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For history geeks; SA in 1941 Prague?


Early on there is a scene showing SA Hochland attacking a Jewish family on the streets of Prague.
I was wondering if this scene isn't a bit anachronistic.
By 1939 the SA would have almost vanished from the streets or were wearing regular uniforms and no longer the old brown shirts.
And in Prague?
I know the Hochland SA was situated in the Sudetenland, but they still seem a bit out of place.
It is more a scene you'd expect in 1930s Berlin than 1940s Prague.

In short, how authentic is it for SA in brown uniform to be actively beating up people in Prague in late 1941?

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I thought the exact same thing. They were decapitated and merged into the SS during the night of the long knives in June 1934, which was planned by Heydrich

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Sorry completely wrong. The SA existed until 1945. Viktor Lutze took over from Rohm and though it became more and more marginal it never disappeared and in various Volkdeutsch area the SA formed alarm companies etc for security etc

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Not according to every book, history report and article I've read. And I've read a lot. And by god wars starts the brown shirts were definitely out.

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Sorry friend. Factually wrong. It was never merged or disbanded. Vastly reduced in importance and status but not merged etc.
Wiki entry:
After the Night of the Long Knives, the SA continued to exist under the leadership of Viktor Lutze, but the group was largely placated and significantly downsized.[25] However, attacks against the Jews escalated in the late 1930s and the SA was a main perpetrator of the actions.

In November 1938, after the murder of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan (a Polish Jew), the SA were used for "demonstrations" against the act. In violent riots, members of the SA shattered the glass storefronts of about 7,500 Jewish stores and businesses, hence the name Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) given to the events.[26] Jewish homes were ransacked throughout Germany. This pogrom damaged, and in many cases destroyed, about 200 synagogues (constituting nearly all Germany had), many Jewish cemeteries, more than 7,000 Jewish shops, and 29 department stores. Some Jews were beaten to death and more than 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and taken to concentration camps.[27]

Thereafter, the SA became overshadowed by the SS, and by 1939 had little remaining significance in the Nazi Party. In January 1939, the role of the SA was officially established as a training school for the armed forces with the establishment of the SA Wehrmannschaften (SA Military Units).[28] With the start of World War II in September 1939, the SA lost most of its remaining members to military service in the Wehrmacht (armed forces).[25] Later, an attempt was made to form an SA combat division on similar lines to the Waffen-SS, the result being the creation of the Feldherrnhalle SA-Panzergrenadier Division.[citation needed]

In 1943, Viktor Lutze was killed in an automobile accident and leadership of the group was assumed by Wilhelm Schepmann.[29] Schepmann did his best to run the SA for the remainder of the war, attempting to restore the group as a predominant force within the Nazi Party and to mend years of distrust and bad feelings between the SA and SS.

The SA officially ceased to exist in May 1945 when Nazi Germany collapsed.

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I don't think there were SA in Bohemia-Moravia either, but I guess they're counting on us not to know these things. We're just supposed to watch.

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