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The Strurm Abteilung, or Storm Section, (SA) was a group under Captain Ernst Roehm formed as Hitler's private army in 1921. The SA was principally used to interfere with political opponents and to provide security for Adolf Hitler. They were referred to as Stormtroopers or Brownshirts (due to the color of the shirts they wore under their gray jackets). In 1934 the SA reached a strength of 4,500,000 men. After Roehm's execution on the Night of the Long Knives, the SA was headed by Victor Lutze, a weak leader who gradually lost power to the Schutz Staffeinel (SS) headed by Heinrich Himmler.

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