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Initially a close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler, Röhm was the co-founder and leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi Party's original paramilitary wing, which played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
Jul 20, 1998 · Ernst Röhm was a German army officer and chief organizer of Adolf Hitler’s Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung, or SA; Brownshirts). Feared as a rival by Hitler, he was murdered at the Führer’s order.
Dec 24, 2018 · Ernst Röhm, an early member of the Nazi party and close ally of Hitlers, was the Party's chief of staff and commander of the Sturmabteilung. Though he was a friend and ally, Hitler feared Röhm's military influence and so plotted to have him executed.
Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (* 28. November 1887 in München; † 1. Juli 1934 in München-Stadelheim) war ein deutscher Offizier, Führer der Sturmabteilung (SA) und Politiker der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP). Im Kabinett Hitler fungierte er 1933/34 als Reichsminister ohne Geschäftsbereich.
The Night of the Long Knives ( German: Nacht der langen Messer ⓘ ), also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird (German: Unternehmen Kolibri ), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934.
Night of the Long Knives, in German history, purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler on June 30, 1934. Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization’s leaders, including Ernst Rohm, as well as hundreds of other perceived opponents.
Jun 28, 2021 · The Röhm Purge was the murder of the leadership of the SA (Storm Troopers), the Nazi paramilitary formation led by Ernst Röhm. The murders took place between June 30 and July 2, 1934. The ruling elites and ultimately Hitler saw the SA as a threat to their hold on power.
Mar 27, 2017 · The case of Ernst Röhm, the highest-ranking gay Nazi, presents an interesting study in the construction and containment of masculinity by the right. Röhm was Hitler’s right-hand man as head of the Sturmabteilung (SA, the Brownshirts), the Nazi paramilitary wing.
Oct 18, 2019 · Ernst Röhm was a fat, stocky, red-faced little man who had been wounded three times in the First World War, including having half his nose shot away, and when the Great War ended in 1918, Röhm became a professional freebooter and swashbuckler, with boundless contempt for the civilian way of life.
Dec 20, 2011 · Early in the morning of June 30, 1934, SA Chief of Staff Ernst Röhm and other leaders of the National Socialist storm troopers, the Sturmabteilung or SA, were arrested by Adolf Hitler in the Bavarian resort town, Bad Wiessee. Further arrests followed across Germany during the day.
