Röhm in a sentence

During the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, a purge of those whom Hitler deemed threats to his power took place, he had Röhm murdered and used Röhm's homosexuality as a justification to suppress outrage within the ranks of the SA.

German authors often use quotation marks or write about the sogenannter Röhm-Putsch main ("so-called Röhm Putsch") for emphasis.sfn Hitler and the Sturmabteilung (SA) Hitler posing in Nuremberg with SA members in the late 1920s.

Hitler took charge in Munich, where Röhm was arrested; he gave Röhm the choice to commit suicide or be shot.

The latter’s goal, allegedly, was to replace the regular army with his own men under arms and, as Himmler’s immediate boss, Röhm also stifled the expansion and independence of the SS.

An earlier film by Riefenstahl— Der Sieg des Glaubens —showed Hitler and SA leader Ernst Röhm together at the 1933 Nazi party congress.

At around 3 am, the first casualties of the putsch occurred when the local garrison of the Reichswehr spotted Röhm's men coming out of the beer hall.

Because their plans for the army were mutually exclusive, Röhm's success could only come at Hitler's expense.

Blomberg, who had been meeting with the President, uncharacteristically reproached Hitler for not having moved against Röhm earlier.

By the end of the year, party membership was recorded at 2,000,sfn many of whom Hitler and Röhm had brought into the party personally, or for whom Hitler's oratory had been their reason for joining.

Conservatives in the army, industry, and politics placed Hitler under increasing pressure to reduce the influence of the SA and to move against Röhm.

Encountering heavy resistance, Röhm and his men were forced to fall back.

Ernst Röhm had been given a seat on the National Defense Council and began to demand more say over military matters.

He held the same position with Röhm as I held with Himmler.

Heinrich Himmler had initially been a supporter of Röhm, arguing that the charges of homosexuality against him were manufactured by Jews.

Heydrich, named chief of the Gestapo by Himmler on 22 April 1934, also continued as head of the SD.sfn Hitler decided on 21 June that Röhm and the SA leadership had to be eliminated.

Historian Robert GL Waite claims that in Hitler's "Röhm Purge" speech to the Reichstag on 13 July 1934, he implied that the Freikorps were one of the groups of "pathological enemies of the state".

Hitler initially protected Röhm from other elements of the Nazi Party which held his homosexuality to be a violation of the party's strong anti-gay policy.

Hitler insisted that Röhm should first be allowed to commit suicide.

Hitler liked Röhm and initially refused to believe the dossier provided by Heydrich.

Industrialists, who had provided the funds for the Nazi victory, were unhappy with Röhm's socialistic views on the economy and his claims that the real revolution had still to take place.