‘Saalschacht’, by Felix Albrecht[/caption]"The dance had not yet begun when my Stormtroopers - for so they were called from this day on - attacked. Like wolves they flung themselves in packs of eight or ten again and again on their enemies, and little by little actually began to thrash them out of the hall. After only five minutes I hardly saw a one of them who was not covered with blood. How many of them I only came really to know on that day; at the head my good Maurice, my present private secretary Hess, and many others, who even though gravely injured themselves, attacked again and again as long as their legs would hold them. For twenty minutes the hellish tumult lasted, but then our enemies, who must have numbered seven and eight hundred men, had for the most part been beaten out of the hall and chased down the stairs by my men numbering not even fifty. Only in the left rear corner of the hall a big group stood its ground and offered embittered resistance. Then suddenly two shots were fired from the hall entrance toward the platform, and wild shooting started. Your heart almost rejoiced at such a revival of old war experiences."
Adolf Hitler, MEIN KAMPF
***The NSDAP held a large public meeting in the Munich Hofbräuhaus on November 4, 1921, which attracted many Communists and other enemies of National Socialism. After Hitler had spoken for some time, the meeting erupted into a mêlée in which a small company of SA thrashed the opposition. Fewer than fifty of the Turn-und Sportabteilung defeated more than 400 demonstrators against Hitler and the NSDAP. The NSDAP called this event the Saalschlacht ("meeting hall battle"), and it assumed legendary proportions in SA lore with the passage of time. Thereafter, the group was officially known as the Sturmabteilung.
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