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In June 1933, Bernays returned to Germany and had a meeting with Edmund Heines, Chief Commissioner of the Police in Breslau and deputy to Ernst Röhm, the head of the Sturmabteilung (SA). Although he admitted that Heines "had, so far as the atrocities were concerned, the most evil and extraordinary reputation in all Germany" Bernays found him ...
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The private lives of the men — whose ranks also included Philip Sassoon, who hailed from the extended Rothschild family and served as the Air Minister inside Chamberlain’s government — took some digging for Bryant to uncover. None of the men would have defined themselves as gay and few personal records remain as, at the time of their deaths, famili...
Bernays was refused a meeting with Hitler, but, shortly after the Nazis came to power, Hermann Goring agreed to meet with Sassoon. One of the country’s wealthiest MPs, he was described at the time of his premature death in 1939 as “the foremost Jew in society.” At Sassoon’s home in London’s exclusive Park Lane, his country house at Trent Park on th...
The June 1934 Night of the Long Knives — in which Röhm and Heines were among the high-profile casualties — unleashed a sustained attack by the Nazis on homosexuality which, Bryant argues, helped crystalize the thinking of this small group of MPs. As Boothby wrote after a party at Sassoon’s during which the news of the killings broke: “One thing, w...
The Glamour Boys, however, helped to challenge this tide of opinion. Shortly before his election in 1935, Cartland and his sister, the best-selling author Barbara, visited Germany. Disgusted by the anti-Jewish posters in the streets, he refused an invitation later that year to the Nuremberg Rally and, once in parliament, became a prime mover in the...
But Cazalet and the “insurgents” were hardly representative of wider feelings on the government benches. In June 1938, for instance, the pro-Nazi Tory MP Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay proposed a bill banning “godless aliens” which was carried by a majority of 30. By the time of Munich, the Conservative party in parliament remained, in the words of...
When war came, too, a number of the Glamour Boys saw active service. Cartland, who had joined the army’s volunteer reserve force in 1937, died aged 33 in May 1940 as British forces retreated to Dunkirk. Days before, he had led the defense of Cassel, which is credited with slowing the German advance and allowing thousands of Allied soldiers to escap...
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Oct 31, 2020 · After Hitler was made Chancellor in 1933, Rob Bernays, the Liberal National MP for Bristol North, was granted a whole day with Edmund Heines, one of the earliest members of the Nazi party....
Edmund Heines. In June 1933, the National Liberal MP, Robert Bernays went to Germany and had a meeting with Edmund Heines, Although he admitted that Heines "had, so far as the atrocities were concerned, the most evil and extraordinary reputation in all Germany" Bernays found him an attractive man.
In the very early morning of June 30, 1934 (commonly referred to as the "Night of the Long Knives" or "Nacht der langen Messer"), Adolf Hitler landed at Oberweissfeld, the airport in Munich, and ordered his chauffeur, Erich Kempka, to drive to the Kurheim Hanselbauer in Bad Wiesse, a resort hotel on the lake shore of Tegernsee.
Nov 12, 2020 · Rob Bernays, a journalist of Jewish descent who became Liberal MP for Bristol North in 1935, paid four visits to Germany in the early 1930s. During this time he interviewed several homosexuals of...
Nov 17, 2015 · They also found two other stormtroopers in bed together in another room, the high-ranking Edmund Heines and his 18-year-old driver. Heines was eventually shot, but the fate of the other is unknown. This event kicked off a three-day massacre that became known as The Night of the Long Knives.
