The SA also participated extensively in the Jewish persecutions conducted by the Nazis. The affidavit of Mr. Geist, former US Consul in Berlin (1759-PS) sets forth numerous instances of attacks upon Jewish-American citizens. Mr. Geist also declares that on the morning after the Nazis' acquisition of power, SA groups roamed the streets of Berlin seizing and beating Jewish persons and other political opponents of the Nazi Party. Thereafter SA men participated in many attacks of physical violence upon Jews, including Jewish-American citizens. In addition, uniformed SA men were employed as a display of threatening force in order to coerce Jewish persons to dispose of their property at greatly reduced values. (1759-PS)

SA participation in the Jewish program of 10 to 11 November 1938, is disclosed in a confidential report of an SA Brigade Fuehrer to his Group Commander, dated 29 November 1938 (1721-PS):

"TO: SA Group Electrical Palatinate (Kurpfalz) MANNHEIM

[Page 147]

"The following order reached me at 3 o'clock on 10 November 1938.

"On the order of the Gruppenfuehrer, all the Jewish synagogues within the 50th Brigade are to be blown up or set fire immediately."

"Neighboring houses occupied by Aryans are not to be damaged. The action is to be carried out in civilian clothes. Rioting and plundering are to be prevented. Report of execution of orders to reach Brigade Fuehrer or office by 8:30."

"I immediately alerted the Standartenfuehrer and gave them the most exact instructions; the execution of the order began at once."

"I hereby report that the following were destroyed in the area of *** "

"Standarte 115"

1. Synagogue at Darmstadt, Bleichstrasse Destroyed by fire
2. Synagogue at Darmstadt, Fuchsstrasse Destroyed by fire
3. Synagogue at Ober/Ramstadt Interior and furnishings wrecked
4. Synagogue at Graefenhausen Interior and furnishings wrecked
5. Synagogue at Griesheim Interior and furnishings wrecked
6. Synagogue at Pfungstadt Interior and furnishings wrecked
7. Synagogue at Eberstadt Destroyed by fire"

*******

"Standarte 145

1. Synagogue at Bensheim Destroyed by fire
2. Synagogue at Lorch in Hessen Destroyed by fire
3. Synagogue at Heppenheim Destroyed by fire
4. Prayer House Alsbach Destroyed by fire
5. Meeting room Alsbach Destroyed by fire
6. Synagogue at Rimbach Furnishings completely destroyed"

*******

"Standarte 168

1. Synagogue in Seligenstadt Destroyed by fire
2. Synagogue in Offenbach Destroyed by fire
3. Synagogue in Klein-Krotzenburg Destroyed by fire
4. Synagogue in Steinheim on the Main Destroyed by fire
5. Synagogue in Muehlheim on the Main Destroyed by fire
6. Synagogue in Sprendlingen Destroyed by fire
7. Synagogue in Langen Destroyed by fire

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8. Synagogue in Egelsbach Destroyed by fire"

*******

"Standarte 186

1. Synagogue in Beerfelden Blown up
2. Synagogue in Michelstadt Furnishings wrecked
3. Synagogue in Koenig Furnishings wrecked
4. Synagogue in Hoechst i/Odenwald Furnishings wrecked
5. Synagogue in Gross-Umstadt Furnishings wrecked
6. Synagogue in Dieburg Furnishings wrecked
7. Synagogue in Babenhausen Furnishings wrecked
8. Synagogue in Gross-Bieberau Destroyed by fire
9. Synagogue in Fraenk. Crumbach Furnishings destroyed
10. Synagogue in Reichelsheim Furnishings destroyed"

*******

"Standarte 221

1. Synagogue and Chapel in Gross Cerau Destroyed by fire
2. Synagogue in Ruesselheim Torn down and furnishings destroyed
3. Synagogue in Dornheim Furnishings destroyed
4. Synagogue in Wolfskehlen Furnishings destroyed

"The Fuehrer of Brigade 50 (STARKENBURG)
"/s/ [Illegible]
"Brigadefuehrer" (1721-PS)

In connection with the persecutions of the Jews, the SA again performed its propaganda function. It was the function of the SA to create and foster among the people an anti- Jewish spirit. Evidence of this function is to be found in the issues of "Der. SA-Mann". Article after article in this publication was devoted to propaganda designed to engender hatred toward the Jewish race. The nature of these articles is apparent from some of the titles:

Article entitled: "Finish up with the Jew", with subtitle:

[Page 149]

"We want no women to buy from Jews, and no Jewish girl friends," 27 July 1935, p.

