Reply #10: daddy was SS, not SA

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Daddy was SS, not just a measly brown shirt.

SS were responsible for a lot more war crimes than the 1930s era SA, that were also known as brown shirts. SS had black uniforms, while SA wore khaki or brown duds. SS were generally prosecutable by the Allies, while those who had been running around with the SA in 1933, but dropped out of Nazi activities afterward, generally were not prosecutable.

SS was very small until the late 1930s. SA, which was large and running around the streets of Germany in the late 1920s-1934, pretty much faded out after the Rohm Putsch, which BTW was aimed largely against gays and economic leftists within the SA and Nazi Party. After 1934, there were essentially no more economic leftists among the nazis, although there had been some present prior to the Rohm putsch. The SA had basically no duties during WWII.

http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/sa-history.htm

SS and the Gestapo were the ones who committed most of the war crimes.