right - got the wrong year. I've spoken to some elder men years ago. They usually were very refraining regarding the time in question. But one day I had to honour a member of a club (then aged approc. 90) who told me: "Everybody was in the SA - they offered what we young guys wanted: music, parties, camping. And we didn't care about the politics". So maybe 3 million members is even too low ...
Thomas Am Mon, 2004-08-09 um 07.43 schrieb Howard Posner: > Roman Turovsky > > > SA vets have a reasonable shot themselves at being a persecuted minority (of > > sorts.....). They were gotten rid of rather quickly. > > A few hundred of the leaders were killed in June 1934. But there were > hundreds of thousands of storm troopers; I've seen estimates as high as 3 > million, Shirer says 2.5 million. Kristallnacht was November 1938. -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
