Anti-Semit
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Anti-Semit was a brand of tobacco
Tobacco
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines...

 sold by the Nazi Party from 1920 in order to raise funds. Its name reflected the anti-Semitic stance of the Party. The idea was not unique, as in the 1920s and 1930s, four brands of cigarette were produced by the Sturm cigarette factory
Sturm-Zigaretten
Sturm-Zigaretten was a brand of cigarettes sold to generate funds for the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung . SA member Otto Wagener had persuaded manufacturers Trommler, based in Dresden to produce Sturm cigarettes, with a share of the profits being given to the SA...

 to raise money for the Party's Sturmabteilung
Sturmabteilung
The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...

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