Question: Which co-founder of the "Sturmabteilung", the Nazi Party's militia, was shown on close and intimate terms with Adolf Hitler in the propaganda film Der Sieg des Glaubens?
Context: The Golden Party Badge (German: "Goldenes Parteiabzeichen" , officially the "Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der NSDAP"; Golden Medal of the National Socialist German Workers' Party) was a special badge of the Nazi Party.  The first 100,000 members who had joined and had uninterrupted service in the Party were eligible for the badge (these were denoted by the party members' number stamped on the reverse).  Other Golden Party Badges (with the initials 'A.H.' stamped on the reverse) were awarded at the discretion of Adolf Hitler to certain members of the party who merited special treatment.  An identical badge was awarded each year on 30 January to persons who had shown outstanding service to the Nazi Party or State.  Only 20,487 men and 1,795 women were actually approved for and awarded the badge (outside of the ones Hitler awarded at his discretion). Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens ) is a 1935 German propaganda film directed, produced, edited, and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl.  It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters.  The film contains excerpts from speeches given by Nazi leaders at the Congress, including Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher, interspersed with footage of massed Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) troops and public reaction.  Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles.  The film's overriding theme is the return of Germany as a great power, with Hitler as the leader who will bring glory to the nation.  Because the film was made after the 1934 Night of the Long Knives (on 30 June) many prominent Sturmabteilung (SA) members are absent—they were murdered in that Party purge, organised and orchestrated by Hitler to replace the SA with the Schutzstaffel (SS) as his main paramilitary force. The Nazi salute or Hitler salute (German: "Hitlergruß" – literally "Hitler Greeting") is a gesture that was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany.  The salute is performed by extending the right arm from the neck into the air with a straightened hand.  Usually, the person offering the salute would say ""Heil Hitler!""  (Hail Hitler!) , ""Heil, mein Führer!""  (Hail, my leader!) , or ""Sieg Heil!""  (Hail victory!) .  It was adopted in the 1930s by the Nazi Party to signal obedience to the party's leader, Adolf Hitler, and to glorify the German nation (and later the German war effort).  The salute was mandatory for civilians, but was mostly optional for military personnel who retained the traditional military salute until shortly after the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in July 1944. The Nuremberg Rally (officially "   ", meaning "Imperial Party Convention") was the annual rally of the Nazi Party in Germany, held from 1923 to 1938.  They were large Nazi propaganda events, especially after Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933.  These events were held at the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg from 1933 to 1938 and are usually referred to in English as the "Nuremberg Rallies".  Many films were made to commemorate them, the most famous of which is Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" and "Der Sieg des Glaubens". Heinrich Hoffmann (12 September 188515 December 1957) was Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.  Hoffman's photographs were a significant part of Hitler's propaganda campaign to present himself and the Nazi Party as a significant mass phenomenon.  He received royalties from all uses of Hitler's image, even on postage stamps, which made him a millionaire over the course of Hitler's reign.  After the Second World War he was tried and sentenced to four years in prison for war profiteering.  He was classified by the Allies' Art Looting Investigators to be a "major offender" in Nazi art plundering of Jews, as both art dealer and collector and his art collection, which contained many artworks looted from Jews, was ordered confiscated by the Allies.  He recovered the art in 1956 by order of the Bavarian State. Hitler's Chancellery, officially known as the Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP ("Chancellery of the Führer of the Nazi Party"; abbreviated as KdF) was a Nazi Party organization.  Also known as the "Privatkanzlei des Führers" ("Private Chancellery of the Führer"), the agency served as the private chancellery of Adolf Hitler, handling different issues pertaining to matters such as complaints against party officials, appeals from party courts, official judgments, clemency petitions by NSDAP fellows and Hitler's personal affairs. Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith, Victory of Faith, or Victory of the Faith ) (1933) is the first propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl.  Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred in Nuremberg from 30 August to 3 September 1933.  The film is of great historic interest because it shows Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm on close and intimate terms, before Röhm was shot on the orders of Hitler during the Night of the Long Knives on 1 July 1934.  All known copies of the film were destroyed on Hitler's orders, and it was considered lost until a copy turned up in the 1990s in the United Kingdom. During the final weeks of the Third Reich and the war in Europe, many civilians, government officials and military personnel throughout Nazi Germany committed suicide.  Aside from high-ranking Nazi officials like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Philipp Bouhler and Martin Bormann, many others chose " Selbstmord" (German: "Self-murder" ) rather than accept the defeat of Germany.  Studies have shown that the suicides were influenced through Nazi propaganda (reaction to the suicide of Adolf Hitler), the tenets of the Nazi Party, and the anticipated reprisals following the Allied occupation of Nazi Germany.  For example in April 1945, at least 1,000 people killed themselves and others within 72 hours as the Red Army neared the East German town of Demmin. Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (] ; 28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer and an early member of the Nazi Party.  As one of the members of its predecessor, the German Workers' Party, he was a close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler and a co-founder of the "Sturmabteilung " (SA, "Storm Battalion"), the Nazi Party's militia, and later was its commander.  By 1934, the German Army feared the SA's influence and Hitler had come to see Röhm as a potential rival, so he was executed during the Night of the Long Knives. Der Marsch zum Führer (English: The March to the Führer ) is a Nazi propaganda film released in 1940.  It depicts the nationwide march of Hitler Youth (HJ) to Nuremberg for the Nazi Party Rally.  Unlike the earlier Leni Riefenstahl Nuremberg documentaries, it does not focus on the Party congress itself, or on Nazi leaders, who are not shown until the very end of the film.  Instead, it follows HJ boys from various parts of Nazi Germany beginning their journey, camping along the route, being taken in by helpful families on the way and marching through cities in formation, saluting and carrying the swastika banner.
Answer: Ernst Röhm