Article entitled: "The Jewish World Danger," 2 February 1935, p. 5.

Article entitled: "Jewish Worries," (defending the practices of excluding Jews from certain resorts). 20 July 1935, p. 4.

Article entitled: "Jews aren't wanted Here," with pictures posted on outskirts of villages showing signs bearing the same message. (1 June 1935, p. 1.) The last portion of this article reads as follows:

"Since the day when National Socialism unrolled its flag and the march began for the Germany for Germans, culture battle also included the Jewry *** Let the Jew continue with his methods against New Germany. We know that at the end we will remain the victor for

Snake remains a snake, and
Jew remains a Jew! ***

*** "German women, if you buy from Jews and German girl, if you carry on with Jews, then both of you betray your German Volk and your Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, and commit a sin against your German Volk and its future! Then, also, outside of the last German village, the sign will stand 'Jews are not wanted here!' and then, finally, no German citizen will again cross the threshold of a Jewish store. To achieve this goal is the mission of the SA man as political soldier of the Fuehrer. Next to his word and his explanations stands his example".

Article entitled: "God Save the Jew," 17 August 1935, p. 1.

Photograph showing SA men gathered around trucks upon which are posted signs reading: "Read The Stuermer and you will know the Jew." 24 August 1935, p. 3.

Photograph apparently representing public SA rally showing large sign which reads: "He who knows a Jew knows a devil," 24 August 1935, p.

Article entitled: "The Face of the Jew" (with portrait of a Jew holding the hammer and sickle), 5 October 1935, p. 6.

Article entitled: "Jews, Blacks and Reactionaries," 2 November 1935, p. 2.

Article entitled: "The Camouflaged Benjamin -- Jewish Cultural Bolshevism in German music," 23 November 1935, p. 2.

Article entitled: "The Jewish Assassination," 15 February 1936, p. 1.

Article entitled: "Murder -- The Jewish Slogan," 4 April 1936, p. 11.

Series of articles entitled: "The Jewish Mirror." Eight weekly installments beginning 22 May 1936, p. 17.

Series of articles entitled: "Gravediggers of World Culture," beginning 5 December 1936, p. 6 and continuing weekly to 13 March 1937.

Article entitled: "Rumania to the Jews?" 2 January 1937, p. 6.

Article entitled: "Bismarck's Position on Jews," 2 January 1937, p. 7.

Article entitled: "Jewry is a Birth Error," 13 February 1937, p. 5.

Article entitled: "The Protection of the German Blood," 24 April 1937, p.

Article entitled: "Crooked Ways to Money and Power," 24 April 1937, p. 1.

Article entitled: "The Camouflage of Jewry -- Beginning or End?" 22 May 1937, p. 14.

Article entitled: "How come still German Jews?" 18 June 1938, p. 2.

Article entitled: "Westheimer Jew Servants," 22 January 1938, p. 2.

Article entitled: "The Poor Jew -- Well, Well!" 19 March 1938, p. 15.

Article entitled: "Jewish Methods, Churchly Parallel," 9 September 1938, p. 4.

Article entitled: "Jews and Free Masons," 13 January 1939, p. 15.

Article entitled: "Friends of the World Jewry -- Roosevelt and Ickes," 3 February 1939, p. 14.

The circulation of these articles was not intended to be confined to members of the SA. On the contrary, the plan was to educate the members of the SA with this philosophy, and for the SA in turn to disseminate it into the minds of the German people. This fact is demonstrated in the introduction to a series of anti-Jewish articles entitled "Gravediggers of World Culture," which began in the issue of 5 December 1936, at page 6. this introduction stated in part as follows:

"We suggest that the comrades especially take notice of this series of articles and see that they are further circulated." (3050-A-E-PS)

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