@Fender Player I concur with you 100%. I’ve often wondered if Adolf was a little light on his jackboots, since Röhm the only one he addressed with the familiar form of address Du instead of Sie?
@@lindaarrington9397from what I've heard he's the man that recruited Himmler and challenged Hitler vocally that if he doesn't start the revolution he should be thrown out, is probably why they assassinated him among other's. I think the whole thing is hard to understand unless you're German I guess.
First full-length doc I've seen on Rohm. I've always been fascinated by the Nazi leaders and have read extensively on them but this greatly expanded my knowledge on Rohm. I have thoroughly enjoyed all of your videos.
@Schlomo Baconberg would you happen to know any books concerning Strasser, any writings or speeches, or that concerns itself with the general topic of the "left" in the nsdap?
If there is one part of WWII that is underrepresented in academic history, it's the post-1934 SA. They were greatly diminished after 1934, but they didn't completely disappear until the rest of the Nazi party did.
Well this was a historically refreshing first for me! You mean to say that ol' Ernst Rohm was an actual human being with his place in history? I had become used to him being briefly introduced as a sexual deviant cartoon and then quickly moving on to another topic.
SA were working class lads mostly as opposed to the "elite bourgeoisie" SS. Probably not loyal, prestigious or fancy enough once NSDAP rose to power. They used to call these type of guys 'steaks' in Europe at the time, brown on the outside, red inside
@@davids.654 I'm not obsessed with it I happen to just have an interest in WW2 history from both sides and it is somewhat interesting to see an in depth look at someone who was in many ways a pivotal player in the whole thing.
Billiantly crafted, heavy on historical details, clearly narrated video. A must see for anyone with even a passing interest in the Era, or the subject of the Weimar Republic and early Nazi Germany. I would higly recommend this video.!!
Whatever else you can say about Ernst Rohm, he died like a man. Quite unlike Lavrenty Beria, head of the NKVD, the intelligence agency and secret police of the USSR. Beria, in tears, fell to his knees and pleaded for his life before a Red Army general shot him in the head.
@@richardcollier1912 Close. Try saying 'o' and 'e' at the same time, and you come up with a pretty good attempt at the "O-umlaut". I had trouble with it at first too.
In my mind, Röhm is by far the most interesting nazi. Openly gay, decorated soldier, fearless, ruthless, cunning and extremely effective in everything he did. And his very even relationship with Adolf, made him even more spetacular. Thanks for a great documentary!
@@dying101666 some say Hitler evidently liked it too and thus a willing participant. One of the main reasons he had Röhm killed other than the manufacturered rumor France paid him to overthrow him and the fact he was openly gay, not good for Nazi image
The interesting thing for me was his incredible Luck during the first world war (because he survived the spanish flu when others didn't and got promoted because of it)
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Well done. Thank you! I'd love to see a detailed bio on Robert Ley, another early member of the Nazi inner circle who isn't well known about but who wielded enormous power.
@@aaropajari7058 there was a book written by a man who by happenstance of world events met all the major national leaders of the future combatant nations. He recounted having breakfast coffee and rolls with Hitler as Hitler was hearing the demands of the German navy for funds for construction of the battleship Scharnhorst as Hitler was still gazing at the accounts book of the "People's Car" paid production order subscriptions. "There, there is the 300,000,000 marks needed. Right here." The writer reported Hitler as stating to his staff as he pointed at the amounts of the summed collected subscriptions.
Excellent overview but I would add a somewhat different perspective: Roehm and the SA were the true socialists in the Nazi party, the left wing with plans for nationalizing banks and industries, agricultural reforms etc. Most members came from the lower and working classes. They took socialist reforms seriously, e.g. the Strasser brothers. Consequently, the SA was feared by the right-wing of the Nazi party esp. the SS which tended to be from the middle and upper classes with the appropriate attitudes and beliefs. That difference drove the rightists to decapitate the SA and suppress it. There was a well-founded fear of Communism after the Eisner Coup and the Spartacists.
@@RenaissanceMan29 The nationalization of industries was one part of the Nazi plan to make the state all-powerful, and above all, subservient to Hitler. Industries were under complete control of the state and only nominally controlled by their actual owners, i.e. it was just a variant of socialist/communist statism. Roehm and the Strassers wanted direct nationalization and not a variant thereof. The fact is Nazi-ism is as much a left-wing philosophy as are socialism and communism - they are all statists - and should be avoided like the plague.
@@RenaissanceMan29 The Nazis did help the working classes a great deal - that was the socialist in National Socialism - but Roehm and the Strasser brothers wanted to go even further. There was never any doubt who had the final say in Third Reich economics - and it wasn't the industrialists. They had only nominal; control over their holdings. On this score, the difference between Nazi-sim and Communism was minimal. But *both* are totalitarian statism. Even today's socialists are on that track - just not so far down the line - yet. One of Communism's biggest lies is that Nazi-ism is a right-wing philosophy. It is left-wing on the same statist track as socialism and Communism.
In the book "Hitler's Traitor" the theory that Martin Bormann with Heinrich Muller's help single handily brought down the Third Reich ends with the 'why' but is ultimately ambiguous. Based on further analysis I believe that his real motive was revenge for Rolhms murder..☠
For Hitler, killing his best friend is just a sacrifice he needs to make to remain in power. Remember, as chief of staff of the SA, Rohm was extremely popular and many SA members were more loyal to him than even Hitler. He was also anti-capitalist and felt that the Nazi Party is not doing enough to bring about the his idea of a national socialist revolution, and he also wanted the SA to replace the German army. Many prominent Nazi leaders such as Goring, Goebbels, Hess and Himmler were actually fearful of and hated Rohm because of how powerful he is. All these Nazis, including Hitler, knew that Rohm’s SA I’d powerful enough to remove them from power if he wanted. Keeping Rohm around would only mean a competitor to Hitler’s popularity and something which alienate large business owners and army generals, whose support is needed for Hitler to remain in power. Even though Rohm is perhaps Hitler’s last true honest friend, Rohm had outlived his usefulness to Hitler and became more of a liability than an asset, so he has to go.
