 In 1932 the local paramilitary SA had already started to terrorise their political opponents.On the night of 31 July 1932 there was a bomb attack on the headquarters of the Social Democrats in Königsberg, the Otto-Braun-House.The Communist politician Gustav Sauf was killed; the executive editor of the Social Democratic newspaper ""Königsberger Volkszeitung"", Otto Wyrgatsch; and the German People's Party politician Max von Bahrfeldt were all severely injured.