. Afterward, the SA was mostly disbanded and folded over into the following organization.

The second was the Schutzstaffel ("Protection Staff"), or SS for short. Originally the SS was a part of the SA, and functioned as Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguards. After Röhm's death, the SS took over most of the SA's role, and also became the largest and most powerful security organization in Nazi Germany- it was also largely responsible for the Holocaust and other associated war crimes. One sub-section of the SS, called the "Waffen-SS" ("Armed-SS") acted like its own military, and had several elite divisions that fought alongside the regular German military.

The German military, known as the Wehrmacht ("Defense Force"), was not technically part of the Nazi Party, nor were its members necessarily sympathetic to the Nazi regime or its ideology. However, all soldiers were required to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler himself (and not to the country or constitution).