Word: roehm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thyssen became well acquainted with Hitler, but not intimate. Once Hitler, Hess and the malodorous Captain Roehm slept at Thyssen's father's house. In 1932 Thyssen brought Hitler to address the Industry Club of Dusseldorf. The assembled magnates were impressed when Hitler pontificated: "The economic parallel of political democracy is Communism...
...elaborate system of training for leadership was inaugurated when the first of 32 schools, each to enroll 4,000 prospective little Fuhrers, was opened. Since 1937 all these schools have been named after Adolf Hitler, including one first named for the late youth-loving Ernst Roehm. There are also three Ordensburgen (Citadels of the Nazi Order) where, surrounded by Germanic mysticism and medieval trappings, the higher education proceeds. Finally there is the postgraduate Führerschule...