In a Facebook post on Wednesday , the Singapore Army wrote, “Time to step aside Stormtroopers; meet our Army’s very own! May the Fourth be with you!” with an image of three Singapore Army soldiers firing against a Star Wars backdrop.
The day was chosen due to the famous phrase uttered in the Star Wars movies, “May The Force Be With You”, particularly by Jedi masters such as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker. In recent history, stormtroopers have been associated with Nazi Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler. They were the shock troops under Sthe paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who played a key role in Hitler’s rise to power in the 1920s and the 1930s. Their functions ranged from fighting the Nazi Party’s political rivals before Germany became a dictatorship under Hitler, providing protection for Nazi leaders and at rallies, to attacking Jews living in Germany.
Referring to the imperial troops in the Star Wars movies as “Nazis”, Lucas said in the commentary of “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back ", “The Nazis are basically the same costume as we used in the first film and they are designed to be very authoritarian, very empire-like.”
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