Politicheskie soldaty Gitlera - Semenov Konstantin Konstantinovich

SA- Assault Squads of the National Socialist German Workers' Party - have entered the history of Germany, and their existence is surrounded by mysteries and myths. Who were the stormtroopers - banal criminals, fighters for socialism or political soldiers of Hitler? The German historian Walter Gerlitz, who was generally negative about SA, gave them a very precise definition: "new formations that served not the state, but the idea, the new socio-religious doctrine of salvation..."