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the first years of the Nazi regiite. In February 1933, Goring, as
Prussian Prime Minister, issued an order incorporating members
of the SA into the Prussian police as an "auxiliary police force,"
and the SA was placed in charge of the concentration camps then in
existence. For example, the concertration camp Oranienburg WHS
officially designated, as Konzentrationslager Oranienburg der SA
Standarte 208P with SA Stumbannffh?-er Schaefer in command,, 1 After
the purge of 1934-, ' the SA gradually relinquished this function to
the SS.
In June 1933, the Stahlhelau the para-military organization
affiliated with the rightist German Kational People's Party, was
incorporated into the SA„ The SA was now at the peak of its
power* it had fulfilled its function as "the Guard of the National
Revolution" which had "carried this revolution to victory«,"'
Its now legalized supreme authority found expression in the
Law for Safeguarding the Unity of Party rod State, according to
which the Chief of Staff of the SA entered the Reich Government us
a Minister, in order to "secure the closest cooperation bete/eon
the Party and SA authorities on the cne hand and the public
authorities on the other „"4
1° SA Sturmbannführer Schaefers Das Anti-BrfcUnbuch über das erste
deutsche Konzentrationslager. "Konzentrationslager Oranienburg. n
26 Bayer, D^e SA. ^oc,,cit.. p. 15.
3. Hitler, speech at Kiel, 7 Hay 1933 (quoted in Ihe Speeches of
Adolf Hitler, ed. N. H. Baynes, London-New York>1942, p. i8L).
4. Reichagaaetzblatt 1933, I, p. 10l6„
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