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...Blood Purge of June 30, 1934 were signed in the clear, steady hand of Reinhard Heydrich. Sending two of his lieutenants to keep tabs on the Munich murders, Heydrich supervised the Berlin end of the massacre, found time to take personal care of Gregor Strasser, firebrand adherent of the Roehm rebels...
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...
Almost as if it wanted the case closed quickly, Berlin sent word that "authorized sources" considered the crime personal, not political. Sniped Walter Winchell: "The murder . . . will be traced to the jealousy of his dearest Roehm mate...
...affair. All was far from well in self-encircled Germany last week, and in the beer-hall gathering there were old-line Nazis, bred on anti-Communist doctrine and bitter about the Russian pact; ambitious, frustrated Party chiefs; veterans still rankling over such ruthless purges as that of Ernst Roehm...