Meanings of brownshirts in English

A couple of anxious-looking brownshirts were trying to clean it off.

Rudi had seen his father beaten to death by Hitler's brownshirts in 1938.

How many brownshirts does Rennie have?

More than 40% of Germany's industrial workers were idle and Nazi brownshirts were fighting communists for control of the streets.

We have a moderator who referred to one candidate's followers as brownshirts, and he's just allowed to pretend to be an objective interlocutor?

Brownshirts are stealing into your beer halls.

The clashes of the Brownshirts with communists and socialists played a crucial part in the rise of the Nazis.

Not now, booms Al, goose-stepping past like the Brownshirts you see in the grainy news trailers at the movies.

A number of Brownshirts-I'dforgotten all about them for the moment-wasscattered among the congregation, with eyes lowered and their caps in their hands.

Also brown, for Brownshirts, a force so vital, so strong, so bursting with muscle-couldAmerica possibly compete with the fabulous rising of Italy, Germany, Austria?