Evening star., 1934-06-30
H|TLERPUTSDOWN
NAl REVOLUTION
Blood Shed in Berlin as
Brown Shirts Are
Routed.
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the mutiny leaders is behind the bars.
Der Fuehrer will address the Ger
man people and the storm troops to-
night or possibly tomorrow.
"Today's events make no differ
ences in the leave of absence for the
storm troops during July. The brave
storm troop men will go on leave as
planned
I'VE warned these gentlemen again
and again against second revolu-
ton. Now it was we who made 1t
and not they.
That second revolution now is
ended.
The state and the party will be
purged and cleansed The position
OF der Fuehrer is purer than ever.
While he shows patience fer
long time. yet when he strikes he
strikes hard and decisively. AS for
myself, you know me well enough to
realize that l. too. do not wear silk
gloves or that I hesitate.
Wants Support Aired.
Il attach the greatest Importance
to having you tell the world that the
state and the people are unreservedly
behind their leader.
The storm troop organization is
part of our movement, but it was
never to be an end IN itself"
ITO attempt to make it such must
needs lead TO failure,
The storm troops will receive new
leadership, and whoever opposes that
leadership will be arrested"
The Prussian premier then read
two communiques from Chancellor
Hitler. The first OF them read:
Il have today removed Chief OF
Staff Roehm from his position and
thrown him out of the party and the
storm troops.
Il name as chief of staff and su-
preme group leader Lutte.
Storm troop leaders and storm
troop men who do not obey his or
ders or who act contrary to them
will be removed from the storm
troops and the party or arrested and
judged.
NSlSIltub Ii LI1AN.
Supreme Party and Storm
Troop Leader"
1t may be recalled that Roehm has
been the only one of Hitler's associates
who. in public communications and
addresses. calls the chancellor by
the German familiar "du"-thou.
Old Friendship Ends.
Hitler thus parts company with one
of his oldest friends and companions.
The second communica ton read by
Goering was letter to the new Chief
of Staff Lutte. 1t read:
The most heavy default by my
chief of staff has compelled me to
remove him from his position.
You, my dear Supreme Group
Leader Lutte, have for many years.
in good and bad days. been an ever
equally faithful and model storm
troop leader.
If today name you chief Of staff,
l do it in the firm conviction that.
through your faithful and obedient
labors you will succeed in making out
of my storm troops the instrument
that the nation needs and that
have in mind:
1T is my wish that the storm
troops shall be transformed into a
faithful and strong link in the chain
constituting the National Socialist
movement. Filled with the idea OF
obedience and blind discipline, 1t
must help to form a man"
AS the streets of Berlin were
patrolled by police armed with rifles
and equipped with steel helmets, Hit
lers inner circles of guards appeared
in force, apparently supervising opera
tions at brownshirted headquarters
and subheadquarters.
Members of the Reichswehr the
regular army and a detachment OF
Hitler's special guard the Schultz
Staffel, were known to have sur
rounded the brown house" in
Munich-the NaN headquarters.
Many Arrests Rum0red.
Large numbers of arrests through
out the country were rumored, al
though there was no confirmation
Immediately.
Certain sections of the National So
ciaIists CNazi) party were reported to
be in open revolt against the party.
Ultra were said to be
heading the rebellion.
The state police OF Premier Goer-
ing and Hitler's elite blackshirters-
the Schultz Staffel-were in evidence
before the secret police headquarters
and In surrounding streets.
Besides the official buildings In Ber-
lin, special police guarded such build
ings as the Columbus House On Pots
damerplatz and all Nazi party sub
headquarters.
Only properly credentialed persons
were admitted to these buildings. The
Columbus House is the headquarters
of the Nazl Office for cultural affairs.
Won Schleicher, who preceded Hitler
as the head of the German govern
ment, was killed as police attempted
to arrest him as conspirator against
the government.
His government lasted Sc days and
was the shortest regime since the last
Imperial cabinet under Prince Max
Won Baden, which fell before the 1918
revolution.
The resignation of Won Schleicher
came on January 28, 1888, after Presi-
dent Won Hindenburg refused to give
him authority to dissolve the Reich
stag and assume dictator's rule.