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by chewz 2524 days ago
> I believe Brown was chosen for the Nazi SA uniforms because they were cheap.

No, it was taken from Harvard's University colors, I believe.

> Hanfstaengl composed both Brownshirt and Hitler Youth marches patterned after his Harvard football songs and, he later claimed, devised the chant "Sieg Heil"

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

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"Brown-colored shirts were chosen as the SA uniform because a large number of them were cheaply available after World War I"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

Harvard university is Crimson?