
They went after communists, trade unionists and socialists after the Nazis came to power,” Blackbourn said. “What happened is that the Brownshirts, the Stormtrooper bully boys, became auxiliary police. What happened to the brownshirts in Germany? The official uniform of the SA was the brown shirt with a brown tie…. The SA were colloquially called Brownshirts (Braunhemden) because of the colour of their uniform’s shirts, similar to Benito Mussolini’s blackshirts. March 1933 German federal election: National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes. Roosevelt declares a “Bank holiday”, closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the ‘holiday’ ends on March 13). It's also the perfect time for a bit of a retrospective on the series, looking at the toughest, baddest, and most dangerous characters in The Clone Wars.The Great Depression: President Franklin D. The Clone Wars is back and everything is looking just a bit sunnier. THE CLONE WARS! Then we see Ahsoka again and it's time to pop the champagne and celebrate. A trailer focused on - could it be - clone trooper helmets? Clone war machines then showed up and then, just when we all were too scared to dream: Anakin Skywalker, Captain Rex, "Binary Sunset" swelling in the background. Rebels had been disappointing for some, and Resistance didn't look to be much better. Then, came San Diego Comic-Con International 2018 specifically, the Star Wars Animation panel. There were a lot of plot threads left unaddressed, although some would later be resolved in comics, novels, and Rebels, the next animated series.įans were disappointed that they would never see some promised concepts, like the Bad Batch and the Siege of Mandalore. While it did get a final season on Netflix, the show had been planned to run for another season or two beyond that. The final televised season premiered a mere month before the announcement of the Disney buyout, and the series was cancelled shortly thereafter.

It quickly took its place as one of the better Star Wars continuations, and garnered a lot of love from fans and newcomers alike. While it had a rough start, things turned around by the third season. Star Wars: The Clone Wars was the last piece of Star Wars media with George Lucas' direct involvement.
