Hold on. There’s 1.3 million active US service members. Less than 1% of the US population. The US is about 3.5 million square miles. Germany in 1932 had a population of about… 64 million, the SA had 4 million members. About 6% of the population. Germany was about 162,000 square miles? Dude
Applying math to this stuff always brings things into focus. No wonder we’re so ungovernable. You couldn’t rule this country through force if you were competent.
You’re off by an order of magnitude. SA in 1932 started at about 400,000. It peaked at about 3 million once they were in power and able to recruit openly.
The US Army is in the ballpark of 450,000 active soldiers.
Sorry, was operating off of what I could find on Wikipedia. The numbers I pulled were for all US armed forces across all branches, not just the army