Word: roehm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning to internal affairs, Orator Hitler shouted that there will be no "second"' or radical Nazi revolution. "The German revolution," he roared, "is concluded!" But to radical Nazis who may have plotted in the Roehm Mutiny or may still be involved in other Nazi conspiracies he gave this pledge: "I will not proceed on the principle of causing misled little fellows to be shot. ... I will throw the ringleaders to the ground...
...insults to Adolf Hitler or the German Government; 2) offenses against "the wealthy or prosperous," provided the crime did not originate from "convictions hostile to the race or state";* 3) crimes committed from "excessive zeal" to further Nazi purposes. To ease the plight of Nazi innocents caught in the Roehm Mutiny and not yet "purged" by shooting, "My Leader" especially decreed last week that all imprisoned mutineers shall have their cases "sympathetically re-examined...
...death for experimental purposes. In the same spirit of honest inquiry-and with perhaps as little tact-I would like to ask if TIME does not sometimes doctor its photographs in order to obtain humorous results. . . . The July 9 issue, under "Germany," carries a cut of traitorous Roehm which appears either doctored, or light-struck and deliberately used for that reason. The dead Nazi, while far from pleasant looking, was not deformed by a Cyrano nose as this picture suggests. It would almost seem as though the editors . . . had sought by fair means or foul to obtain a picture which...
Reader Lambert errs. The late Capt. Roehm lost the upper part of his nose in an early battle of the War. TIME never has "doctored" a news photograph, never will...
According to Chancellor Hitler he was and is the champion of the career Reichswehr generals and President von Hindenburg. The nefarious plotters, he said, included onetime Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, Reichswehr careerist par excellence, Captain Roehm and "a foreign diplomat." Simple Storm Troopers, declared the Chancellor, knew nothing of this plotted coup against the Reichswehr. They naively supposed that what was wanted was a "new and in this case a bloody uprising?'The Night of the Long Knives'?as it was gruesomely described...