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I found a picture online of Ernst Roehm, but I cannot read German and cannot tell if it is copyrighted or not. Picture (http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/roehmbio/index.html)--Lucky13pjn 19:39, Jun 12, 2004 (UTC)
- It doesn't seem to say, so the first question is whether German published photos are like US ones, in having protection whether they assert it or not.
(Erich Retzlaff is the author of Wegbereiter und Vorkämpfer für das neue Deutschland, which means roughly "Trailblaer and Early Combatant for the new Germany"; DHM turns out not to be the publisher (which was probably a NSDAP house organ) but the "German Historical Museum", located in the former East Berlin.)--Jerzy(t) 17:47, 2004 Jun 13 (UTC)
German-language chronlogy of his life: [1] (http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/RoehmErnst/index.html)--Jerzy(t) 17:47, 2004 Jun 13 (UTC)
I think there is some discrepancies here. Rohm did not start the SA nor was he a member of it. Please check out Kampfbund and we need to coordinate the information accordingly.WHEELER 20:49, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Was Röhm really gay?
I've read both that he was gay AND that his homosexuality was fabricated as a pretext for his murder.
It's widely accepted that he was indeed homosexual. But this fact was known long before his muder, so it's not really reason for this.
- On the Night of the Long Knives, several witnesses, who were in the hotel when the SS and Adolf Hitler stormed in on Rohm's bedroom, testified in later years that Rohm was found with a young 16 year old boy in his bed. This apparently threw Hitler into a rage and he scramed that Rohm would die. The testimony is generally accepted as truthful and it was used in the manslaugter trial of Sepp Dietrich (one of several trials he udnerwent) where Dietrich was convicted of manslaughter for leading the Leibstandarte on the Night of the Longt Knives -Husnock 4Feb05
Here are some more references for Rohm's sexuality: Spartacus Schoolnet (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERroehm.htm) Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/04/20/was_hitler_in_closet_and_if_so_so_what/) Peter Tatchell (http://www.petertatchell.net/international/homophobia.htm) Simon Wiesenthal Centre (http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/resources/books/annual5/chap15.html) University of California (http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/homo/SanjeNaziExtermination.htm) Book catalogue (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786704233/002-0820274-5191251?v=glance&vi=reviews) The Guardian (http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/humanities/story/0,9850,508812,00.html) DJ Clayworth 17:30, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)