Word: roehm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knife Night. For the next hour Chancellor Hitler's address rambled darkly among the alleged plots of the men shot by his orders. Tears streamed down his face as he told of a five-hour soul struggle between himself and Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm. "I adjured him for the last time voluntarily to abandon this madness. . . . The result of our conversation, however, turned out to be that Roehm, realizing he in no circumstances could count on me for his scheme, started preparations to eliminate me personally." The scheme (and Herr Hitler's allusions to it were maddeningly...
...school Economist Dr. Schmitt is secretive about whether he is yet a Nazi. He is famed for the quiet way in which for months he has shielded Jewish businessmen whenever possible and generally run the Ministry of Economics on sane, rational lines which made him hated by Captain Ernst Roehm and other "Nazi Bolsheviks" now safely massacred. Last week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures ... to improve German business or to prevent damage to the nation's economic structure. . . . The measures taken may be contrary...
...violation of Adolf Hitler's promise to Benito Mussolini to keep Nazi hands off Austria (TIME, June 25). But Der Führer apparently found it necessary to have an anonymous speaker explain to the Austrian people just how right he was to put down the "Roehm Mutiny" by bloody executions...
...telling involved such a rehash of queer Captain Roehm's unnatural orgies that next day Austrian Heimwehr Commander Prince von Starhemberg retorted: "The Austrian Government cannot remain unmoved when a version of events is broadcast over German radios which is the most unappetizing and dirtiest thing ever broadcast in the German language. Naziism is a version of Bolshevism! I know the present leaders of Germany personally. I know they are incapable of erecting a German system in Germany. Austrians, stand firm! Austria is destined to be the savior of Germanism...
Close-lipped Chancellor Dollfuss remained grimly silent but his official Wiener Zeitung roundly declared: "No reasonable observer of German events believes in the official version that Captain Roehm and his accomplices were just about to launch an armed revolt. It is unthinkable that an experienced soldier like Captain Roehm would spend the last hours before the outbreak of a revolt indulging in orgies in an obscure villa without even guarding its doors...