Pfeffer von Salomon question
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Pfeffer von Salomon question
I have a question about the 1935 NARA photos below of Pfeffer von Salomon reviewing a march with Hitler. I am curious why he isn’t wearing a Party armband for this event…he seems “out-of-uniform.” I know that von Salomon resigned his post as Oberster SA-Führer 5 years earlier and he wasn’t expelled from the NSDAP until 1941, so why is he in complete SA uniform except for the armband?
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Re: Pfeffer von Salomon question
Same kind of photo, but in color :
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Hi,
after WWI he led the SA from 1925 till 1930. He was expelled from the party in 1941. He survived the war and died in 1968.
I wonder why or how he never wrote anything between 1945 and 1968 in order to tell his version of history and about who was Hitler.
Did he really write nothing ? No memoir, autobiography, anything else ?
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Hi,
after WWI he led the SA from 1925 till 1930. He was expelled from the party in 1941. He survived the war and died in 1968.
I wonder why or how he never wrote anything between 1945 and 1968 in order to tell his version of history and about who was Hitler.
Did he really write nothing ? No memoir, autobiography, anything else ?
Re: Pfeffer von Salomon question
In 2016 Wallstein Verlag published "Franz Pfeffer von Salomon Hitlers vergessener Oberster SA-Führer" by Mark Fraschka; this book is in German. I assume this is a biographical volume. I could find nothing written by Franz Pfeffer himself.
Does anyone have any response or comment on this thread's original question: "...why [Franz Pfeffer] isn’t wearing a Party armband for this event...?" This is an interesting question!
Br. James
Does anyone have any response or comment on this thread's original question: "...why [Franz Pfeffer] isn’t wearing a Party armband for this event...?" This is an interesting question!
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Re: Pfeffer von Salomon question
He survived the war and lived long after it, but didnt write anyhting... this is quite amazing.
I wrote a thread about it today in the forum, but it was erased...
Some say that he wrote some thing but that his papers were "lost".
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Re: Pfeffer von Salomon question
Hi, Michal.
I think that's his brother, Friedrich (Fritz). As far as I know, Franz never wore the insignia of an SA-Obergruppenführer. During Reichsparteitäge in Nürnberg, up to 1938, he wore his old Oberführer-style collar tabs.
But thank you for sharing these. I've seen the middle image but not the other two.
Best wishes,
~ Mike