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Ernst Roehm

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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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