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Headline: Revolt Crushed By Hitler
Sub-Headline: Roehm Is Suicide And Von Schleicher Dies At Hands Of Police

Publication Date: Saturday, June 30, 1934
Historical Event: Hitler Purges Storm Troopers, Executes Opponents
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: Daily Advertiser
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: VIENNA, June 30. (AP)—High Austrian quarters said today that if, as reports from Berlin indicate, the Radical wing of the Nazi movement has really been squelched, there may be a rapid solution of the Austro-German quarrel.
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BEBRLIN[sic], June 30—Chancellor Adolf Hitler today crushed a still-born revolution.

Capt. Ernst Roehm, long his closest friend and his trusted leader of the Nazi storm troops, committed suicide when Hitler had him arrested as a conspirator.

Kurt Von Schleicher, Hitler's predecessor as chancellor of Germany, was killed by police when he resisted arrest as a conspirator.

Roehm was regarded as the most extreme leader of the Radical Nazid[sic]; Von Schleicher was the extreme reactionary who favored the restoration of the monarchy to Germany.

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 rear 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 when Hitler struck. Some of them committed suicide; some of them were killed resisting arrest.

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 said 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 deposed.
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