Archive/File: imt/nca/nca-02/nca-02-15-criminality-04-07 Last-Modified: 1997/08/28 The issues of "Der SA-Mann" also contain many photographs and articles demonstrating SA participation in military exercise, including forced marching, battle maneuvers, obstacle runs, small calibre firing, and the like. Among these photographs and articles are the following: Each issue of "Der SA-Mann" contains advertisements for the sale of various items of military equipment, including uniforms, steel helmets, rifles, boots, grenades, field glasses, ammunition, etc. (See, for example, 30 January 1934, p. 16; and 9 March 1935, p. 16.) Picture of SA men marching in military formation executing "goose step," 14 April 1934, p. 8. Group of pictures showing SA Troops marching in military formations and in full pack and bearing flags being reviewed by Hitler. Title of page is "SA Marches into the New Year," 12 January 1935, p. 3. Photographs of uniformed SA Troops marching in streets of Saarbrucken with caption: "In the streets of free Saarbrucken thuds the marching steps of the SA," 9 March 1935, p. 3. Group of photographs entitled: "SA Brigade 6 marches for the German Danzig," 4 May 1935, p. 3. Article entitled: "Who fights against us we will defeat, who provokes us we shall attack" (with picture of SA men in military formation bearing caption: "We are a political ideological troop"), 13 July 1935, p. 1. Article entitled: "The SA is and remains the Shock Troop of the Third Reich" (with picture of Gruppenfuehrer reviewing SA men marching in uniform and in full pack, in military formation, 24 August 1935, p. 2. Article entitled: "SA Men at the heavy machine gun," 3 July 1936, p.14. Photograph of SA men in uniform and full pack on obstacle run, 29 August 1936, p. 7. Article entitled: "Fight, Fight, Fight" with subtitles: "Preparation of Francken Division for the the NS War Games" (with picture of SA men bearing arms), 26 June 1937, p. 4. Photograph of SA men bearing weapons, bearing caption: "Austria's SA: through battle, distress and persecution, to victory." Photograph bearing caption: "German-Austrian SA was armed in the hour of decision," 2 April 1938, p. 1. Photograph of SA men bearing arms on battle maneuvers, 19 August 1938, p. 8., bearing the caption: "The way to victory." Article entitled: "SA and the Wehrmacht" (with pictures of SA men on field maneuvers throwing hand grenades), 2 September 1938, p. 1. Photograph of SA men on field maneuvers, 9 September 1938,p.18. Photograph of SA men bearing arms in trenches, apparently on field maneuvers, 16 September 1938, p. 1. (Frankens-SA). Photographs of SA men marching under arms, and on the rifle range, 9/30/1938, p. 4. (Frankens-SA). [Page 162] Photograph of SA Regiment Feldherrnhalle marching in goose-step with rifles and steel helmets and with the Luftwaffe insignia of sovereignty on their uniform and helmets, 11 November 1938, p. 4. Photograph entitled "Regiment Feldherrnhalle was there", (referring to the incorporation of the Sudetenland), 14 October 1938, p. 6. Photograph bearing the caption: "Training with the KK Rifle. Something entirely new for the Sudeten German. Every SA man must be outstanding in marksmanship," 6 January 1939, p. 3. Article entitled: "The SA -- the forger of military power," with the subheading: "The SA as Bearer of the Premilitary Training," 27 January 1939, p. 1. Photograph of Von Brauchitsch (Wehrmacht) and Lutze reviewing the SA, 3 February 1939, p. 3. Photograph of SA on march with full pack and rifles. (Frankens-SA), 3 February 1939, p. 1. C. Cooperation with the Wehrmacht in Preparation for Aggression. Evidence of the SA's participation in the conspiracy is found in the care which was taken at all times to coordinate the military training program of the SA with the requirements of the Wehrmacht. As early as 1934, an SA memorandum provided that the SA chief of training and his subordinates should remain -- "*** in direct touch with the respective offices and sections of the Reich Defense Ministry." (2823-PS) The same memorandum recites that a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Wehrmacht was assigned to the SA with the duty of participating -- "*** in all questions regarding training and organization ***." (2823-PS) Another SA memorandum declared that: "***permanent liaison between the Reich Defense Ministry and the Supreme Commander of the SA *** has been assured." (2821-PS) Hitler's words regarding cooperation between Wehrmacht and SA were as follows: [Page 163] "The requirements of the Wehrmacht are to be taken into consideration in organization and training. "The Chief of Staff of the SA releases the required executionary directives in agreement with the Commander in-Chief of the Wehrmacht units. He alone is responsible for the fulfillment." (2383-PS) A speech by the Chief of Staff of the SA relating to the technical and specialized branches of the SA revealed that this opportunity for collaboration with the Wehrmacht in specialized military was utilized to the utmost: "In the course of this development also special missions for military betterment (program) were placed on the SA. The Fuehrer gave the SA the cavalry and motor training and called SA Obergruppenfuehrer Littmann as Reich Inspector with the mission to secure the *** recruits and requirements for the German Wehrmacht through the SA. In -close cooperation with parts of the Wehrmacht special certificates were created for the communication, engineer and medical units which, like the cavalry certificate of the SA, are valued as statement of preference for employment in said units." (3215-PS) The specialized training given SA members, in accordance with the requirements of technical branches of the Wehrmacht, is described by SA Sturmfuehrer Bayer as follows (2168-PS): "*** On one side the young SA man who enters the armed forces (Wehrmacht) from his branch, comes prepared with a multitude of prerequisites which facilitate and speed up training in technical respects; while on the other side those very soldiers, having served, who return out of the armed forces into the SA keep themselves, by constant practice, in a trained condition physically and mentally and impart their knowledge to their fellows. "Thus they contribute a considerable portion to the enhancement of armed strength (Wehrkraft) and armed spirit (Wehrgeist) of the German people." (2168-PS) And, with respect to the mounted or cavalry SA -- *** the SA each year is able to furnish many thousands of young trained cavalrymen to our Wehrmacht *** At present the SA cavalry has at its disposal 101 cavalry units in whose schools, year in and year out, young Germans who are obligated for military service receive the training which fits him for entrance into a section of troops which is of their own choosing." (2168-PS)
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