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chasing it fron the streets. The official SA historian admitted this
ain:
«Possession of the street is the key to the State power — the
SA marched and fought for this (goal)."!
The Horst Wegsei Song
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"Clear the streets for the Erown Battalions»..,
epitomised the terroristic function of the SA.
This terroristic function was carried out first of all by
strictly organized, uniformed, and partly armed contingents, varying
in strength from a hundred to many thousands, Such contingents attended
the Nazi rallies and demonstrations fjod engaged the opposing dijmocratie
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and anti-Nazi forces in regular battles. The first battles wore
described by Hitler himself in chapter XL of Sfein Kampf. With the
growing strength of the Nasi moveanent, the SA carried its activities
into the workers' districts of the large cities and undertook assaults
on newspaper offices, workers' houses, and on the residences of
particularly hated yrolitical opponents» In almost all these cases,
the SA justified its activities bj- explaining them as counter-
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measures against "Red" provocation: •
The second chief form of SA activity wa3 assault on political
opponents by small groups — aasailis which often resulted in actual
murders„ In brief, the tradition of political assassination initiated
by the Free Corps was continued by the SA, many of whose leaders, indeed,
2. ^'NSi^scx^tÄf ^'activities, which belonged to the
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