Thank you for this most interesting, factual documentary which is available in perpetuity for future interested history students. England, February, 2024.
Rohm was homosexual and had many young soldiers as lovers which Hitler detested, it was against the very fabric of being Aryan creating pure white German Children with no Jewish blood either !
@@cheltersful That was one of the Rules of being Aryan in that homosexuality was "verboten" in every sense of the word, same applies to ALL Members of The Church Of Scientology today !
Brilliant outline of a highly decorated officer and survivor of the Monasteries of Fire, as Ernst Junger called the brutal experience of the war of trenches! The commentaries are sober, impartial and stress the historical atmosphere of the times. Some short newsreels showing the power and the demands of nearly a million men in the ranks of the SA who rightly believed that no taken of power would have been possible without their fight and sacrifice, could form a complementary film. The SA in 1934 were waiting for a true Revolution to start but they were in no mood of rebellion. Congratulations and thank you.
@Dan Bertucci Read my comment above comparing the "peaceful protesters" with the SA thugs. As Hitler had a problem with his alliance having added the more establishment elements, the danger for the U. S. politicians in power today is similar. Will the government in power today authorize the elimination of the leaders who have the power to call out 400 "demonstrations" through text messages. or will their accounts be suspended?
@@RobertJonesWightpaint Because of course there is no proof or even evidence that he or Eva Braun died underground. Just as there is no real proof that Bormann died in the Battle of Berlin. But there is a mountain of evidence that he, Eva Braun and Martin Bormann escaped to Argentina just as the Russians were closing in on the bunker.
I don't think so. He was extremely upset at Hitler for Hitler's desire to essentially emasculate the SA. I don't think Rohm was plotting against Hitler, but he was very angry. It's hard to say what would have happened.
röhm was not killed because of any homophobic attitude on the part of hitler - he was one of hitler's most dangerous competitors with a would be army of 3 million s a men and he wrote about a continuation of the ns "revolution" - this alarmed hitler
Many thanks for bringing these historical facts to the public so that we may have knowledge and we never forget. Also I think maybe Rohn would have at the end taken power away from Hitler.
The introduction is misleading. Hitler couldn't care less about Rohm's homosexuality, or anyone else's, for that matter. They actually were brothers in arms from the beginning of the NSDAP. Hitler used the situation to stage Rohm. The real motive was Rohms growing popularity and power. Hitler disposed of someone he considered as a serious rival for his leadership.
True. Röhm was trying to deviate too far away from Hitlers original plans. He advocated for the military to join the SA ranks. It was impractical as the average soldier would likely not be fit to govern which would prove unruly and because Röhm was the SA’s leader it seemed like a ploy for him to gain more political assets for his own benefit which Hitler certainly wasn’t a fan of. There‘s also the fact that Rohm‘s homosexuality (as well as other SA members’ like Edmund Heines) was well known and used as ammo by political enemies against the Nazi Party. Hitler didn’t give a single damn about whether he was gay or not as he found his brilliance and ambition far too invaluable to lose up until his political opponents‘ rain of slander. Condemning it publicly would be a useful tool for getting socially conservative institutions, like the Church, back on his side, similar to how he claimed celibacy despite having secret relations in his private life. Day by day, Röhm was becoming more of a roadblock in his plans and it was very apparent that by this point Röhm was more useful dead than alive, despite their strong friendship. Seems cruel, but if anyone would backstab their best friend for political power, it would be Hitler.
In the larger sense, it's just pragmatism as they practiced it. Even without a threat to Hitler's power, Rohm, (like many others) would be discarded when and if he'd outlived his usefulness. These guys weren't shy about throwing people under the bus if it benefited them.
Seems eerily similar to present day America. Economic hardship, social unrest, political unrest, flu epidemic, rise of communism, rise of right wing, confiscation of citizen gun rights. Hope it turns out better.
Love the Munich views. I remember stumbling on the Odeonsplatz quite by accident while wandering the city and realizing where I was having seen it in historical footage.
I did the same thing. I suddenly looked around and realised that this was where the Putsch had happened and was stopped.
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I think the 1 thing that cost him his life is not his revolting, disagreements with Hitler etc, but his homosexuality. Hitler knew he wasn't a threat and wasn't planning a coup, but having a homosexual no.2 undermined his authority and had him gone.
In disposing of Röhm, Hitler removed a rival who undoubtably would sooner or later have challenged him for the leadership of the party. Was Röhm smarter than Hitler? I tend to think so, which makes me wonder where we would be today with a Third Reich controlled by him.
There are so many details about Röhm that i didn't know e.g. that he was openly gay and obviously Hitler knew. But after all the nazi gang lived through the roaring 20's! Judging from your merchandise I trust you are British. It's rare to hear someone from the other side of the North Sea at least trying to pronounce words and names in German. This is a very great video and I'm subscribing.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Class A research project!!! Orator presented the documentary very well. Rohm had his moments of glory/hour of pain. As did the other disillusioned reprobates vying for power.
Rohm demonstrated a little appreciated aspect of "power." Enter two observations: "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" "No drug has ever been as addicting as POWER." When 'power' exceeds the reasonably observed quality of 'responsibility,' taking on the quality of 'lust,' becoming essentially a source of pleasure, Lord Acton's 'absolute power' is seen. It's doubtful that Rohm would have long allowed Hitler, or anyone, to restrain Rohm's penchant for 'power.' In the given time frame, Rohm was acting from his preexisting military/power experience, versus Hitler's far less military/power experience. Obviously, Hitler eventually caved in to his primal instincts, in extremis.
