2. In order to safeguard the Storm Detachment against any
tendency towards secrecy, not only must the uniform be such that
it can immediately be recognized by everybody, but the large
number of its effectives show
the direction in which the
Movement is going and which must be known to the whole
public. The members of the Storm Detachment must not hold
secret gatherings but must march in the open and thus, by their
actions, put an end to all legends about a secret organization. In
order to keep them away from all temptations towards finding an
outlet for their activities in small conspiracies, from the very
beginning we had to inculcate in their minds the great idea of the
Movement and educate them so
thoroughly to the task of
defending this idea that their horizon became enlarged and that
the individual no longer considered it his mission to remove from
circulation some rascal or other, whether big or small, but to
devote himself entirely to the task of bringing about the
establishment of a new National Socialist People's State. In this
way the struggle against the present State was placed on a higher
plane than that of petty revenge and small conspiracies. It was
elevated to the level of a spiritual
struggle on behalf of a
philosophical war, for the destruction of Marxism in all its
shapes and forms.
3. The form of organization adopted for the Storm Detachment,
as well as its uniform and equipment, had to follow different
models from those of the old Army. They had to be specially
suited to the requirements of the task that was assigned to the
Storm Detachment.
These were the ideas I followed in 1920 and 1921. I endeavoured
to instil them gradually into
the members of the young
organization. And the result was that by the midsummer of 1922
we had a goodly number of formations which consisted of a
hundred men each. By the late autumn of that year these
formations received their distinctive uniforms. There were three
events which turned out to be of supreme importance for the
subsequent development of the Storm Detachment.
1. The great mass demonstration
against the Law for the
Protection of the Republic. This demonstration was held in the
late summer of 1922 on the Königsplatz in Munich, by all the
patriotic societies. The National Socialist Movement also
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