 Many acts of violence would follow; the Potempa Murder was an early precursor.It led then President Paul von Hindenburg to suspect that the murder was symptomatic of how the Nazi Party operated.On the night of 9 August 9 1932, five uniformed Nazi Stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung) burst into the apartment of Konrad Pietrzuch, a Communist miner and trade unionist, in the Upper Silesian village of Potempa (now part of the rural community of Krupski Młyn in Poland) and beat him to death in the presence of his mother.