Also Rohm was into SM with young males in the SA, he wasn't just gay. Many at the hotel were dragged out of bed with their young male lovers and they were shot too. Leadership in the SA were seen as outside the acceptable norm. Especially, by the very straight Prussian Officer Corp.
When writing this, I decided to elude to it more than outright say it. While we agree that it did happen, I was afraid it would get the video demonetized, so i choose my wording very carefully to let the imagination take its course.
I’d rather the content be accessible than removed. Im not omitting the fact that he was gay and had “other” attractions. People are more than welcome to read through the sources I used and dig deeper, as I openly encourage it.
Ok he was homosexual,he was a brave old style fighter for the party who his detractors have villified,it's unlikely he was shamed when discovered in bed with his men,Hitler was fully aware of his inclinations.None of that stopped him being a highly decorated professional soldier.
Interesting, Rohm is mostly skipped over. The institutional/economic powers would not have embraced him! Would that changed, what became the worst regime in history?
And so did the schoolboys that had more than a big sausage for their lunch, two big sausages, och. Well, as they said later, they were hungry and it filled a hole.
One can see a resemblance between the tactics of the stormtroopers and Antifa. Seems that fascists and anti-fascists employ the same tactics of intimidation and attacking both real and imaginary opponents.
Jup the NSDAP was filled with freemasonic traitors. The SA who was filled with the patriotic common man was a threat tp aristocratic Hitler and his roman asskissing politics like the reichsconcordat of 1933 allowing catholicism back into germany
He definitely had dirt on the party he knew where the bodies were buried because he was the guy who buried them He wanted to unite the Army and the SA with him in charge of both. The Army threatened a military coup if that happened. He was too dangerous to just strip from power
@Schlomo Baconberg What on earth gave you that impression? Hitler was never an atheist, he despised atheist, and viewed atheism as something related to Bolshevism - he was a Christian, and very open about it! He grew up as a Chatolic, and never left the Chatolic Church, although his own personal beliefs embraced Positive Christianity - a reformed branch of Christianity uniting Protestants and Chatolics, rejecting the Old Testament, and replacing the narrative of Jesus being a Jew with a Aryan Jesus..... This branch of Christian theology would at the time get consolidated into the "Deutsche Christen" movement -and infuse it self into the Nazi movement. Very poorly translated accounts of conversations Hitler had, where he expressed concerns about aspects of dominant Christian beliefs has been used by some non-German speaking Christian historians making highly biased claims against him and accusing him of being an atheist! It is without a doubt emotionally based claims that basically can be cooked down to no-true-Scottsman" fallacy - and an attempt to "acquit" Christianity from having anything to do with Nazism! However, it’s a fact that the theological thoughts of Positive Christianity predates Hitler, the Nazi movement, and the formation of the Nazi party - and it still has proponents today where it is a huge influence in the Christian Identity movement....
@Rick Vis What he despised was the most common version of Christianity, where Jesus is a Jew. Not the Aryan Christianity! And even if it had been true, it still wouldn't have made him an atheist. However, if you read his publicized conversations in German, and hold it in context to known historic facts, it is quite clear that he was not only a believer, but also a proponent of the Aryan Christ narrative that hitched on to the nazi movement in the form of the Deutsche Christen movement..
Great documentary thanks for posting and do one on Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin was a Soviet major general who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD
the story of Rohm's fall is only partly believable. Too much of it is either improbable or hard to believe. An excellent documentary, and thank you for putting it together.
@@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding Attempting to hang a "homophobia" label on anyone who points out the truth means you've lost the argument. At some point in time very soon, you'll be completely ignored.
Its thinly mentioned at the end and hinted at in the introduction with “compromising positions”. I did not include specifics when writing this so as TH-cam did not take it down or demonetize it. I did not read this book as part of my research for him, but there are others sources that do mention his party’s with young boys and other engagements.
@@christopherfritz3840 Yes, I have read it, and as I recall, homosexuality was called "Germany's National Vice". That type of behavior was very prevalent in Europe in the 20 & 30's. The book also mentioned two other aspects of this behavior... the Wandervogels (German Boy Scouts, or Wandering Birds) were founded by a 17 year old homosexual teen, and that Hitler used homosexual Beerhalls for his gatherings. One troubling current aspect of the Holocaust is many homosexuals claim they were "targeted" for extermination, which is simply not true. True, there were 5,000 to 15,000 homosexuals who died in the camps... both labor and extermination, but the 5K to 15K number of deaths hardly reaches the true numbers of homosexuals in any society, which is somewhere between 2%-3%. Out of a population of 65 million Germans at the time, that would mean that nearly 2 million homosexuals would have been killed to exterminate them. If you add the 15 million population from the Anschluss (the Annexation of Austria), that would mean that 2.4 million homosexuals would have been killed to "exterminate" them. As horrible as 5K to 15K deaths was, that number hardly reaches the level of Genocide against the homosexual population. Another troublesome fact is that some 3 million Christians also died during the Holocaust and are hardly ever mentioned, in addition to the 6 Million Jews that history has taught us died in that Pogrom. Yes, there were other groups with far lesser atrocities against them, including Jehova's Witnesses, Homosexuals, Gypsies, et al. Each and every death was a loss to that human being, as well as to society, so my intent is not to minimize the loss of any of the individuals in any of these groups. But truth should not be thrown out the window to satisfy the whims of those who would rewrite history.
Outstanding. I've heard all of the "highlights" about Rohm but never much detail. It does seem as though he had some thoughts of overall leadership in Germany. His closeness to Hitler was probably what kept him in power, and alive for as long as it did. The German military was fearful of the SA and the fact that Rohm wasn't easily controlled kept people fearful of him. Of course, his blatant homosexuality at a time when the Nazi's were singing a different tune was something that probably drove some others to really despise Rohm. Sometimes it seems like he was thumbing his nose at everyone and finally the pressure on Hitler became too great and that was the end of Rohm and the SA as it had come to be.
