SA - Assault units of the National Socialist German Workers' Party - went down in German history, while their existence is surrounded by secrets and myths. Who were the attack aircraft - banal criminals, fighters for socialism, or Hitler's political soldiers? The German historian Walter Görlitz, who generally had a negative attitude towards the SA, gave them a very accurate definition - "new formations that served not the state, but the idea, a new socioreligious doctrine of salvation.."