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, for service in the Wehx^e^."^
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"Moreover, the SA has the t&3lc of training its units for their
utilization ($tnsafo) as a domestic-political fighting corps
and for practical service to people and state. n ^
The SA remained an organisation subordinated iranediately to Hitlorj
the Chief of Staff of the SA acted as deputy of the Fuhrer. 3 This
arrangement indicates that the Nazi leadership continued to regard the
Sa as an instrument of supreme Importance for the movements unconditional
loyalty to the Führer and unquestionable obedience to the principles .
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and policies of the NSDAP remainod the chief duties of every SA raan.
The official Handbuch' der SA, which \?as published in 1938,
is almost esxsluslvely filled v/ith detailed prescriptions for physical,
athletic, and pre-military training. In addition to these activities,
the SA was widely used for the numerous collections carried out by
the Nazi regime among the population (Winter Relief Work, clothing,
scrap, paper, and other collection*),
c 1939-19AA. With the Fflhgar Decree of 19 January 1939,
concentrating in the SA all pre-military and post-military training
and incorporating into the SA Wahroannschaften soldiers discharged
from active servie«, the SA entered a period of late revival.
In the course of the war, tlie function of pre- and post-military
training naturally assumed greater significance. However, this training
was only partly designed for purely military purposes „ The development
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3. 2b£d.., p. 358 ff.
A. See Handbuch der SA. loc. eit„, pp. 17-18, 63-75.
5o See sec. 1, above»
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