The Triple Entente were the Allies in WWI: Britain, France, and Russia. Germany was in the Triple Alliance w/Austria-Hungary and Italy; Italy, of course, didn't join Germany & Austria-Hungary when war broke out in 1914, and instead entered on the Allies' side in 1915.
Great video of an underrepresented period of information that outlines the political maneuvering of political party’s that ultimately created the Hitler Germany we all know from 1939. A multiple watch is necessary-packed with information. I watched it three times so far during gym workouts. I think another three will solidify the sequence of events.
I especially love documentaries on the interwar period of the early Weimar republic, the extreme political violence in the streets and the numerous coups that were attempted. WWI and WWII documentaries are a dime a dozen. Yes a lot of them are amazing videos, but you barely learn what happened between the two wars, except for a brief mention.
Excellent video Sir. Everything Rohm touched came good, thats what was feared. I think he was shrewd, with all his resignations. I think that he would not have fell for Roosevelts/Churchills plans for Germanys destruction. Even how he died was great. He may have been a homosexual, but was still great Man. I knew nothing of the fellow until now, thank you for this.
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This was the first full length documentary on Röhm I’ve ever seen, thank you for posting this entertaining and informative video.
@Fender Player I concur with you 100%. I’ve often wondered if Adolf was a little light on his jackboots, since Röhm the only one he addressed with the familiar form of address Du instead of Sie?
Me 2 I've never heard much about him at all
@@sgtmayhem7567 Rohm was light on his jackboots
Rohm was one of the scariest Nazis, as a gay guy myself he scares the shit outta me.
@@lindaarrington9397from what I've heard he's the man that recruited Himmler and challenged Hitler vocally that if he doesn't start the revolution he should be thrown out, is probably why they assassinated him among other's. I think the whole thing is hard to understand unless you're German I guess.
First full-length doc I've seen on Rohm. I've always been fascinated by the Nazi leaders and have read extensively on them but this greatly expanded my knowledge on Rohm. I have thoroughly enjoyed all of your videos.
Thank you!
Personally I think this is one of your best documentaries to date.
Great job on this one. So much info I never knew about Rohm. Another one I would love to see is Gregor Strasser.
Don't forget Otto!
@Schlomo Baconberg would you happen to know any books concerning Strasser, any writings or speeches, or that concerns itself with the general topic of the "left" in the nsdap?
@Fender Player lol I've found some, but always seeking more my dude!
@Zoltanous HN thank you! It's very much appreciated my dude!
@Vitali Druzhinin dont mistake Otto with Gregor.
If there is one part of WWII that is underrepresented in academic history, it's the post-1934 SA. They were greatly diminished after 1934, but they didn't completely disappear until the rest of the Nazi party did.
They where a parade unit after thr the long knife
They even had their own Panzerkorps under the command of the Wehrmacht
@Schlomo Baconberg yes, it was called Feldherrnhalle
Well this was a historically refreshing first for me! You mean to say that ol' Ernst Rohm was an actual human being with his place in history? I had become used to him being briefly introduced as a sexual deviant cartoon and then quickly moving on to another topic.
SA were working class lads mostly as opposed to the "elite bourgeoisie" SS. Probably not loyal, prestigious or fancy enough once NSDAP rose to power. They used to call these type of guys 'steaks' in Europe at the time, brown on the outside, red inside
I love how you embed the stories of the various people you tell into the historical context of their lives.
Great video. I've watched many videos on Rohm and the SA and the night of the long knives. Yours with all of it's context is one of the best.
@@davids.654 I'm not obsessed with it I happen to just have an interest in WW2 history from both sides and it is somewhat interesting to see an in depth look at someone who was in many ways a pivotal player in the whole thing.
@@icalexander It's not fashionable to look at WW2 history from both sides.
Billiantly crafted, heavy on historical details, clearly narrated video. A must see for anyone with
even a passing interest in the Era, or the subject of the Weimar Republic and early Nazi Germany.
I would higly recommend this video.!!
Very Good Job sir, you are criminally underrated. Hope you will reach 200k very soon.
I love this comment
Got a chuckle from it
Whatever else you can say about Ernst Rohm, he died like a man. Quite unlike Lavrenty Beria, head of the NKVD, the intelligence agency and secret police of the USSR. Beria, in tears, fell to his knees and pleaded for his life before a Red Army general shot him in the head.
At the time of his death, the NKVD had changed names, and he was no longer head of it.
Ernst Rohm (Rerm) was not a mass murderer like Beria.
He did and was a decorated soldier in WW1 as was Goring.
@@richardcollier1912 Close. Try saying 'o' and 'e' at the same time, and you come up with a pretty good attempt at the "O-umlaut". I had trouble with it at first too.
@@DrGarri how do you figure he had it in him?
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In my mind, Röhm is by far the most interesting nazi. Openly gay, decorated soldier, fearless, ruthless, cunning and extremely effective in everything he did. And his very even relationship with Adolf, made him even more spetacular. Thanks for a great documentary!
Gay or pedophilic?
Some say Adolf let Röhm bust his cheeks
@@chrismc410 i can picture that happening
@@dying101666 some say Hitler evidently liked it too and thus a willing participant. One of the main reasons he had Röhm killed other than the manufacturered rumor France paid him to overthrow him and the fact he was openly gay, not good for Nazi image
@@chrismc410 Grow up.
What a great history lesson. Thanks!
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The interesting thing for me was his incredible Luck during the first world war (because he survived the spanish flu when others didn't and got promoted because of it)
Best way to rise on up the lines cause there's no one else to fill the spot lol
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Well presented and researched, back ground music perfect.
Thank you.
Well done. Thank you! I'd love to see a detailed bio on Robert Ley, another early member of the Nazi inner circle who isn't well known about but who wielded enormous power.
