English Translation

44 The Weapons-4 was born from the spirit of the National Socialist movement, and especially from the Spirit, which was decisive for the attitude of the 4y-man of the wartime. Leaders of General 4 — above all four senior group leader Sepp Dietrich — were the first leaders of the weapons-4. For these armed and castrated units, the body-stand type "Adolf Hitler", as well as the first units of the Y-order force and the Skull Associations, arose from the extension of the tasks of the general 4: to protect the leader and his employees from the access of raw violence (hence protective relay). It also had to ensure the purity of the national socialist idea as the most precious treasure for the further development of our people's lives, to discover and make harmless all opponents of our worldview and their disruptive plans in time. The more extensive these tasks became with the seizure of power, the more urgent the leader had to have a particularly reliable and powerful force at his disposal for special effort. A new type of political, ideologically especially consolidated fighter was to be found, collected under special conditions of selection and by