The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02

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of the Brown Shirts" said the
decree, will be severely pun
iShed."
It is now admitted that in
Munich the Nazi Storm Troop
leaders were lined up against the
wall and shot by firing squads in
the hearing Of the Nazi Storm
Troop leader Roehm.
General Kurt Daluege, leader of
the picked blackshirted troops in
Berlin, the S. S. (Schutz Staffle) f.,
was appointed temporary COM
mander of the Berlin Storm Troops
NEW YORK.-The Fascist die
tatorship in Germany attempted to
solve the crisis within its own
ranks, and among the capitalist
rulers of Germany, by wholesale
massacres on Saturday of Storm
Troop leaders and other militarists.
The slaughters in Munich, Berlin
and Bremen, only the most meagre
details of which were allowed past
the Nazi censorship, were the pre-
lude to the setting up of an open
military dictatorship in order to
take the most drastic measures
against the great and growing
revolutionary upsurge among the
German masses which has reached
into the ranks of Hitler's own Storm
Troops.
These Storm Troops were the
forces that brought Hitler to
power. They provided he mass
base for his movement. The fact
that he is now compelled, by the
rising discomfort in their ranks, to
shoot down sections of them, shows
how desperately Hitler is driven to
narrow the social base that brought
him to power Hitler, and the
finance-capitalists and junkers be-
hind him, are forced to murder and
disband the great mass force upon
which they climbed to power This
means that the future development
of Filters policy will be to extreme
terror against the discontented
masses, particularly against the toll
ing masses. He not only lopS off
some of his former trusted leaders,
but is forced to slash away the
screen of demagogy by means of
which he previously attempted to
shield the real ruling forces behind
faScism.
Troopers Unreliable
The EaZi battalion had become
unreliable for the further preserva-
ton OF the Fascist dictatorship.
The slaughter took place on the eve
of the disbanding of the Storm
Troops, in order to terrorize the
rank and file, and to mark an end
to all pretenses at demagogy.
Before all communication with
Germany was shut of from the rest
of the world, and all borders closed,
the dispatches coming out of the
country revealed the following:
Early Saturday morning Hitler
made flying trip to Munich where
he had arranged a conference of
Nazi Storm Troop leaders. The
Brown House, Nazi central head
quarters was surrounded by picked
forces armed with rifles and ma
chine guns, and the occupants were
butchered. The exact number killed
is not revealed, but the estimated
number is from so to 100 and only
the names Of the most outstanding
top leaders are published. Some
are alleged to have committed
suicide" Simultaneous action was
taken in Berlin and Bremen. Other
cities as yet do not figure in the
news.
In Berlin, the Nazi General Her
mann Wilhelm Goering, Premier OF
Prussia, led the actions which re-
suited in the killing of General Kurt
Won Schleicher and his wife, and in
/ the slaughter of Count Wolf Helm
rich Heldorf, Nazi police president
of Potsdam
Captain Ernst Roehm, comman-
der of the Storm Troopers, and fol
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and advisers, was reported to have
committed suicide" at sanato.
rum near Munich.
Heinrich Klausmer, chief of thu
Catholic Action party, was slain By
gunfire under the direction O.
Goering.
Shot Discredited Chiefs
The whole action had been care.
fully planned and grew out O
m on h S Of preliminary clashe,
among the top forces ruling in thu
Fascist dictatorship. The most dis
credited of the Nazi Storm Troor
leaders were Topped off as sigma
for an attack against the rank ant
file and to terrorize them from an,
counter actions.
In the process, the armed forces
of fascism were recognized, tbs
great masses of Storm Trooper
being disarmed The Steel Helmet
had been reorganized, and th
Schultz Staffel, the picked black
shirted troops of the Hitler regime
were used as the spearhead, to
gether with the police force, in tn
move to set up the more closely
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