Two things, however, can be said with certainty: the SA, now a huge, heterogeneous and generally discontented army of 4 million, threatened the hereditary leadership of the Army, the Junker landowners, the bureaucracy and the heavy industrialists with a continuation of the revolution – or, as they termed it, ‘the second revolution’ – to complete the Machtergreifung by toppling these ‘reactionary’ groupings, whose creature they believed Göring to be; as indeed he was. The other certainty is that everything Göring learned was immediately made available to Himmler and Heydrich.
