Hitler formed and organized the SA (Street Army) police, and the SS, a select group of bodyguards dressed in black, that helped to carry out his coercion practices on a national scale. ... The purpose of this terrorism was so that he could maintain control with a strong arm, even within his own circle of influence. ... His staff would present him with information on the status and actions of all units down to division strength or lower, as well as on special subjects such as arms production or the technical specifications of new weapons. ... No military leader can hope to understand the ...

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From 1868 to 1870, while federal occupation troops were being withdrawn from the southern staes and radical regimes replaced with the Democratic administrations, the Klan was increasingly dominated by the rougher elements in the poulation. ... With those that were left they adopted a new fraternal organization incorporated in Georgia in 1915. the official name of the society, Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. ... With the death of its strongest postwar leader, it broke down into numerous, independant, competing units, which often didn't last long enough to be plac...

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In the United States, Americans were wrestling with the ravages of the Great Depression. With the lingering memory of the more than 300,000 U.S. troops either killed or injured in World War I, isolationism was the dominant sentiment in most political circles. ... It was in this context that the democratic world, led by the United States, was faced with a refugee problem that it was morally bound to deal with. ... Even Hitler commented with bitter sarcasm regarding Western hypocrisy, "It is a shameful example to observe today how the entire democratic world dissolves in tears of pity,...

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