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The Black Shirts were Italian fascists who fought with the Nationalist Army during the Spanish Civil War. The Black Shirts occupied Majorica in August 1936 and ruled the island for ...
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... and black uniforms to the "Shield Squadron" (Schutzstaffel, also colloquially known as "Blackshirts", because they wore black suit-like tunics with brown shirts), Sir Oswald Mosley ...
Police force ditches shirts and ties for black shirts | Mail Online
For decades, a white shirt and black clip- on tie has been part of a police officer's uniform. But the dangers of modern policing - which mean officers must wear body armour on ...

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Black Shirts (Italian camicia nera), name given to members of the paramilitary Squadre d'Azione (action squad) founded in Italy in 1919, and so called because they wore black shirts as part of their uniform. Extremely nationalistic, the Black Shirts used violence to suppress opponents of fascism, particularly socialists and communists. They were organized by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who incorporated them into the Fascist party as a national militia in 1921. In October 1922 the Black Shirts marched on Rome and forced Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy, to accept Mussolini's regime. The term was also applied to the SS, the elite corps of the German Nazi party.