R & A No. 3113.7 / Principal Nazi Organizations Involved in the ...

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The SA was then centrally organised into Groups, Brigades, Standards,
Troops, and Storm»P -- an organisation basically maintained until
the breakdown of the Nazi regime» In 1930, after a brief revolt
of the radical elements in the SA, Pfeffer was retired from the leader­
ship and Hitler made himself Supreme Leader of the SAj Ernst Rohm
was appointed Chief of Staff of the SA, a position which he held
until his assassination in 1934« The SA was enlarged by the formation
of the SA Reserve (for Party members over .forty years of age) in 19299
and of the SA Hotor Troop in 1930. In 1931, Hitler opened the first
School for Reich Loaders of the SA and SS in Munich,,
In the year3 just prior to Hitler* s ascent to power, the
terroristic activities of the SA reached a new high, culminating
t it 2
in the brutal murder,, «f Potempa in the Summer of 1932. Under
pressure by the leftist parties, t.ne SA was again prohibited for
the entire Reich territory in April 1932, but the government of
von Papon lifted the ban as early as June 1932.
With the seizure of power in 1933$ the SA becane the mass
instrument for the open Nazi terror against political, racial, and
ideological oppon the assaults and
property aeizures, and the pogroms and arsons which took place during
I» See 3» b, below.
2„ See "The Attitude of the Nazi Party Toward Political Terror,"
R&A Report No. 3114.1.
3. See "Crimes Con; it tod in Violation of Domestic German law,"
R&A Report No. 31M2.
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