Hitlers establishment of power

Question 1

How were the SA useful to hitler ?

Answer 1

SA violence and terror were vital weapons in the struggle eliminate opposition

Question 2

Once Hitler was in power, how did this affect the SA ?

Answer 2

Hitler used state resources to consolidate his power and rapidly expanded the SA.Grew from a membership of 500,000 in January 1933 to 3 million a year later.

Question 3

How did the SA gain legal authority

Answer 3

Another result of the Nazis being in power is the SA gained legal authority.In late February 1933 the SA merged with the Stahlhelm and became recognised as ‘ auxiliary police ‘.Orders were issued to the police forbidding them to interfere with SA activities

Question 4

Work of SA ?

Answer 4

SA unleashed a reign of terror on socialist and communist opponents. Using their newfound powers, the SA unleashed a sustained assault on trade union and KPD offices as well as the homes of the SA.
thousands of communists,socialisTs and trade unionists rounded up and imprisoned. By July 1933, 26,789 political prisoners arrested by SA