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Ernst Roehm

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Ernst Roehm , 1887-1934, German National Socialist leader. An army officer in World War I, he met (1919) Adolf Hitler , whose political career he helped to launch. Roehm organized the storm troops ( Sturmabteilung, or SA), the militia of the National Socialist (Nazi) party. The SA's role in the National Socialist movement provoked conflict between Roehm and Hitler, who wanted the SA to be an instrument of the Nazi party, rather than Roehm's private army. Roehm was imprisoned briefly for his participation in the abortive "beer-hall putsch" (1923). After his release conflict with Hitler... Read more

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Heinrich Himmler
...Munich and then chief of the political police throughout Bavaria. After the party purge of June, 1934, which eliminated Ernst Roehm , head of the SA, or Nazi militia, Himmler's SS became the major police organ of the state. In 1936, Himmler was named... Read more

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	Bent straight: the destruction of self in Martin Sherman's Bent.(Critical Essay) ; ...purge, Hitler rid himself of Ernst Roehm, the controversial and confrontational...to convince the Fuhrer that Roehm was planning a military action against him. Although Roehm's organization had proven...unauthorized acts of aggression. Roehm, therefore, beca me expendable...homosexual ... Read more
	Shot in the dark ; A small point of pedantry, but Ernst Roehm was not, I believe, shot in bed at the Hanselbauer Pension Bad Weissee with his driver (Review, June 24) but arrested there on... Read more
	The lessons of history.(LETTERS) ; ...hear how you thought the Democrats were getting ready to throw Gen. David Petraeus under the bus, just as Hitler did to Ernst Roehm and his SA cohorts to mollify the German Army and the expanding SS. But to my surprise, the only historical fact in... Read more
	Agents provocateurs: governments around the world have been caught using undercover operatives to provoke national incidents and sway public opinion.(CONSPIRACY THEORIES) ; ...which he wiped out his erstwhile friend Ernst Roehm (who had become a competitor) and the top leadership of Roehm's brownshirted storm troopers. Using his own agents within Roehm's organization, Hitler fabricated evidence... Read more
	Hitler was gay, claims historian ; ...including the Stormtroopers chieftain, Ernst Roehm, and Rudolf Hess. Roehm died during...Iron Cross First Class. He names Ernst Schmidt, a fellow soldier, as a lover...in the early 1920s, and probably Roehm. "This mixture of the erotic and... Read more
	EDITOR OF ANTISEMITIC PAPER GETS TWO-YEAR SUSPENDED SENTENCE. ; ...against Denis Akhmetzyanov, a Khabarovsk law student who wrote articles for the newspaper under the pseudonym Roehm, in honor of Ernst Roehm, founder of the Nazi stormtroopers. According to "Tikhookeanskaya zvezda," Akhmetzyanov's authorship of some... Read more
	(book review) ; ...relationship with another runner, Ernst Schmidt. At war's end, Hitler...He met at that time Capt. Ernst Roehm, a well-connected army officer...who mentored and tutored him: Roehm, a notorious pederast and a...Eckart, 21 years his senior. Roehm, a career staff officer during... Read more
	IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1957: Verdict in a Nazi Case ; ...co-defendant, former SS Col. Michael Lippert, guilty of assisting in manslaughter through execution of storm troop chief Ernst Roehm himself. Both men were sentenced to one year and six months in prison. Countering defense arguments that the executions... Read more
	Where are they now? Catching up with MBAs who finished 10 years ago.(Focus: MBA Programs) ; ...It was the best experience of my life,'' he says. Julie Roehm Director of marketing communications, Chrysler, Dodge and...University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Julie Roehm was 28, pregnant with her first child and three years out...the finished spots, giving the winners credit on air. Ms. ... Read more
	Rivals to Hitler's Nazis (Cont'd.) ; ...Hitler perceived, was an ally. Hitler's early henchman, Ernst Roehm, rabble roused with the Communists to achieve this goal...Hitler's twisted sense.) It's instructive to remember that Roehm was cast off when his utility as a street brawler wore... Read more

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