Military wings of fascist parties

The Schutzstaffel (; ; SS; also stylised with SS runes as ᛋᛋ) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

The '''''' (; or loosely 'stormtroopers'), or SA, was the original paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party of Germany. It played a significant role in Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and early 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Roter Frontkämpferbund of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and intimidating

The '''''' (; ) was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both German-occupied Europe and unoccupied lands. With the start of World War II, tactical control was exercised by the (OKW, "High Command of the Armed Forces"), with some units being subordinated to the () directly under Heinrich Himmler's control. It was disbanded in May 1945.

The Voluntary Militia for National Security (, MVSN), commonly called the Blackshirts (, CCNN, singular: ) or (singular: ), was originally the paramilitary wing of the National Fascist Party, known as the Squadrismo, and after 1923 an all-volunteer militia of the Kingdom of Italy under Fascist rule, similar to the SA. Its members were distinguished by their black uniforms (modelled on those of the Arditi, Italy's elite troops of World War I) and their loyalty to Benito Mussolini, the Duce (leader) of Fascism, to whom they swore an oath. The founders of the paramilitary groups were nationalist

Turkish far-right ultranationalist political foundation

special operations unit within the Haitian paramilitary force created in 1959 by dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier

militia maintained by the Slovak People's Party in the period from 1938 to 1945

Serbian paramilitary group

Hungarian paramilitary group

Lithuanian militarized organization

The Impuzamugambi (, "those with the same goal") was a Hutu militia in Rwanda formed in 1992. Together with the Interahamwe militia, which formed earlier and had more members, the Impuzamugambi was responsible for many of the deaths of Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Serbian collaborationist paramilitary group during WWII

political party in Ukraine

Fascist military

military unit

Hirden (the hird) was a uniformed paramilitary organisation during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, modelled the same way as the German Sturmabteilungen.

The Deutscher Kampfbund ("German Battle League") was a league of nationalist fighting societies and the German National Socialist Party in Bavaria, Germany, in the 1920s. It included Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party (NSDAP) and its Sturmabteilung (SA), the Oberland League and the Bund Reichskriegsflagge. Hitler was its political leader (as of 25 September 1923), while Hermann Kriebel led its militia and Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter became managing director.

military unit

thumb|Logo of Rodobrana Rodobrana (literally Home Defense/Nation's Defense) was a Slovak paramilitary organization of the Slovak People's Party. The organization existed, officially, from 1923 to 1927 in Czechoslovakia, when the authorities ordered its dissolution, though many of its members continued to function in other party organizations. It was a predecessor of the Hlinka Guard. According to Beneš decree No. 16/1945 Coll., membership of Rodobrana was punishable by 5–20 years of imprisonment, or life in prison in case of aggravated circumstances.

'''' () was the movement of (English: action squads), the fascist militias that were organised outside the authority of the Italian state and led by local leaders called ras'' (a noble Ethiopian title). The militia originally consisted of farmers and middle-class people, who created their own defence from revolutionary socialists. became an important asset for the rise of the National Fascist Party, led by Benito Mussolini, and systematically used violence to eliminate any political parties that were opposed to Italian fascism.

Portuguese paramilitary organization under the Second Portuguese Republic

former Lebanese Christian mititia, creators of the Lebanese Forces Militia

Volkssport is the German word for "People's Sport", and synonymous with Breitensport, defined as "sporting activities without the goal to compete". Volkssport consists today of Hiking, Swimming, Cycling and Skiing.

The Interbrigades () is a volunteer movement organized by the unregistered Russian National Bolshevik political party "The Other Russia" to participate in the war in eastern Ukraine on the side of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic.

armed wing of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party

Guatemalan death squad

organization

right-wing German paramilitary organization (1923-1928)

The Lăncieri ("Lancers", ) were a Romanian fascist paramilitary movement initially attached to the National-Christian Defense League (LANC), and following the merger on 16 July 1935 of the LANC and the National Agrarian Party to form the National Christian Party, the Lăncieri became associated with the merged party.

thumb|right|WA march on the occasion of Anton Mussert's birthday, May 11, 1941. The ' (WA'; "Resilience Department") was the paramilitary arm of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), the fascist political party that collaborated with the German occupiers of the Netherlands during World War II. The organization, roughly equivalent to the German SA, was founded in 1932 by Anton Mussert, co-founder of the NSB in 1931 and its leader until the end of the war. Members wore and marched in black uniforms and were thus called "blackshirts". In 1933 the Dutch government banned the we

early far-right paramilitary group with fascist leanings and ideology