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Stormtroopers! — 10 Facts About Germany’s Elite Assault Soldiers of WW1

Posted on 9 April, 20144 November, 2026 by MilitaryHistoryNow.com

“The attackers weren’t ordinary German infantrymen, they were the Kaiser’s elite sturmtruppen or ‘stormtroopers’ — handpicked men, specially trained and armed to the teeth.” THE KAISER’S 1918 ‘Spring Offensive’ on the Western Front, codenamed…

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