Whether or not Himmler read or knew much about Fouche, according to Otto Strasser he wrote a memorandum on the need for a Cheka-style secret police to monitor Party members and the SA, and convinced Hitler that the SS should perform the function, assuring him that they would be his most loyal guards: ‘They will be blindly devoted to you and continue the tradition of the Stosstrupp Hitler of 9 November 1923.’
