Hitler at a march-past of the purged SA in Nurem­berg, Sep­tem­ber 1935. (Stand­ing sec­ond from left, Her­mann Göer­ing.) By then the SA was los­ing pow­er and influ­ence. Its num­bers were more than halved by 1938. (Charles Rus­sell Col­lec­tion, Nation­al Archives and Records Admin­is­tra­tion, pub­lic domain)