@@aaropajari7058 , yes! I have that book. It's the best, if not the only book on Ley. I used it for researching a novel I'm working on.
@@aaropajari7058 , yes, a lot of German workers put their money into that car and got nothing for it but war.
Ye scurvy knave. I see what you did there.
@@aaropajari7058 there was a book written by a man who by happenstance of world events met all the major national leaders of the future combatant nations.
He recounted having breakfast coffee and rolls with Hitler as Hitler was hearing the demands of the German navy for funds for construction of the battleship Scharnhorst as Hitler was still gazing at the accounts book of the "People's Car" paid production order subscriptions.
"There, there is the 300,000,000 marks needed. Right here." The writer reported Hitler as stating to his staff as he pointed at the amounts of the summed collected subscriptions.
I'd like to see 1 about Andre Riphagan too if the channel owner's listening.
Thank you for mentioning the uprising and the Munich Soviet Republic. That's a crucial point that no one speaks of.
Is this Mr. History Marche? - one of my fave YouT channels. Great video!!!
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Excellent overview but I would add a somewhat different perspective: Roehm and the SA were the true socialists in the Nazi party, the left wing with plans for nationalizing banks and industries, agricultural reforms etc. Most members came from the lower and working classes. They took socialist reforms seriously, e.g. the Strasser brothers. Consequently, the SA was feared by the right-wing of the Nazi party esp. the SS which tended to be from the middle and upper classes with the appropriate attitudes and beliefs. That difference drove the rightists to decapitate the SA and suppress it. There was a well-founded fear of Communism after the Eisner Coup and the Spartacists.
It's funny, if you read Mein Kampf, Hitler uses the word revolution in one way or another about every ten pages.
@@RenaissanceMan29 The nationalization of industries was one part of the Nazi plan to make the state all-powerful, and above all, subservient to Hitler. Industries were under complete control of the state and only nominally controlled by their actual owners, i.e. it was just a variant of socialist/communist statism. Roehm and the Strassers wanted direct nationalization and not a variant thereof. The fact is Nazi-ism is as much a left-wing philosophy as are socialism and communism - they are all statists - and should be avoided like the plague.
@@RenaissanceMan29 The Nazis did help the working classes a great deal - that was the socialist in National Socialism - but Roehm and the Strasser brothers wanted to go even further. There was never any doubt who had the final say in Third Reich economics - and it wasn't the industrialists. They had only nominal; control over their holdings. On this score, the difference between Nazi-sim and Communism was minimal. But *both* are totalitarian statism. Even today's socialists are on that track - just not so far down the line - yet. One of Communism's biggest lies is that Nazi-ism is a right-wing philosophy. It is left-wing on the same statist track as socialism and Communism.
In the book "Hitler's Traitor" the theory that Martin Bormann with Heinrich Muller's help single handily brought down the Third Reich ends with the 'why' but is ultimately ambiguous. Based on further analysis I believe that his real motive was revenge for Rolhms murder..☠
@@iankluge8051 kinda like modern China. That's a nice idea. USA should learn
We're in for a good one tonight lads!
For Hitler, killing his best friend is just a sacrifice he needs to make to remain in power. Remember, as chief of staff of the SA, Rohm was extremely popular and many SA members were more loyal to him than even Hitler. He was also anti-capitalist and felt that the Nazi Party is not doing enough to bring about the his idea of a national socialist revolution, and he also wanted the SA to replace the German army. Many prominent Nazi leaders such as Goring, Goebbels, Hess and Himmler were actually fearful of and hated Rohm because of how powerful he is. All these Nazis, including Hitler, knew that Rohm’s SA I’d powerful enough to remove them from power if he wanted. Keeping Rohm around would only mean a competitor to Hitler’s popularity and something which alienate large business owners and army generals, whose support is needed for Hitler to remain in power. Even though Rohm is perhaps Hitler’s last true honest friend, Rohm had outlived his usefulness to Hitler and became more of a liability than an asset, so he has to go.
Bravo one of the best documentary I have seen , very well detailed, keep up the good work ,,,
I enjoy your videos. Thank you for the great work
Absolutely brilliant and wellcraft great job guys
Thank you for this most interesting, factual documentary which is available in perpetuity for future interested history students. England, February, 2024.
Röhm outlived his usefulness to Hitler and was retired,
He would have sold out Germany to the USSR. Any nation would have gotten rid of him.
Rohm was homosexual and had many young soldiers as lovers which Hitler detested, it was against the very fabric of being Aryan creating pure white German Children with no Jewish blood either !
@@Biggles2498 Aryan?
@@cheltersful That was one of the Rules of being Aryan in that homosexuality was "verboten" in every sense of the word, same applies to ALL Members of The Church Of Scientology today !
@@helmortkuper2626 Give me a break, just say the truth its because he was a threat to Hitler and the fact he was gay made him a super easy target.
Brilliant outline of a highly decorated officer and survivor of the Monasteries of Fire, as Ernst Junger called the brutal experience of the war of trenches! The commentaries are sober, impartial and stress the historical atmosphere of the times. Some short newsreels showing the power and the demands of nearly a million men in the ranks of the SA who rightly believed that no taken of power would have been possible without their fight and sacrifice, could form a complementary film.
The SA in 1934 were waiting for a true Revolution to start but they were in no mood of rebellion. Congratulations and thank you.
Never forget this: Who does not know history properly will repeat it .....As always little people will pay the bill....again and again.....
@Dan Bertucci Read my comment above comparing the "peaceful protesters" with the SA thugs. As Hitler had a problem with his alliance having added the more establishment elements, the danger for the U. S. politicians in power today is similar. Will the government in power today authorize the elimination of the leaders who have the power to call out 400 "demonstrations" through text messages. or will their accounts be suspended?
night of the long knives is truly something out of a hollywood blockbuster, still surreal such an event happened
Is there any movie about it !? They should make one
@@pagodebregaeforro2803 tbh, I think there should be a biopic about Ernst röhm.
