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May 9, 2024 · 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.
Ernst Julius Günther Röhm 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.
Abstract. Ernst Röhm (1887–1934) was a former Reichswehr officer and had been a member of the NSDAP since 1920. He had supported Hitler in the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch and was among the Führer’s closest friends.
As the early 1930s unfolded, Ernst Röhm rose to prominence as the leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing. The SA would play a crucial role in Hitler’s ascent to power. As its leader, Röhm wanted to transform the SA into the new German army. However, this would ultimately lead to his downfall.
Ernst Röhm (1887-1934), Chief of Staff of the Sturmabteilung, was an prominent early Nazi leader. A close personal friend of Adolf Hitler, Röhm was one of the most powerful Nazis before the seizure of power. As leader of the paramilitary Sturmabteilung, he gained a reputation of ambition and agression, and was also a homosexual.
This opposition found its focus in the SA and its leader in the SA chief of staff, Ernst Röhm. From the summer of 1933 to the summer of 1934, this question of the so-called “second revolution” formed the dominant issue in German politics.
May 21, 2024 · Throughout the period of Hitler's rise to power, Ernst Röhm represented the militant wing of the Nazi Party as the chief organizer of the party militia known as the S.A. (Sturmabteilung) or the Brownshirts. Wounded three times in World War I, he later was one of the original founders of the Nazi Party. In the 1920s, he helped Hitler secure the ...
