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Is Ukraine Like Hitler's Brownshirts?
The German Freikorps were volunteer paramilitary German militias that fought as mercenaries in Europe between the 1750s until World War 1. After 1918, "Freikorps" were paramilitary groups, mostly war veterans.
Hitler's Brownshirts aka Sturmabteilung (Storm Division) began wearing surplus brown shirts and ties in 1921