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Previously Storm Troop headquarters have been in Munich, home of Adolf Hitler and hatching ground of the Roehm Mutiny fortnight ago. Last week Munich's famed Brown House stood as empty as though a cyclone had swept through it. Chief of Staff Lutze reigned in Berlin and Adolf Hitler was rumored planning to make a clean sweep of non-Nazis when he took off at 4 p. m. in his giant tri-motor for Neudeck 250 miles away in East Prussia...
...chipper self. Since the duties of a German Vice Chancellor are even more nominal than those of a U. S. Vice President, Herr von Papen was in no hurry to have a new building found for his Vice Chancellory. He urbanely left his old offices to Storm Troop Chief Viktor Lutze who kept peppering brownshirt Storm Troopers every few hours with new orders. They must not wear their uniforms during July, must not assemble, must not question or dispute the Government's massacre methods in wiping out "the mutiny of a few Storm Troop leaders, a mutiny in which...
Meanwhile Chancellor Hitler had telephoned from Munich to the Nazi Governor of Hanover, an apparently blameless young man with a good war record, Herr Viktor Lutze. "I appoint you to succeed Roehm!" barked the Chancellor into the telephone. "You are the new Storm Troop Chief of Staff...
...Hitler then flew to Berlin. To the astonishment of correspondents, he alighted arm in arm with Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels whom they had supposed to be in hiding since he had been called "the brains of Roehm" and was rumored in Berlin to be the intellectual head of Storm Troop discontent...
These revealed orgies costing 30,000 marks per month at Berlin Storm Troop Headquarters, the hiring of expensive limousines with party funds and other extravagances which Adolf Hitler, a teetotaler, vegetarian and non-smoker ordered stopped. "In particular," enjoined gentle Adolf, "I would like every mother to be able to give her sons to the S. A. without fear that they would become more or less corrupted. I want to see the S. A. leaders men and not laughable monkeys...