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| | Nazi Paramilitary Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | The Assault Squad was led by an SA man, Julius Schreck, and a stationer who worked in the party treasury, Joseph Berchtold. |
 | | Thus 50 of Berchtold's men, already wearing fl-bordered swastika armbands and fl ski-caps with a silver death's head button, accompanied Hitler when he made his melodramatic entry into the Bürgerbräukeller on November 8, 1923, to announce the misadventure known as the Beer Hall Putsch. |
 | | Himmler's ingenious use of the "Sponsoring Membership" mechanism, vastly extended from Berchtold's original idea, allowed the SS to become financially independent, while at the same time adumbrating its elitist image and attraction. |
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