From the budgetary matters of the Reich alone, if from no other source, the members of the Cabinet, each year of the Nazi regime, were of necessity informed to a very extensive degree on all matters that were going on in Germany. They knew about the concentration camp system because they voted the money for maintenance of concentration camps, and because their ministers inspected these camps. They knew about the plans for aggressive war because they laid the legislative groundwork for the war economy. They knew about the forced labour of prisoners of war in armament industries because they planned it even in advance of war. They prepared the political plans for the entire programme of aggression and of aggrandizement.
Planning requires consultation, and consultation imparts knowledge.
The duties and activities of the SA in fighting in the streets, abusing political opponents, and in chastising Jews, are stated in every issue of those publications. The SA participated in election proceedings, in the plan to set fire to the Reichstag, in anti-Jewish pogroms and boycott activities. Its activities were widespread and well known and its criminality was open and notorious. Much of this infamy was commonly known throughout the world. Everyone who entered these organizations as a member knew of such excesses.