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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...
...proofs under their noses, flew into a passion and tore the Nazi insignia off their brown uniforms. S. S. troops with machine guns meanwhile bottled up the S. A. leaders in Chancellor Hitler's trap. Then leaping into a car the Chancellor dashed for queer Captain Roehm's luxurious snuggery...
According to official communiques there was no one in bed with Captain Roehm when Chancellor Hitler burst in, but in the adjoining bedroom Nazi Police Chief Edmund Heines of Breslau was nabbed with a young storm trooper between the sheets. "Certain sights were disclosed in the seizing of the rebels" read the communique "so pitiful that all feelings of compassion must end. . . . Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm's well known unhappy malady was gradually becoming unbearable, driving him into severest conflicts with his own conscience. . . . Der Führer has ordered this plague ruthlessly stamped...
...stamping out which followed scores of Storm Troop leaders, brownshirt potentates whose word has been law in their bailiwicks, were either shot by firing squads or were left alone in prison with a revolver which they used to commit suicide. The chancellor tried his hardest to make Col. Roehm shoot himself, twice sent him a pistol which came back with the defy, "If I am shot Hitler will have to do it himself...