Of course, by that time I had distanced myself from them because our beliefs no longer matched, and talking with them about the great country that Hitler was going to create had become uncomfortable. So I put on the brown uniform of the SA and joined fellow Germans in doing everything we could to ensure that Hitler's dream of what Germany could be would become a reality in the near future.
One of the reasons that I and the rest of the SA admired Hitler so much was because of his childhood. He was frequently whipped by his father and mistreated, but he did not become defeated because of it; he instead grew stronger and more determined (Nardo, 2002). With that being the case, it was easy to see how the adversity that he would face as a leader would also help him to become stronger, making the country stronger as well. People who did not understand Hitler's philosophy like the SA often thought that he was cruel, but he was trying to help his beloved country recover from the loss in WWI, and from political and economic instability that had made Germany weaker than it ever had been on the international stage. He wanted to save his country and make it whole again, and I admired that. So did many other Germans, because the ranks of the SA were huge. We were all more rough-and-tumble than the SS, not as cultured, and we got away with more because of it.
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