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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.

One of the most popular reasons for joining the SA and for backing Hitler, though, was financial. There were ideas expressed in this...

Like a lot of people in Germany, I was struggling at the time with little to eat and a job that was going nowhere. Many people I knew had no jobs at all. The Nazi party promised to end unemployment and to avoid inflation. There would be a rearmament of the country and an expansion of consumer goods production. In short, everyone would have what they needed. They could eat and they could work and be paid for it, and everyone would work together for the common good of their country and their fellow Germans.
The desire to have a strong country and a master race of people was very important to me, but it was more important that I have a job and a roof over my head and enough to eat. I felt like Hitler could give me those things, but instead of just sitting back and letting him, I should go and fight for what I believed in and for what he believed in. That's why I supported Hitler, and that's why I joined the SA. Of course, it all fell apart. Other countries had problems with what he was doing, and when Germany invaded Poland another war broke out in which Hitler was finally destroyed, along with his dreams for what Germany could have been.

Bibliography

Dufner, a. (2003). Rise of Adolf Hitler. Greenhaven Press

Gogerly, L. (2003). Adolf Hitler. Heinemann/Raintree.

Nardo, D. (2002). Adolf Hitler. Lucent Books.

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Dufner, a. (2003). Rise of Adolf Hitler. Greenhaven Press

Gogerly, L. (2003). Adolf Hitler. Heinemann/Raintree.

Nardo, D. (2002). Adolf Hitler. Lucent Books.
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