Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Previously Storm Troop headquarters have been in Munich, home of Adolf Hitler and hatching ground of the Roehm Mutiny fortnight ago. Last week Munich's famed Brown House stood as empty as though a cyclone had swept through it. Chief of Staff Lutze reigned in Berlin and Adolf Hitler was rumored planning to make a clean sweep of non-Nazis when he took off at 4 p. m. in his giant tri-motor for Neudeck 250 miles away in East Prussia...
Spunky little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who rules Austria amid the incessant banging of Nazi bombs, heard himself flayed by radio from Munich last week as a coward...
...order of Chancellor Hitler the S. A. boys were to turn in their uniforms July 1 and take a month's vacation. Already on vacation was Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm at his rustic snuggery near Munich. But in Berlin his sub-comrades kept pestering the Chancellor with demands that he dissolve the rival Stahl helm. Despite the fact that Storm Troopers hooted at Stahlhelm Leader Seldte and stoned his bodyguards a few weeks ago the Storm Troopers based their demand on the obscure stabbing of one of their district leaders by a Stahlhelm official in Pomerania...
Taking off in the dead of night, Chancellor Hitler flew from Bonn to Munich where he arrived at 4 a. m. He accused Storm Troop leaders of treacherously plotting a coup against himself, brandished General Göring's proofs under their noses, flew into a passion and tore the Nazi insignia off their brown uniforms. S. S. troops with machine guns meanwhile bottled up the S. A. leaders in Chancellor Hitler's trap. Then leaping into a car the Chancellor dashed for queer Captain Roehm's luxurious snuggery...
Meanwhile Chancellor Hitler had telephoned from Munich to the Nazi Governor of Hanover, an apparently blameless young man with a good war record, Herr Viktor Lutze. "I appoint you to succeed Roehm!" barked the Chancellor into the telephone. "You are the new Storm Troop Chief of Staff...