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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.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.
Eldorado (pictured in 1932), the most famous gay establishment in Germany, [1] frequented by Röhm. Ernst Röhm (1887–1934) was one of the early leaders of the Nazi Party and built up its paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung (SA), which violently attacked communists and other perceived enemies of the German people. [2]
During the Purge itself official radio and newspaper reports only gave the names of ten people killed: the six SA-leaders executed in Stadelheim Prison on June 30; Kurt von Schleicher, a German general and a former Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and his wife; Karl Ernst, who was wrongly reported to have been shot in Stadelheim, whereas in ...
Hitler's desire to consolidate his power and settle old scores; Concern of the Reichswehr about the SA; Desire of Ernst Röhm and the SA to continue "the National Socialist revolution" versus Hitler's need for relative social stability so that the economy could be refocused to rearmament and the German people acclimated to the need for expansion and war
Artist and soldier responsible for much of the Third Reich SS regalia. Prof. Diebitsch worked with graphic designer Walter Heck to design the all-black SS uniform. Also with his business partner Industrialist Franz Nagy, Diebitsch began the production of art porcelain at the porcelain factory Porzellan Manufaktur Allach. 141990 1 May 1920 ...
oil painting, XVIe siècle Julius Priester Collection The painting was seized by the Gestapo in 1938 in Vienna and then turned up in the US at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. [260] Restitution in May 2004. [261] Lucas Cranach l'Ancien Adam et Ève oil painting vers 1530 Jacques Goudstikker [262] Claim for restitution to Norton Simon Museum [263]
The film is of great historic 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 1 July 1934. As he then sought to remove Röhm from German history , Hitler ordered all known copies of the film be destroyed, and it was considered lost until a ...
Franz von Lenbach (1836–1904), artist; Rudolf Maison (1854–1904), sculptor; Edmund Nick (1891–1974), composer; Bernile Nienau (1926-1943), Jewish child who became friends with Adolf Hitler on her 7th birthday; Alexander Pfänder (1870–1941), philosopher; Ernst Röhm (1887–1934), Chief of Staff of the SA, in a small family grave