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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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    Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer), also called the Röhm purge (German: Der Röhm-Putsch) or Operation Hummingbird (German: Unternehmen Kolibri)...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    shouts of Geil Röhm ("Hot Röhm!"), Schwul Heil ("Heil Gay") or SA, Hose Runter! ("SA, Trousers Down!). In 1931, the SPD revealed Röhm's homosexuality in...
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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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    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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    (Ferdinand von Bredow, Georg von Detten, Karl Ernst, Hans Hayn, Edmund Heines, Peter von Heydebreck, Ernst Röhm, Kurt von Schleicher, Gregor Strasser, and...
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    1934, Ernst Röhm introduced an SA-Ehrendolch (SA honorary dagger) based on the SS model, with the inscription In herzlicher Kameradschaft, Ernst Röhm ("In...
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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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    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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    July 1919. Ernst Toller, imprisoned, 1919–1924. Adolf Hitler, imprisoned for a month in 1922 for assaulting Otto Ballerstedt. Ernst Röhm was imprisoned...
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    the historical figures Adolf Hitler, Gustav Krupp, Gregor Strasser, and Ernst Röhm, and uses them as mouthpieces to express Mishima's own views on fascism...
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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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  • persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany after the murder of SA leader Ernst Röhm on the Night of the Long Knives. Max (Clive Owen) is a promiscuous gay...
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    in the wake of the Stennes Revolt until the assumption of command by Ernst Röhm as the new Chief of Staff in early January 1931. In 1933 he became a member...
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    persuading Nazi leaders such as Göring and Himmler that the power of Ernst Röhm and the SA must be broken if the army was to support the Nazi-led government...
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  • chemical company Rohm and Haas Ernst Röhm (1887–1934), purged and murdered German commander and cofounder of the Nazi SA (Stormtroopers) Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells...
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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 purged. By late 1934, his authority...
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    suicide together. Ernst Röhm was Hitler's closest friend—the only person who called him "Adolf". Hitler continued to support him during the Röhm scandal in 1931–1932...
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  • Berlin July 1934 – Murder of SA Leader Ernst Röhm (in the Night of the Long Knives) November 1938 – Shooting of Ernst vom Rath November 1938 – The night of...
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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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