Why should Hitler support the SA?

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Why should Hitler support the SA?

• Jon Tuck and Tom Mason

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Why should Hitler not support the army?

• Army only had 100,000 men.
• Many generals in the army disliked Hitler and the
  Nazis.
• They regarded Hitler as a lowly corporal with
  stupid ideas
• Armies loyalty to Hitler was not proven, where as
  the SA loyalty had been

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Why should Hitler support the SA?

• SA had loyally fought for Hitler to help him to
  come to power against Communists.
• SA also fought in 1923 Munich Putsch for Hitler.
• SA was much larger than the army with 2.5 million
  men.
• Rohm was an old, dear friend the Heydrich
  dossier sent to Hitler about Rohm was most likely
  manufactured evidence...

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Hitlers feelings for Rohm

• On the 1st of January 1934, Hitler wrote to the
  SA leader,
• Ernst Rohm
•             "I thank you my dearest Ernst Roehm,
  for the services which you have given to the
  National Socialist Movement and the German
  people, and to assure you how very grateful I am
  that I am able to call such men as you my friends
  and fellow fighters."