If, then, the Storm Detachment may be neither a military organization nor a secret society, it must be evolved under the following principles :
- Its training must be carried out not on military principles, but from the point of view of what is best for the Party. Seeing that its members must be made fit in body, store must be set not on drill, but on training for sports. I have always considered boxing and ju-jitsu more important than mediocre training in marksmanship.
- In order to prevent the Storm Detachment from assuming any character of secrecy, not only must the uniform be universally recognized, but also the impor¬ tance of its position must point out the road it must take so as to be of most use to the Movement, and that road must be universally known. It must not work by secret means.
- The formation and organization of the Storm Detachment must not be a copy of the old Army as regards uniform and equipment, but must be chosen so as to be suitable to the tasks it has before it.
There were three events which turned out to be of great importance for the later development of the Storm Detachment.
- The great general demonstration by all the patriotic societies in the late summer of 1922 on the Konigsplatz in Munich against the Law for the Defence of the Republic. The procession of the Party, in which the National Socialist movement took a part, was led by six Munich companies, followed by the sections of the political Party. I myself had the honour of addressing the multitude, which amounted to sixty thousand people, as one of the speakers. The arrange¬ ments were a tremendous success, because, in spite of all threats from the Reds, it was proved, for the first time, that nationalist Munich was able to parade in the streets.