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Originally Posted by Itse
Having a personal paramilitary force with little to no legal oversight is a basic way for dictators to overrun all "checks and balances" and just bypass the existing law enforcement and legal systems. This is especially necessary in the early stages of a dictatorship, when power is not yet absolute and the existing systems haven't yet been sufficiently purged.
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SA (i.e. the Brownshirts) in the early days, then the SS (after Hitler agreed to disband the SA in return for loyalty of the Reichswehr)