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care that even the drowsiest citizens had
to see at least the existence of a fighting troop."
The importance of the work of the SA in the early days of the Movement
was indicated by Goebbels in a speech which appeared in Das Archiv,
October 1935. This is our Document 3211-PS, Exhibit Number USA-419. It
is on the first page of the English translation:
"The inner-political opponents did
not disappear due to mysterious unknown reasons, but because the
Movement possessed a strong arm within its organization; and the
strongest arm of the movement is the SA. The Jewish question will not
be solved separately but by laws which we enact, for we are an
anti-Jewish government."
Specific evidence of the activities of the SA during the early period of
the Nazi movement, from 1922 to 1931, is found in a series of articles
appearing in Der SA-Mann entitled, "SA Battle Experiences
Which We Will Never Forget." Each of these articles is an account
of a street or a meeting-hall battle waged by the SA against a group of
political opponents in the early days of the Nazi struggle for power.
These articles demonstrate that during this period it was the function
of the SA to employ physical violence in order to destroy and subvert
all forms of thought and expression which might be considered hostile to
the Nazi aims or philosophy.
A number of such articles have been translated, and the titles are
sufficiently descriptive to constitute evidence of the activities of the
SA in the early stages of the movement. I should like to quote from a
few of these titles by giving the page reference of this big newspaper
volume.
Here is one of 24 February 1934, Page 4 — the title: "We
Subdue the Red Terror." From the 8th of September 1934, Page 12;
the article is entitled: "Nightly Street Battles on the Czech
Border." From 6th of October 1934, Page 5: "Street Battle in
Chemnitz." Another one of 20 October 1934, Page 7 — the title:
"Victorious SA." I will skip several of them. Here is one of
26 January 1935, Page 7 — the title: "The SA Conquers
Rastenburg." Another on 23 February 1935, Page 5: "Company 88
Receives Its Baptism of Fire." One of 20 October 1934, Page 7 —
the article is: "SA against Sub-humanity." Finally, I mention
the one of 10 August 1935, Page 10 — the title is: "The Blood
Sunday of Berlin." And then there is a portrait in the article of
11 September 1937, Page 1, which symbolizes the SA man as the master of
the streets.
For an example of the nature of these articles, one appeared in the
Franken edition of the SA-Mann for 30 October 1937, Page 3. It
is entitled: "9 November 1923 in Nuremberg," and I should like