Period Book "Illustrierter Beobachter" - Special Edition "Die SA"

[ivbaust]

During my research project on the SA, I was able to acquire a complete special edition about the SA of the period journal "Illustrierter Beobachter" (Illustrated Observer).

It is a book and/or a larger magazine with approx. 130 pages and 300+ period photos about the SA. This special edition was distributed / shipped in a special envelope. Today the envelope is usually gone and IMO quite hard to find. I was lucky to get a complete example. However, unfortunately the envelope has suffered a little bit. The text on th envelope is a citation of AH and says "Everything, that are you, are you by me, and everything, that is me, I am by you".

The book describes and illustrates in various chapters the history, development, organisation, structure, individuals, institutions, etc. about the SA.

I´ve searched the forum to find if this book was described in a separate thread here at WAF, but I´ve found only some rough information about it, but no detailed information and/or pictures.

I will make some photos of it and post them later ... if there´s any interest.

Here some first photos.

[ivbaust]

The book removed from the envelope

[ivbaust]

Each book contained a colored photo of the SA Chief Viktor Lutze

[ivbaust]

This example even had a small booklet included with additional information of the special editions of the Illustrated Observer Magazine.

[ivbaust]

All together

[ivbaust]

Size comparison.

[ivbaust]

Here we go with the first photos of the book.

I´ve tried to translate the table of content:

• Roll of Honor of the one being murdered
• History of the SA
• SA in the cartoon
• The Chief of Staff
• The Supreme SA Command
• The Group Leaders
• Hermann Göring
• Standarte Feldherrnhalle
• SA at the State Party Rallies
• SA Saloons
• The Development of the Uniform
• The Mood of the SA
• Cavalry SA
• Marine SA
• Signals
• Pioneers
• K-9 unit
• Medics
• The Horst Wessel Squadron
• Relief Organization "Nothwest" builds the Wallberg Street
• The State Leader School
• The State Medic Schools of the SA
• The State Cavalry Leader School
• Retraining Camp
• On Adolf Hitler Scholarship Donation
• Storm "Support Platoon Germany"
• Order and Duty
• Spirit and Ability of Military Service
• The Thank Offering of the Nation
• SA settles
• The story of a SA man
• Ideological Deployment
• Practical Deployment
• From the cultural life of the SA
• Physical Exercises and Military Sports
• Storm Soldiers, like we are
• This is how a week of an SA leader looks
• Monuments of the SA
• SA Spirit
• The Path of Life of the German Human Being
• Achievements, no one speaks of
• Horst Wessel
• The Combat Gazette of the SA

[ivbaust]

Front title and first page

"Everything, what you are, you are by me, and everything, what I am, I am by you".

[ivbaust]

Roll of Honor of the ones being murdered

[ivbaust]

History of the SA

[ivbaust]

The early days with "Stoßtrupp Hitler" (first photo) and the first NSDAP office in the Schllingstraße in Munich (second photo).

Note ... on the first photo the third man from left in the front (with the eyeglasses) is Julius Schreck. On the second photo in the middle is the SA leader Franz Pfeffer von Salomon.

[ivbaust]

More photos from the "History of the SA"

[ivbaust]

SA in the cartoon

[ivbaust]

The Chief of Staff ... Viktor Lutze

[ivbaust]

Photos of Viktor Lutze during WW1