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will of the Führer stands as a
guarantor of the National Socialist revolution before the gates of
power and will remain standing there at all times. For gigantic
missions still await fulfillment which would not be thinkable without
the presence and the active co-operation of the SA.
"What has been accomplished up till now, the taking over of the
power in the State and the ejection of those elements which are
responsible for the pernicious developments of the postwar years as
bearers of Marxism, liberalism, and Capitalism, are only the
preliminaries, the springboard, for the real aims of National
Socialism.
"Being conscious of the fact that the real National Socialist
construction work would be building in an empty space without the
seizure of power by Adolf Hitler, the Movement and the SA man as the
fighting bearer of its will, primarily have directed all of their
efforts thereupon, to achieve the platform of continued striving and
to obtain the foundation or the realization of our desires ...
"Out of this comes the further mission of the SA for the
completion of the German revolution: First, to be the guarantor of the
power of the National Socialist State against all attacks from without
as well as from within; second, to be the high institute of education
of the people for the living National Socialism."
The function of SA as the propagandist of the Party was more than a
responsibility which SA took unto itself. It was the responsibility
recognized by the law of Germany. From Document 1395-PS, which is the
copy of the law entitled, "Law on Securing the Unity of Party and
State," which I have referred to before — and it was
promulgated by the Reich Cabinet in 1933 — I desire to read Article
3, on Page 1 of the English translation:
"The members of the National
Socialist German Labor Party and the SA, including their subordinate
organizations, as the leading and driving force of the National
Socialist State, will bear greater responsibility toward the Führer
people, and State. In case they violate these duties they will be
subject to special jurisdiction by Party and SA. The Führer may
extend these regulations in order to include members of other
organizations."
Thus were
the SA members the ideology bearers of the Nazi Party-the soldiers of an
idea-to use the expression employed by the Nazi writers. And permit me
to emphasize that the SA was the propagandist agency, the principal
agency employed by the conspirators to disseminate their fanaticism
among the people of Germany.