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Toward Power. Himmler's zeal caught the eye of Nazi leaders. Gregor Strasser, then an important Hitler lieutenant, called Himmler to Munich to serve as his secretary. Kurt Ludecke, in I Knew Hitler, quotes Strasser: "[Himmler] sees in every creature who doesn't 'think' Nazi a Jew or a Jew serf, a Jesuit or a Free-Mason. He's very ambitious, but I won't take him along-he's no world beater." Nine years later, Himmler had Strasser shot...
...heard how you slaughtered the Socialists in East Prussia, and the first thing you knew you had a budget of $150,000 a year and lots of women and a big car. But I must say you paid off. It was you, wasn't it, who killed Gregor Strasser? And you who did the stool-pigeoning in the blood purge that sent Roehm and those other friends of Hitler down here...
...execution warrants for the 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...
...several promotions as an officer, was cashiered when a drunken brawl over a woman reached the courts. Then he entered the Nazi movement, looked about for a chance to rise. A chance appeared-blackmail. Learning that a Prussian official named Koch was in correspondence with the dissident Gregor Strasser, Heydrich courted Koch's wife and stole the letters. Armed with these, he extorted a recommendation to Himmler, who gave him a post with the Munich Elite Guard. Thereafter his rise was rapid. Just before the war insiders estimated that Heydrich grafted $150,000 a year, spent it mostly...
...Grand Rapids Brass Co. makes refrigerator and furniture hardware, has cut down from three shifts to one, faces complete shutdown as zinc rationing tightens. Its general manager, Samuel Strasser, has been to Washington for defense business, has written to hundreds of prime contractors. Only result: an invitation from Detroit's Defense Contract Service office to bid on two British fuses. Yet the company has 200 machine tools (only eight of them usable for the fuses), a trained engineering staff, 16 tool & die makers, plenty of plant space for defense work...