Definitions for "Sturmabteilung"
storm troopers--Hitler's private military force; downgraded (violently) after Hitler became president of Germany in 1934.
the police force of the Nazi party.
The or SA (German for "Storm Division", usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers), functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP — the German Nazi party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s.