re: Arnold Schwarzenegger says F*CK Your Freedom

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According to documents obtained in 2003 from the Austrian State Archives by the Los Angeles Times,[a] Schwarzenegger voluntarily applied to join the Austrian National Socialist Party on 1 March 1938, eleven days before the country was annexed. Austria became part of Nazi Germany after being annexed on 12 March 1938.[2] A separate record obtained by the Wiesenthal Center indicates he sought membership before the annexation, but was only accepted in January 1941.
Schwarzenegger also applied to become a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi party's (NSDAP) paramilitary wing, on 1 May 1939, a year after the annexation of Austria, at a time when SA membership was declining. The SA had 900,000 members in 1940, down from 4.2 million in 1934. This six year decline in SA membership was an extended result of the three-day-long purge known as The Night of the Long Knives, a political purge carried out by Adolf Hitler against the SA, seen at that time as too radical and too powerful by senior military and industrial leaders within the Nazi Party.

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