[JoeFromSidney]

Jut from this essay, you'd never know that Hitler was a National Socialist and that Mussolini was a former editor of a socialist newspaper, who gave up on the Socialist Party and started his own, in order to achieve the goals of the Socialists.

[dfwgator]

Hitler was more pragmatic than the other leading Nazis, who were more socialist, especially those in the SA....but Hitler needed the industrialists to build his war machine, and he needed to get their support....one of those conditions was to get rid of the SA.