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Blackshirt

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Black Shirt also Black·shirt  (blkshûrt)
n.
A member of a fascist party organization having a black shirt as part of its uniform, especially an Italian fascist.
Blackshirt [ˈblækˌʃɜːt]
n
(Historical Terms) (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
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Noun1.Blackshirt - a member of the Italian fascist party before World War II
fascist - an adherent of fascism or other right-wing authoritarian views
Translations
blackshirt [ˈblækʃɜːt] N (Pol) → camisa negra mf
Blackshirt [ˈblækˌʃɜːt] n (Pol) → Camicia nera
Blackshirt [ˈblækˌʃɜːt] n (Pol) → Camicia nera


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She uses her beauty and her smarts, sleeping with blackshirts and partisans both, spying on each group for the other, drawn into war's vortex.
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Thus in June 1934, Hitler accused Roehm of plotting a "second revolution" against the Nazi State, and unleashed the Blackshirts to liquidate Roehm and his cadres (as well as several prominent conservative politicians).
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