Der Fuehrer - Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) - Heiden

DEFEAT 453marks to the survivors of S.A. men shot down in battle for Adolf Hitler.The funds for all this had to be raised among the party masses; nomillionaire or any group of millionaires was rich enough to do morethan cover an occasional deficit for such a giant enterprise. There wasindeed a deficit which mounted dangerously; its source was the brownshirts and breeches which the S.A. men bought from the ordnancedepartment and took a long time in paying for. The longer Hitlerstruggled for power, the more the burden of debt grew; he would notforever be able to find the money to feed his unemployed S.A. men.'When you have power,' wrote Goebbels-Machiavelli in his diary, 'youcan get money enough. But then you no longer need it. If you haven'tgot power, you need money, but then you don't get it.' The fight for statepower became a fight for the state treasury.