Göring was appointed Prussian Minister of the Interior (not Reich/national Minister of the Interior, which was Wilhelm Frick). His role was specific to Prussia — Germany's largest state — not the entire country. He was also initially an acting commissar before being confirmed permanently in April 1933. The claim conflates a Prussian role with a national one.

Every major fact-checker and Holocaust scholar agrees this is the opposite of what Göring did. Rather than defunding police, Göring expanded them — replacing police chiefs with SA/SS loyalists, creating the Gestapo, and deputizing paramilitary forces as auxiliary police. The Nazis centralized and grew police power dramatically. They did dismantle police unions, but not departments.

Göring did not sideline police to protect the Brownshirts. He actually integrated SA and SS members into the police as auxiliary officers. Police were directed to cooperate with the SA, not to stand aside from them. The SA was effectively fused with law enforcement, not shielded from it.

The SA (Brownshirts) did engage in widespread violence including riots, beatings, arson, and killings of political opponents and Jews. The USHMM and Britannica extensively document SA violence against political opponents, ransacking offices, torture, and murder both before and after Hitler's chancellorship.

SA violence did play a role in electoral intimidation, especially during the 1932 Reichstag elections. However, by the time Hitler became chancellor in January 1933, democratic elections were essentially over — the last contested federal election was March 1933, after which Germany became a dictatorship. The meme implies this was Göring's intent *as interior minister*, but the SA's election-swaying role largely predated that appointment.

The claim traces to a letter to the editor published in a local 'Our Town' style newspaper. The original sourcing is a single anonymous reader submission with no citations or scholarly basis. It was subsequently amplified widely on social media without any new evidence or verification.