Yeah it would be gangsta I saw a movie clip of this from a doco on Hitler that was pretty cool
And something we desperately need here in Washington.
Hi, thankyou for this informative video on a piece of history that I find most fascinating aswell as horrific that now seems hard to believe.
At 13:25 . . .
ADOLF HITLER
1889-1945 (In Office 1934*-1945) *This is incorrect. Hitler was appointed chancellor on January 30, 1933.
Those dates refer to him being Führer of Germany, they are correct.
Al top nazis r jesuits homler,goering,goebbels,hess eichman, pope himself blessed by pope
Historians will eventually concede that Addie died not in the bunker in April 1945 but in Argentina in February 1962.
@@richardcollier1912 Only if they're completely incompetent will they assume that.
@@RobertJonesWightpaint Because of course there is no proof or even evidence that he or Eva Braun died underground. Just as there is no real proof that Bormann died in the Battle of Berlin. But there is a mountain of evidence that he, Eva Braun and Martin Bormann escaped to Argentina just as the Russians were closing in on the bunker.
“All Revolution devour their own children.”
Ernst Rohm
@@pyry1948 yep
@@pyry1948 Your welcome
That quote goes back to the French Revolution. But it sure applies to Röhm.
@@stefansoder6903 yep exactly
@@pyry1948 absolutely not his, the original is
"La révolution, comme Saturne, dévore ses propres enfants."
I think its Joseph de maistre
This documentary was excellent. it's the only one I've seen with the background on Rohm and the Frie Corps.
Excellent documentary, thanks!
Everything we always wanted to know about Röhm, but were afraid to ask..
Very informative and well presented
Another excellent episode. Thankyou.
Very interesting. Rohm learned far too late that the last thing he should have done was to trust Hitler. There truly is no honour amongst criminals.
He may been a calculating schemer but I think he knew his place and would of gladly accepted his role to the end.
that what happens when you sell your soul to the devil
Would have…..etc.
I don't think so. He was extremely upset at Hitler for Hitler's desire to essentially emasculate the SA. I don't think Rohm was plotting against Hitler, but he was very angry. It's hard to say what would have happened.
great video on an overlooked man. keep up the good work
indeed, this is the 1st time I have seen anything of him on line
evil done in by the very evil rohm supported now they are all hanging out where they belong in hell
The best documentary about Rohm and the S.A. I've seen..exellent💯
röhm was not killed because of any homophobic attitude on the part of hitler - he was one of hitler's most dangerous competitors with a would be army of 3 million s a men and he wrote about a continuation of the ns "revolution" - this alarmed hitler
What else did he want to do ?
Would love to see Strasser next!
I want a movie set in an alternate timeline where Rohm and Trotsky come to power
Many thanks for bringing these historical facts to the public so that we may have knowledge and we never forget. Also I think maybe Rohn would have at the end taken power away from Hitler.
*Röhm and yeah...that's a huge part of why they offed him.
Strasser also was a huge potential rival to Hitler.
Rohm was such a handsome man. It’s too bad he was killed by that barbarian Hitler. He could have gone on to do great things.
The introduction is misleading. Hitler couldn't care less about Rohm's homosexuality, or anyone else's, for that matter. They actually were brothers in arms from the beginning of the NSDAP. Hitler used the situation to stage Rohm. The real motive was Rohms growing popularity and power. Hitler disposed of someone he considered as a serious rival for his leadership.
True. Röhm was trying to deviate too far away from Hitlers original plans. He advocated for the military to join the SA ranks. It was impractical as the average soldier would likely not be fit to govern which would prove unruly and because Röhm was the SA’s leader it seemed like a ploy for him to gain more political assets for his own benefit which Hitler certainly wasn’t a fan of. There‘s also the fact that Rohm‘s homosexuality (as well as other SA members’ like Edmund Heines) was well known and used as ammo by political enemies against the Nazi Party. Hitler didn’t give a single damn about whether he was gay or not as he found his brilliance and ambition far too invaluable to lose up until his political opponents‘ rain of slander. Condemning it publicly would be a useful tool for getting socially conservative institutions, like the Church, back on his side, similar to how he claimed celibacy despite having secret relations in his private life. Day by day, Röhm was becoming more of a roadblock in his plans and it was very apparent that by this point Röhm was more useful dead than alive, despite their strong friendship. Seems cruel, but if anyone would backstab their best friend for political power, it would be Hitler.
In the larger sense, it's just pragmatism as they practiced it. Even without a threat to Hitler's power, Rohm, (like many others) would be discarded when and if he'd outlived his usefulness. These guys weren't shy about throwing people under the bus if it benefited them.
Thanks for the info.
Brilliant, did not know this man’s history, thank you.
Hitler: But hes my friend. / Aber er ist mein Freund.
Goebbles & Himmler: Do it! / Tu es!
Seems eerily similar to present day America. Economic hardship, social unrest, political unrest, flu epidemic, rise of communism, rise of right wing, confiscation of citizen gun rights. Hope it turns out better.
@@RenaissanceMan29 Leftism equally on the rise. "Reconstructed Marxism" is how they describe it.
You should know your allies.
Love the Munich views. I remember stumbling on the Odeonsplatz quite by accident while wandering the city and realizing where I was having seen it in historical footage.
I did the same thing. I suddenly looked around and realised that this was where the Putsch had happened and was stopped.
I think the 1 thing that cost him his life is not his revolting, disagreements with Hitler etc, but his homosexuality. Hitler knew he wasn't a threat and wasn't planning a coup, but having a homosexual no.2 undermined his authority and had him gone.
