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Leaflet Promoting the Propaganda Book ”The SA Marches” in Nazi Germany upon Hitler's Rise to Power - Promotional leaflet distributed by the Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft publishing house in Stuttgart for the propaganda book ”SA marschiert” (”The SA Marches”) by Wulf Bley. Stuttgart, 1933. The leaflet opens with a striking title page featuring an image of the book's cover, with a dramatic photograph of a parade of the Nazi Storm Troopers (SA) carrying swastika flags, accompanied by the description ”The Life and Struggle of the Brown Battalions”. On its inner pages, the leaflet presents an extensive account glorifying the role of the SA as the vanguard of the Third Reich and as the most distinctive expression of the National Socialist idea, while surveying their importance in the political struggle against the Weimar Republic and Marxism since the days of the 1923 putsch: ”Adolf Hitler's new and ingenious creation - the 'political soldier' as the vanguard of the Third Reich, and thus the SA as the tangible realization and supreme expression of the National Socialist idea - was demonstrated vividly for the first time. For in this way the SA became the vital herald of National Socialism, thereby paving the way for it in the struggle against the reaction in November 1923.” Alongside the text is a photograph of Adolf Hitler attending a rally in Bad Harzburg, facing members of the organization giving him the Nazi salute. The leaflet notes that the book contains high-quality two-tone photographs documenting Hitler, Ernst Röhm, and Hermann Göring, alongside photographs of mass rallies, the organization's parade at the Brandenburg Gate on the eve of the seizure of power, and labor camps. The back of the leaflet is devoted to an official order form (Bestell-Liste), divided into a bulk-order section and an individual-order section intended to be sent directly to the publisher. The SA (Nazi Storm Troopers) played a central role in the Nazi seizure of power, and the Party invested enormous propaganda efforts in creating a positive and popular public image for them. These units were established as the Nazi Party's strong-arm wing and originally served as political thugs whose role was to secure Party rallies, disrupt gatherings of political opponents (primarily Communists and Socialists), and impose terror in the streets. However, in order to appeal to the general public and whitewash their violent past, the Nazi Party began constructing a narrative around them as ”freedom fighters” and idealists fighting for the nation. Nazi propaganda portrayed SA members as ”political soldiers” motivated by self-sacrifice, devotion, and love of the Fatherland. They were presented as defenders of the public against the ”Communist threat” and as those bringing order and security during a period of economic and social anarchy. In addition, the regime made extensive use of visual and popular culture: spectacular street marches in brown uniforms, mass gatherings, marching bands, and the involvement of SA members in public relief and welfare initiatives. The propaganda apparatus flooded the market with popular literature, photographic albums (such as SA marschiert), and films that portrayed SA members not as lawbreakers but as vigorous, upstanding young men who constituted the nucleus of the new German ”national community”. [4] pages. Minor tear at the lower right. Good condition.