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Headline: HITLER STAMPS OUT REVOLUTION IN GERMANY
Sub-Headline: HEADS OF THREE FACTIONS OPPOSED TO REGIME DEAD AFTER CONSPIRACY IS BARED

Publication Date: Saturday, June 30, 1934
Historical Event: Hitler Purges Storm Troopers, Executes Opponents
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: The Richmond Palladium
Location: Richmond, Indiana
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: BERLIN. June 30.—(AP)—Heads of the three groups regarded as opposed to Chancellor Adolf Hitler today died violent deaths as the German leader smashed a "second revolution" in Germany.

Capt. Ernst Roehm. National Chief of the Nazi Storm Troops, committed suicide when Hitler had him arrested as a conspirator against the Government.

Former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, leader of the Reactionary Conservatives and Monarchists, was killed "resisting arrest" as a conspirator.

Heinrich Klausmer, chief of the "Catholic Action" Party, was killed in his office by one of Hitler's special black-shirted guards, a Schutzstaffel member.

When Von Schleicher was killed, his wife, Frau Elizabeth von Schleicher was also slain in the fracas that went with the arrest.

Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, the man who two weeks ago warned Hitler that a second revolution led by Extremists was impending, was taken into "protective custody" but soon released.

The Reichswehr — the National Army—was ordered to be in readiness throughout Germany.

Reichswehr soldiers, armed with machine guns, marched down the great boulevard, Unter-den-Linden, in the heart of the nation's capital.

The soldiers reinforced heavy details of police who were scattered throughout the city, wearing steel helmets and armed with rifles.

Besides Roehm, a number of other storm troop leaders were dead within a few hours of the time when Hitler struck. Some of them committed suicide; some of them were killed resisting arrest.

Linked with "Foreign Power"
The Nazi Party announced that Roehm was arrested because he was a conspirator, in League not only with von Schleicher, but with "a foreign power" and was, furthermore, of such an immoral character that he brought discredit upon the Nazi movement.

The announcement said that when Roehm and other leaders were arrested under Hitler's personal direction, these leaders were found engaged in "a spectacle which was so sad morally that every trace of pity must needs vanish.

Not only was Roehm thrown out—to die—but Capt. Karl Ernst, leader of the storm troops at Berlin, was summarily disposed.

Premier Herrmann Wilhelm Goering of Prussia announced that he was carring[sic] out drastic police action on Hitler's personal orders against Nazi storm troop leaders attempting to force a second German revolution.

His measures, he said, were extended in two directions—against absolute reactionaries and absolute radicals.

"In order that no false news might get out," Goering told a meeting of

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