[hangonhn]

The Stormtroopers are based on WWII German army uniforms and equipment, even down to the gas mask cylinder that German soldiers carried behind them. Even the name Stormtroopers comes from German WWII unit type name.

[chrisseaton]

> Even the name Stormtroopers comes from German WWII unit type name.

Stormtroopers were from the First World War.

> Stormtroopers were specialist soldiers of the German Army in World War I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtrooper

[jbattle]

sturmtruppen were 'invented' in WW1 to capture trenches, though yeah the term lived on to the next WW