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described in section 1. They are:: a. 1921.-1934: the SA as the chief
terroristic Nazi organization; b. 1934-1939? the SA as a political and
ideological training corps; e. 1939-1944* the SA as a para-military and
police organization„
a ° ^ZL-3,934., Nasi sources enphasize the character of the SA
as an absolutely reliable volunteer corps of militant fighters, resolved
to carry out the war for the "conquest of, tho street" openly, as a
irass organization, and with unconditional loyalty to the principles
and alma of the NSD&P. In outlining the principles for the organization
of the SA, Hitler stated that the work of the SA
"has to be clone, not in secret conventicles, but in enormous mass
demonstrationsf and ,.» by ,he conquest of the street9"
and that this work required
n a hundred thousand and i hundred thousand fanatical
fightei-s for our view of 11«W 1
The very size of the SA as a militant mass organization prevented it
fron remaining a secret association, and the mass organization of the SA
meant that
"the fight against the State of toda;r was tr.ken out of tho
atzaosphere of small actions of revenge ?md plotting and wa3
lifted up to the greatness of a we i-t^schauliche war of
destruction against Marxism and its creaturos. n<
The emphasis on tao "conquest of the street" indicates the real
function of tho SA during this period« it was a disciplined corps of
fanatical Nazi fighters,organized for terrorizing the opposition and
Ü Hitler. Stein Kampf, chapter U jloughton Mifflin edition p. 798).
2. ibiö., p. 803.
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