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In the early 30s, the SA were becoming both a annoyance and a embarrassment to the Nazi leaderships. Not only were the SA acting like ill-disciplined thugs (getting into drunken brawls, harassing innocent people, extorting those same people, etc) but members of the SA began endorsing Marxist-style ideology, their justification being the socialist aspects of National Socialism.

Members of the SA would talk openly about a 'Second German Revolution' where they could acquire their own share of Germany's wealth and take over from the army, with the SA leadership advocating for the complete absorption of the army into the SA. Max Heydlebreck, a SA leader in Rummelsburg, even said the following
"Some of the officers of the army are swine. Most officers are too old and have to be replaced by young ones. We want to wait till Papa Hindenburg is dead, and then the SA will march against the army",


In January 1934, Ernst Rohm presented Minister of Defence Wernor von Bloomberg with a memorandum proposing that the SA become the new official German army, with the Reichswehr acting as training adjunct. As a sidenote, the SA, at the beginning of the year, had a manpower of over three million men. The Reichswehr was still constrained by the limited manpower of 100,000 as mandated by the Treaty of Versailles.

On February 28th, Hitler met with the leaders of the SA and the SS. During this meeting, Rohm was forced to acknowledge the supremacy of the Reichswehr over the SA. Hitler then declared that the SA would be an auxiliary to the Reichswehr. After Hitler and most of the Reichswehr officers had left, Rohm denounced Hitler, declaring the following.

" "What that ridiculous corporal says means nothing to us. I have not the slightest intention of keeping this agreement. Hitler is a traitor, and at the very least must go on leave...If we can't get there with him, we'll get there without him."

On June 4th, Hitler and Rohm had another meeting. Hitler requested that Rohm go on leave and put the SA on leave for the month of July. By the end of June, the death lists for Operation Hummingbird (the Night of the Long Knives) would be drawn up and the operation itself would be enacted, leading to a official death toll of 85, but a independently estimated death toll of over 1,000. 200 of which included mostly members of the SA, including Ernst Rohm himself.

What if in between February and June, the SA attempted to enact their 'Second German Revolution' through violent means and attempted to overthrow the government? What would be the repercussions if it failed?
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