It wasn't just "brawling rabble." Roehm considered homosexuality the highest form of masculinity, and his SA was basically one giant fagfest. He wanted to put the SA at the head of the Army specifically to make the Wehrmacht gay, inspire all the soldiers to be more gay, and make gayness the apotheosis of the Teutonic warrior spirit.
I remember reading about how the pre-WW1 German Govt was infested with faggots, the Kaiser was a fag most of his advisors were fags and a lot of his generals were fags, there was a general who danced in a tutu for all the other generals at some big retreat and died of a heart attack, there's a reason why sodomy was called the German Vice by everyone who wasn't German.
