A chance meeting on Potsdamer Straße
Out of work and walking the streets of Berlin, Schulz accepts a cigarette from a stranger who wants more than a conversation. Wilfrid Bade uses this worker’s story to take the reader into the world of the SA and the Berlin Nazi Party. First published in 1933, the narrative presents recruitment, comradeship and political violence from the movement’s own viewpoint.
Inside the book
- Schulz’s unemployment and his encounter with a party recruiter.
- Meetings, street confrontations, demonstrations and clashes with opponents.
- The campaign’s treatment of sacrifice, political martyrdom, elections and victory.
This edition
Antelope Hill Publishing paperback, translated and annotated by Theodor Runen. The original German title is Die SA erobert Berlin.