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    Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (German: [ɛʁnst ˈʁøːm]; 28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer and a leading member of the Nazi Party...
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    The Röhm scandal resulted from the public disclosure of Nazi politician Ernst Röhm's homosexuality by anti-Nazis in 1931 and 1932. As a result of the scandal...
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    called "November criminals". Captain Ernst Röhm of the Reichswehr served as the liaison with the Bavarian Freikorps. Röhm was given the nickname "The Machine...
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  • became concerned that Ernst Röhm, chief of the Sturmabteilung (SA), was planning a coup d'état. Hitler decided on 21 June that Röhm and the SA leadership...
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    July 1897 – 30 June 1934) was a German Nazi politician and Deputy to Ernst Röhm, the Stabschef of the Sturmabteilung (SA). Heines was one of the earliest...
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  • interest because it shows Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm on close and intimate terms, before Hitler had Röhm killed during the Night of the Long Knives on...
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    uniforms and insignia occurred in 1930 when Ernst Röhm was appointed as Chief of Staff of the SA. Röhm's appointment was as the result of Hitler personally...
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    Hitler was in prison, Ernst Röhm helped to create the Frontbann as a legal alternative to the then-outlawed SA. In April 1924, Röhm had also been given...
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    June 1934, Ernst had just recently married and was in Bremen on his way to Tenerife to honeymoon with his new wife. SA Leader Ernst Röhm had repeatedly...
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    Erich Ludendorff Ernst Röhm Julius Streicher Hermann Kriebel Friedrich Weber Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter Ulrich Graf Hermann Esser Ernst Hanfstaengl Gottfried...
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  • the term was popular as early as 1933. Ernst Röhm, SA co-founder and later commander, developed an "expanding Röhm-cult" within the SA ranks through which...
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    functionary and the commander of the Sturmabteilung ("SA") who succeeded Ernst Röhm as Stabschef and Reichsleiter. After he died from injuries received in...
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    Eulenburg affair and exploited the homosexuality of a few Nazis, especially Ernst Röhm, for propaganda. For example, in 1927, SPD deputies heckled Nazi deputy...
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    Oberste SA-Führer in August until Ernst Röhm replaced him in January 1931. The actual SA rank of Stabschef was created by Röhm for himself in 1933 after Hitler...
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  • opponents, both inside and outside the party, which sees Röhm being arrested and the SA greatly reduced. Röhm is later sentenced to death along with others like...
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    denounced Schleicher for conspiring with Röhm to overthrow the government. Hitler alleged that both Schleicher and Röhm were traitors working in the pay of...
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    (Ferdinand von Bredow, Georg von Detten, Karl Ernst, Hans Hayn, Edmund Heines, Peter von Heydebreck, Ernst Röhm, Kurt von Schleicher, Hans Walter Schmidt [de]...
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  • (Imperial War Flag Union) was a paramilitary organization founded by Ernst Röhm in 1923. The Bund Reichskriegsflagge was formed from the local groups...
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    leaders became concerned that Ernst Röhm, the SA Chief of Staff, was planning a coup d'état. On 21 June, Hitler decided that Röhm and the SA leadership had...
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    SA chief Ernst Röhm introduced an SA honorary dagger based on the SS model, with the inscription In herzlicher Kameradschaft, Ernst Röhm ("In warm camaraderie...
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  • the Bund Reichskriegsflagge, a paramilitary organization controlled by Ernst Röhm. On 9 November of the same year, he took part in Adolf Hitler's failed...
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    addition to the leadership of the DNVP and NSDAP, Sturmabteilung (SA) chief Ernst Röhm, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and Reichstag MP Hermann Göring, the...
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    Hugenberg as Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture. December 1933: Ernst Röhm and Rudolf Hess enter the Cabinet as Reich Ministers without Portfolio...
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    paramilitary branch, the Sturmabteilung (SA). He served as the chief adjutant to Ernst Röhm, the SA-Stabschef, and was executed by members of the Leibstandarte SS...
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    Theodor Eicke – An SS-Obergruppenführer and one of the executioners of Ernst Röhm. A leading figure in the establishment of the concentration camps system...
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    important role in carrying out the Night of the Long Knives, in which Ernst Röhm and other leading member of the SA were murdered. By late 1934, his authority...
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    Strasserist faction and killing their leader, Gregor Strasser, as well as Ernst Röhm, the head of the SA, during the Night of the Long Knives in July 1934...
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    arrest, including Freikorps commander Hermann Ehrhardt and SA leader Ernst Röhm. In Hitler's Reichstag speech following the purge, Hitler denounced the...
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    the SS during the Röhm Putsch on 30 June 1934. Wilhelm Schmid, an SA-Gruppenführer, imprisoned and killed by the SS during the Röhm Putsch on 30 June...
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    Obergruppenführer was created in 1932 by Ernst Röhm and was intended as a seniormost rank of the Nazi stormtroopers for use by Röhm and his top SA generals. In its...
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