Note 18
From Ernst Rohm by Joachim C. Fest— See further Notes

18 See Mein Kampf. This certainly did not prevent Hitler's swearing later at the Schweidnitz trial that SA stood for Schutzabteilung, 'Self-Defence Section'. On the exaggerations with which National Socialist propaganda, at Hitler's instigation, later embellished this meeting-hall battle, see Heinrich Bennecke, Hitler und die SA