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7GREEN	June 30, 1934	Lead	[-]
Posts: 614 (06/29/09 10:12 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None Hitler launches a violent purge of his opponents. Foremost among them are SA Chief Ernst Roehm and Hitler's predecessor as Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher. Hitler will later claim they were plotting to overthrow the government. The official name for this action is the Roehm Putsch, Germans call it the "Reichsmordewoche"-the Reich Murder Week, History calls it the Night of the Long Knives.
eagle7		#1	[-]
Posts: 3974 (06/30/09 11:38 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Historians disagree on the deathtoll during the Roehm Putsch, with the tally varying from 200 to 700 victims. According to official Nazi propaganda 77 notable people were liquidated, but all SS and Gestapo records of the Night of the Long Knives were destroyed during WWII. The victims fall mostly into three catagories. The first group were untrustworthy SA members in the higher leadership roles. The second group were conservatives that initially supported the NSDAP, but were becoming increasingly disenchanted with Hitler. The last group were individuals that either knew too much about the private lives of Hitler, Goering, Himmler, etc..., or had opposed them and were killed as the result of a grudge. The Night of the Long Knives is a good example of how revolutions often eat their young, so to speak. Without Roehm and the SA, Hitler would have not come to power, but once he became chancellor they became a threat. The leadership of the SA was anti-capitalist, anti-traditional, and radically socialist in some respects (redistribution of wealth, nationalization of industry, and dismantling of aristocratic estates). After Hitler became chancellor, the SA leadership began to openly complain that the Nazi revolution hadn't gone far enough. In 1928 the SA numbered one million, in mid-1934 they were approaching 4 million members. This threatened the Reichswehr (100,000 soldiers), and the SS (only 10,000 members). Roehm's bragging about the SA absorbing the Reichswehr into it's organization convinced the generals that it was time to make a deal with Hitler. The fact that the rank and file of the SA were street thugs that often engaged in random drunken violence against ordinary German citizens after the communists and social democrats were defeated in 1932 alienated public opinion.
Aubullet		#2	[-]
Posts: 1216 (06/30/09 06:58 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Today is also the day, in 1520, that Montezuma was killed by Cortez' men as they were driven from the Aztec capitol. They suffered their worst losses during this battle as they were slowed by their armor and even more so by their looted treasures so were easily overtaken by their pursuers. On this date in 1908 the Tunguska event occurred wherein thousands of square miles of forest were leveled by an air-blast thought to have been caused by a comet or meteor that didn't strike the ground in Siberia.
eagle7		#3	[-]
Posts: 3975 (06/30/09 08:39 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Historians have not reached total agreement on who killed Montezuma. Cortes' letters, Bernal Diaz de Castillo's eyewitness book, The Conquest of Mexico, and some native accounts compiled years afterwards state that Montezuma was mortally wounded by his own people. An uprising broke out while Cortes was absent from Tenochtitlan, and Cortes' lieutenant, Alvarado, secured Montezuma in the Spanish stronghold. When Cortes returned, he had Montezuma address the rebellious Aztecs, who responded by pelting him with stones and arrows. There are also accounts from former members of Montezuma's court that say he was stabbed in the stomach by the Spaniards when they realized Montezuma had no control over his people. IIRC, the disastrous Spanish retreat across the causeways was a few days after Montezuma's demise.
7GREEN		#4	[-]
Posts: 618 (06/30/09 09:18 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	In his speech to the Reichstag and July 13 justifying his actions Hitler denounces Roehm for his homosexuality and appointing senior SA leaders because they were homosexuals, leading some to ask, what will he do when he finds about Goebbels' club foot? The Italian ambassador to German tells Mussolini that the arrests were accompanied by "revolting scenes" to which Il Duce replies: "One of the outstanding features of the revolt is that the majority of its leaders were pederasts, beginning with Roehm." Hitler receieves a telegram from Reichspresident Von Hindenburg praising him for showing "soldierly courage" and "nipping treason in the bud" and Reichswehr Minisitr Von Blomberg asserts his solidarity with Hitler and the Armed Forces support of his actions. The New York Times headline reads: "Hitler crushes revolt by Nazi Radicals" and foreign governments accept the story that it was an internal German matter. On August 2 Hindenburg dies, Hitler becomes Head of State as well as Head of Government, the German Armed Forces take an oath to him personally.
eagle7		#5	[-]
Posts: 3977 (07/01/09 11:39 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The German military oath of allegiance to Hitler was the Reichswehr's (soon to be redubbed Wehrmacht) reward to Hitler for getting rid of the SA. The generals would live to regret that move! I wonder if the purge of the SA and it's flamboyantly homosexual leadership made Rudolf Hess nervous, since he too was homosexual. What was it about Nazism that it attracted so many perverts to it's ranks?
7GREEN		#6	[-]
Posts: 621 (07/01/09 05:07 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Why did the Nazi Party attract so many perverts to its ranks? Must have been the uniforms, all that leather, the Sam Browne belts, the riding boots, all those virile young men.... More seriously, because they were accepted. Homosexuality was illegal in Germany at the time-homosexuals were called Paragraph 175 men after the relevant section of the Reichs Criminal Code. Hitler knew about Roehm's predelcitions, when other Party members complained to him about it, Der Fuehrer said he was not concerned with the private lives and he knew he could count on Roehm's devotion. When Adolph began to doubt Roehm's loyalty-cf the angry remarks reported to Hitler by Viktor Lutze-"everything that ridiculous corporal said!" and when the Reichswehr chiefs agreed to support Hitler suceeding Hindenburg as Head of State-and thus preventing any monarchist restoration provided he agreed to curb the SA and end Roehm's idea of taking over the Reichswher and subordinating it to the SA-then Roehm and his pals were finished. It was said in Germany "Only after Roehm's death do we realize the truth of his dictum-out of every Hitler Youth a Storm Trooper will emerge!" Supposedly Roehm had a plaque over desk that read: "At work I wait for night to come/And look forward to the evening's bum."

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