Braunschweig 1931

On October 18,1931, the SA in public gave its unqualified support to Hitler, and despite earlier revolts by certain elements in the previous months, never again wavered from that loyalty. For a time in 1930, it looked highly unlikely that there would be an SA rally in Braunschweig to pay homage to Hitler. With industrialists money he had acquired in 1929, Hitler re-equipped and enlarged his SA. He bought the famous Brown House in Munich on the Briennerstrasse, which he had redesigned as Party Headquarters. Inside it was stunningly impressive, at least by Nazi standards. The conference room was garish red leather and the black and red entrance. The hall was highlighted with swastikas. Needless to say, the SA man from the country who stumbled into "his" Party Headquarters came away very impressed! But also possibly very depressed, because many of the SA were in dire straits. While Hitler was decorating the Brown House, the situation was changing rapidly. On March 27, 1930 the Muller coalition resigned and Henrich Bruning, head of the Catholic Centre Party, succeeded him and promised to cure the economic problems of inflation and unemployment, but the Nazis and Communists voted against it in the Reichstag. When his partners refused to vote with him, he dissolved the Reichstag and called for new elections for September 14th. Ernst Rohm, Hitler's long-time ally, was in Bolivia assisting that country in training its army. The SA, back in Germany, was exhausted from non-stop campaigning and "getting nowhere fast", to use a current descriptive phrase. The SA men were unpaid, hungry, many beginning to literally starve. So the districts under Oberster SA-Fuhrer Ost, Walther Stennes, went on strike. Hitler raced from Munich to Berlin, because if the revolt continued, or spread, all would be lost in the September elections. Hitler went from group to group, begging, pleading, even sobbing... men were angry, frustrated and, hard to believe today, one SA-Fuhrer actually grabbed Hitler and shook him! But Hitler quieted the men. He determined Rohm was the one man who could corral the uneasy SA and decided to call him back. In the meantime, he quietly took a step (totally unnoticed by the outside world) which assured his ultimate control of the SA. He named himself Oberster SA-Fuhrer on September 2, with second in command to be the Stabschef answerable only to him. Meanwhile there were the elections. Thirty million Germans went to the polls in September, 1930 and startled the world by making the Nazis the second largest party in the Reichstag with 107 seats. A total of 6,409,000 votes were cast for the Nazis. This was heady stuff for Hitler, who was pursuing his personal goal with a vengeance. The SA was venting its fury... it wanted a bloody revolution, fiot legal maneuvering, and it wanted the revolution now. Under those circumstances Rohm returned as Chief of Staff of the SA on January 5,1931, answerable only to Hitler. Stennes wasn't through; he continued to fight for economic aid to the SA men in Group Ost, but it was a losing battle... he read in the paper that he had been deposed. Hitler knew he needed Rohm and Rohm knew he needed Hitler. Goebbles and Goring felt threatened by Rohm's position next to Hitler and cleverly acquired some "love letters" the homosexual Rohm had written, and had them published in the newspapers. Rohm could have been impaled by the events, but he wasn't. Hitler came to his rescue with a statement that included these words, "the SA is not a moral institution for the education of well-to-do-daughters, but an association of rough fighters". In Braunschweig, just 10 months after Rohm's return, Hitler received the salute of more than 100,000 loyal followers. He seemed to sense that this was the "true beginning" of his awesome power.

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[sas5844]

wielkość tak siła tak ale co było potem wiemy ...krew i łzy czy byli zwycięzcy ????????

[XRATED1984]

@btsvEintracht ehm das ist schwarzweiss??? was bist dun fürn honk^^ und weiss nicht ob ein konsumtemepl schöner ist als ein echtes schloss^^

[MYRWX]

I do not care if Ernst Rohm was gay or not. He was extremely effective in everything that he did. He had an excellent service record and sacrificed much for Germany long before Nazi party came to power. I can not say that I agree with everything the SA did or how they did it. What is undeniable is that the SA was instrumental to the success of the party. The elimination of Ernst Rohm and his organization was a mistake. Sieg Heil ! My German Brothers.

[SchwarzeSSSonne]

"Spähet durch die Sternenwelt

Aufschaut zum Haupte des Stiers,

des geflügelten Recken,

Die Lanze er bringt.

Aus dem Haupte des Stiers,

Hilfe euch kommt in Drangsal und Not,

der Artgleichen Waffe."

[btsvEintracht]

das schloss sieht heute viel geiler ausschnöde graue zeit damals

[kluka9]

ales gut!!!

[12boromir]

 SVEN HASSEL!!!

...idiots..!

[MrDeutschland1871]

SIEG HEIL

Auf ein 4. Reich

[bspowerful]

an hallo 1521

warst du schon einmal in bs oder kennst du jemanden in bs.

ich glaube nicht sonst würdest du soeinen quatsch nicht behaupten.

[MusicPredominates]

@feldjaeger82 : My freunde.The story of Hitler will never be told until the world ends.