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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.
Both Kurt von Schleicher, Hitler's predecessor as Chancellor, and his wife were murdered at their home. Others killed included Gregor Strasser, a former Nazi who had angered Hitler by resigning from the party in 1932, and Gustav Ritter von Kahr, the former Bavarian state commissioner who had helped crush the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. [46]
Although most of those killed during the Night of the Long Knives were members of the SA, other victims included close associates of Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, several Reichswehr (German Army) members – one of whom, General Kurt von Schleicher, was formerly Chancellor of Germany – and their associates; Gregor Strasser, Hitler's former ...
In mid-1934, Hitler had Röhm, along with most of his close political friends, killed during what he termed the "Night of the Long Knives". [ 152 ] [ 153 ] Nazi propaganda claimed that Hitler had recently discovered Röhm's homosexuality, and that the murders were a defense against a coup by the SA to overthrow the government.
The film, directed and executive produced by Elisabeth Rohm, mimics the real life story of Steven Pladl, who was arrested in January 2018 for impregnating his biological daughter, Katie Pladl ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 December 2024. Myth that homosexuals pervaded the Nazi Party Protester opposing same-sex marriage in Boston, 2007 There is a widespread and long-lasting myth alleging that homosexuals were numerous and prominent as a group in the Nazi Party [a] or the identification of Nazism with homosexuality more ...
On Wednesday, he was killed in broad daylight in Manhattan – and quickly became a meme and source of ridicule on social media. His killer is still on the loose. "Thoughts and deductibles to the ...
Fifty years ago today, on the stage of London’s Hammersmith Odeon, David Bowie killed Ziggy Stardust. Of course, it was not a conventional murder: Ziggy was Bowie’s creation, a character he ...