Word: roehm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler was, until last week, the Gentle Dictator. The accepted Brown House axiom "Once your friend. Der Führer is always your friend!" remained a potent Storm Troop recruiting slogan. One had only to scan the greedy, sensual, plug-ugly face of Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm; one had only to reflect that all Germany knew of his bull-like philandering with effeminate young men (TIME, March 20, 1933), to decide that since Chancellor Hitler stomached Captain Roehm there was probably no comrade he would not stomach. Historically last week Adolf Hitler retched at last...
...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...
...want Bergner! We don't want Jewish actresses-the Judah of Paris!" More eggs spattered on placards and against the lights. Finally, just when it looked as if the affair would turn into one of the worst riots of the Third Reich. Nazi Commander Ernst Roehm of the Berlin Storm Troops persuaded the mob to quiet down. Reenforcements of police blocked the street at both ends, dispersed the crowd before the audience, which waited inside ten minutes to cheer Cinemactress Bergner, emerged. Next day the real significance of the disturbance became apparent. Catherine the Great, which had been passed...
...present confusion in the minds of the Nazi viceroys as to which of the temperamental Hitler hierarchy to take orders from was settled at the same time. Neither club-footed Paul Joseph Goebbels, bull-necked General Göring nor strange Captain Roehm will command them, now sole rulers of the individual provinces. Their orders will be laid down by Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick...
...retains some grip on the State was seen when he appointed Lieut.-General Baron von Fritsch, an army officer of the old school, to be Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, thus spiking rumors that the German Army would be turned over to that arrant Nazi queer, Captain Ernst Roehm, Generalissimo of Storm Troops...