1933Why the SA
Ernst Roemhs speech, this time merged into a single file
identifier: WhytheSA_1
title: Why the SA
title: Why the SA
creator: Ernst Roehm
mediatype: Text
collection: opensource_media
date: 1933
year: 1933
subject: Nazism; fascism; paramilitary
licenseurl: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
publicdate: 2007-06-03 02:28:27
resource: Text
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
format: Text
updatedate: 2007-06-03 02:41:16
updatedate: 2008-04-01 23:29:25
updater: dudeman5685
updater: Diana Hamilton
curation: [curator]alexis@archive.org[/curator][date]20080207012225[/date][state]un-dark[/state]
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2007-06-03 02:40:05
Reviewer: dudeman5685
Subject: Why Upload this?
This is, to my knowledge, the only work of Ernst Roehms availible in English, distributed by an Anti-Semitic publishing house called Sons of Liberty.
The speech has much historical interest because it is an apologia of Roehms vision of the SA and its role in a future National Socialist state. If you know your history you will remember that this was the main sticking point between the factions in the Nazi party and the govt. that Hitler manipulated in order to better secure himself in power in 1934. One finds many secondary source explanations of Roemhs viewpoints, but very rarely primary ones, like this pamphlet here.
I would like to add that I hate nazism of any stripe, and am making this availible to the public to clarify history, not to advance an agenda.
