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*• The SA (Sturmabteilung)
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1« Origin tind Development The SA (Stu.Tiabteilung. Storm Troop)
was a formation (Gliederung) of the NSDAP. Its nuclei were trie so-
called JäDdteBßS&EäEQSl (order-maintenance troops), formed by the
Nazis in 1921 in order to "protect" their loaders, meetings, aad
demostrationso In 1921, after a violent battle between the
Ordnungotruppen and anti-Nazis at a rally in Munich, Hitler gave
these troops the ne.rae Sturmabteilung (Sk)a
From then on, the SA
developed into the principal, terroristic mass organization of the
NSDAP, a function v;hich it maintained until 1934* after which it
was gradually overshadowed by the SS0
The SA bore the brunt of the first mass demonstrations of the
NSDAP during the years 1922 and 1923; together with the laiejätafiche.
ffsrbanffe (a Free Corps), the SA demons trat 3d against the Law for
the Protection of the Republic in iüunich in August 1922 and participated
in the stormy nationalistic-militaristic Deutsche Tag (German Day)
in Coburg in October 1922.
In 1923, after the occupation of the Ruhr by the French, the
SA was reorganized into a Wehrverband (military league) and mobilized
for the active fight against the "foreign invaders»"' As such, the SA
joined the Arbeitsgemeinschaft. der Vaterlandischen Kampfverbande
1. Hitlerr Mein Kampf. Chapter IX; Qj-gftnAg^Agnsbucb dgr ySDAP, sd.
Der Reichaorgar^p^on^ep.er ier NSDAP. München 1940, p. 35Ö ff.;
Handbuch der Sä. ed. with the permission of the Supreme SA Command, ,
Berlin 1939, p. 13; Daten der Geschichte der NSDAP, ed. H&ns Volz,
Berlin 1939.
2 » Ernst Bayer. Dl© SA., ed. on commission of the Supreme SA Command,
Berlin 1938, p. 9.
3. Ibid.
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