In disposing of Röhm, Hitler removed a rival who undoubtably would sooner or later have challenged him for the leadership of the party. Was Röhm smarter than Hitler? I tend to think so, which makes me wonder where we would be today with a Third Reich controlled by him.
Definitely no ! Rohm didn't have that ambition. Nor the skills. He had a soldier mind.
There are so many details about Röhm that i didn't know e.g. that he was openly gay and obviously Hitler knew. But after all the nazi gang lived through the roaring 20's! Judging from your merchandise I trust you are British. It's rare to hear someone from the other side of the North Sea at least trying to pronounce words and names in German. This is a very great video and I'm subscribing.
Ernst Rohm was former mother in law great uncle. They have same last name still. My ex husband looks so much like him too. 😬
That's interesting. I was thinking my Dad slightly resembled Rohm. My Dad was born in Munich. He was Jewish, tho.
I always heard he was defiant when they first burst in on his room. “What the hell is going on here”? Never putting his head down in shame.
Can’t get enough of these I’m
So happy
When you bring a new one out. Are you open to suggestions? Think I’d like to see bonnie Prince Charlie
He's on the list.
Great! I live beside Culloden Battlefield. 🏴⚔
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Class A research project!!! Orator presented the documentary very well. Rohm had his moments of glory/hour of pain. As did the other disillusioned reprobates vying for power.
Poor Rohmy. Betrayed and killed by Hitler just because he "might" be rival for power.
not the reason
Rohm demonstrated a little appreciated aspect of "power." Enter two observations:
"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely"
"No drug has ever been as addicting as POWER."
When 'power' exceeds the reasonably observed quality of 'responsibility,' taking on the quality of 'lust,' becoming essentially a source of pleasure, Lord Acton's 'absolute power' is seen.
It's doubtful that Rohm would have long allowed Hitler, or anyone, to restrain Rohm's penchant for 'power.' In the given time frame, Rohm was acting from his preexisting military/power experience, versus Hitler's far less military/power experience. Obviously, Hitler eventually caved in to his primal instincts, in extremis.
Power doesn't corrupt people, it unmasks them.
Also Rohm was into SM with young males in the SA, he wasn't just gay. Many at the hotel were dragged out of bed with their young male lovers and they were shot too. Leadership in the SA were seen as outside the acceptable norm. Especially, by the very straight Prussian Officer Corp.
When writing this, I decided to elude to it more than outright say it. While we agree that it did happen, I was afraid it would get the video demonetized, so i choose my wording very carefully to let the imagination take its course.
@@HistoricalPolitician Too pc
I’d rather the content be accessible than removed. Im not omitting the fact that he was gay and had “other” attractions. People are more than welcome to read through the sources I used and dig deeper, as I openly encourage it.
He was like "Uncle Monty" ....without the laughs.
Incredibly detailed.
He declared, "I'm not going to take this sitting down !!"
Ok he was homosexual,he was a brave old style fighter for the party who his detractors have villified,it's unlikely he was shamed when discovered in bed with his men,Hitler was fully aware of his inclinations.None of that stopped him being a highly decorated professional soldier.
Outstanding video!
Interesting, Rohm is mostly skipped over. The institutional/economic powers would not have embraced him! Would that changed, what became the worst regime in history?
Those saucy SA boys learnt a hard lesson, as it were.
They put hitler in power
Was a very hard lesson, the long and the thick of it, as it was said to be?
And so did the schoolboys that had more than a big sausage for their lunch, two big sausages, och. Well, as they said later, they were hungry and it filled a hole.
One can see a resemblance between the tactics of the stormtroopers and Antifa. Seems that fascists and anti-fascists employ the same tactics of intimidation and attacking both real and imaginary opponents.
the sa just came across a bad stroke of luck. they were really the cock of the walk.
"Funny you should mention Ernst Rohm..............", "@RomelNegut Maybe".
Nie try to fool me, sir! 😂
Wohahahaha!
@@PeopleProfiles 😂👏👏👏
The Life of Ernst "Gay" Röhm...🏳️🌈
Very informative and interesting, always thought Rohm was character..
How about doing one on Gregor Stasser
I’d love to see a documentary on Grand Admiral Doenitz
Maybe he was killed because he had "dirt" on high level party members who had "questionable" liaisons...
Jup the NSDAP was filled with freemasonic traitors. The SA who was filled with the patriotic common man was a threat tp aristocratic Hitler and his roman asskissing politics like the reichsconcordat of 1933 allowing catholicism back into germany
He definitely had dirt on the party he knew where the bodies were buried because he was the guy who buried them
He wanted to unite the Army and the SA with him in charge of both. The Army threatened a military coup if that happened.
He was too dangerous to just strip from power
@Schlomo Baconberg
What on earth gave you that impression?
Hitler was never an atheist, he despised atheist, and viewed atheism as something related to Bolshevism - he was a Christian, and very open about it!
He grew up as a Chatolic, and never left the Chatolic Church, although his own personal beliefs embraced Positive Christianity - a reformed branch of Christianity uniting Protestants and Chatolics, rejecting the Old Testament, and replacing the narrative of Jesus being a Jew with a Aryan Jesus.....
This branch of Christian theology would at the time get consolidated into the "Deutsche Christen" movement -and infuse it self into the Nazi movement.
Very poorly translated accounts of conversations Hitler had, where he expressed concerns about aspects of dominant Christian beliefs has been used by some non-German speaking Christian historians making highly biased claims against him and accusing him of being an atheist!
It is without a doubt emotionally based claims that basically can be cooked down to no-true-Scottsman" fallacy - and an attempt to "acquit" Christianity from having anything to do with Nazism!
However, it’s a fact that the theological thoughts of Positive Christianity predates Hitler, the Nazi movement, and the formation of the Nazi party - and it still has proponents today where it is a huge influence in the Christian Identity movement....
@@gorillaguerillaDK as well as in the U S
@Rick Vis
What he despised was the most common version of Christianity, where Jesus is a Jew.
Not the Aryan Christianity!
And even if it had been true, it still wouldn't have made him an atheist.
However, if you read his publicized conversations in German, and hold it in context to known historic facts, it is quite clear that he was not only a believer, but also a proponent of the Aryan Christ narrative that hitched on to the nazi movement in the form of the Deutsche Christen movement..
Great documentary thanks for posting and do one on Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin was a Soviet major general who served as the chief executioner of the NKVD
the story of Rohm's fall is only partly believable. Too much of it is either improbable or hard to believe. An excellent documentary, and thank you for putting it together.
Its true not partly believable
Germany has had a great choice of leaders - between one homosexual and another with questionable sexuality !!!!
Nice homophobia.
There have been/are many questionable leaders of a heterosexual persuasion!
@Frederick Wells It's not irony to say that Rohm was the most masculine of all major Nazi leaders.
@@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding Attempting to hang a "homophobia" label on anyone who points out the truth means you've lost the argument. At some point in time very soon, you'll be completely ignored.
@@utubetommy But I am not doing that?
I am sating it bevause he is saying that he is bad for being gay.
He was a German Rambo in world war one and after the war a Indiana jones type of explorer. An idea guy for sure but it didn't go his way.
Did I miss it, or did they speak of Ernst Röhme's utter fascination with young boys. Please read "The Order of Death's Head," by Heinz Höhne (1966).
Its thinly mentioned at the end and hinted at in the introduction with “compromising positions”. I did not include specifics when writing this so as TH-cam did not take it down or demonetize it. I did not read this book as part of my research for him, but there are others sources that do mention his party’s with young boys and other engagements.
"The Pink Triangle" goes into graphic detail about the Nazi fanooks lead by ER
@@christopherfritz3840 Yes, I have read it, and as I recall, homosexuality was called "Germany's National Vice". That type of behavior was very prevalent in Europe in the 20 & 30's. The book also mentioned two other aspects of this behavior... the Wandervogels (German Boy Scouts, or Wandering Birds) were founded by a 17 year old homosexual teen, and that Hitler used homosexual Beerhalls for his gatherings. One troubling current aspect of the Holocaust is many homosexuals claim they were "targeted" for extermination, which is simply not true. True, there were 5,000 to 15,000 homosexuals who died in the camps... both labor and extermination, but the 5K to 15K number of deaths hardly reaches the true numbers of homosexuals in any society, which is somewhere between 2%-3%. Out of a population of 65 million Germans at the time, that would mean that nearly 2 million homosexuals would have been killed to exterminate them. If you add the 15 million population from the Anschluss (the Annexation of Austria), that would mean that 2.4 million homosexuals would have been killed to "exterminate" them. As horrible as 5K to 15K deaths was, that number hardly reaches the level of Genocide against the homosexual population. Another troublesome fact is that some 3 million Christians also died during the Holocaust and are hardly ever mentioned, in addition to the 6 Million Jews that history has taught us died in that Pogrom. Yes, there were other groups with far lesser atrocities against them, including Jehova's Witnesses, Homosexuals, Gypsies, et al. Each and every death was a loss to that human being, as well as to society, so my intent is not to minimize the loss of any of the individuals in any of these groups. But truth should not be thrown out the window to satisfy the whims of those who would rewrite history.
He was as bent as a boomerang!
At least he was honest about his travelling ways.
He said, "I expect all of you to stand behind me !!"
He should have stayed in Bolivia.
But there weren't gay saunas in Bolívia. He really wrote blaming that place because this. Lol
Outstanding. I've heard all of the "highlights" about Rohm but never much detail. It does seem as though he had some thoughts of overall leadership in Germany. His closeness to Hitler was probably what kept him in power, and alive for as long as it did. The German military was fearful of the SA and the fact that Rohm wasn't easily controlled kept people fearful of him. Of course, his blatant homosexuality at a time when the Nazi's were singing a different tune was something that probably drove some others to really despise Rohm. Sometimes it seems like he was thumbing his nose at everyone and finally the pressure on Hitler became too great and that was the end of Rohm and the SA as it had come to be.
I love this narrator..in the shadows of Rohms death a horrific monster is born ... Himmler!!
The Triple Entente were the Allies in WWI: Britain, France, and Russia. Germany was in the Triple Alliance w/Austria-Hungary and Italy; Italy, of course, didn't join Germany & Austria-Hungary when war broke out in 1914, and instead entered on the Allies' side in 1915.
Good info..thx👍
Great video of an underrepresented period of information that outlines the political maneuvering of political party’s that ultimately created the Hitler Germany we all know from 1939.
A multiple watch is necessary-packed with information. I watched it three times so far during gym workouts. I think another three will solidify the sequence of events.
Its absolutely astounding just how many events spread out over decades had to happen to lead to nazi Germany
Fantastic work, you should do Leo Trotsky
Very good. Thank you
I especially love documentaries on the interwar period of the early Weimar republic, the extreme political violence in the streets and the numerous coups that were attempted.
WWI and WWII documentaries are a dime a dozen. Yes a lot of them are amazing videos, but you barely learn what happened between the two wars, except for a brief mention.
Certain societies and situations are so utterly lost, that even love gets the worse of names and fate.
Excellent video Sir. Everything Rohm touched came good, thats what was feared. I think he was shrewd, with all his resignations. I think that he would not have fell for Roosevelts/Churchills plans for Germanys destruction. Even how he died was great. He may have been a homosexual, but was still great Man. I knew nothing of the fellow until now, thank you for this.
l heard the rumour he is now where he belongs in hell
Whats with those weird helmets at 16:46? looks like they got the "shelf" part of the helmet cut off?
If he had replaced Hitler history would have been very different. Not necessarily better though.
Excellent documentary