VOELKISCHER BEOBACHTER, SPECIAL EDITION,
1 JULY 1934, PAGE 1
Munich, 30 June
Roehm excluded from the party and the SA.
The Reich press bureau of the NSDAP reports the following decree issued by the Fuehrer:
As of today I have relieved the chief of staff Roehm of his position and have ejected him from the party and the SA. I am appointing Lieutenant General Lutze as chief of staff. SA Lead-
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ers and SA men who don't obey his orders or who oppose him will be ejected from the SA and the party and consequently will be arrested and convicted.
Signed: Adolf Hitler Highest Leader of the Party and the SA
The Fuehrer to the neto Chief of Staff:
Munich, 30 June 1934
The Fuehrer has sent the following letter to Lt. General of the SA, Lutze:
To Lt. General Lutze
My Dear SA leader Lutze!
The gravest failures on the part of my former chief of staff have compelled me to relieve him of his position. You, my dear Lt. General Lutze, have for many years in good and bad days been an always reliable and ideal S.A. leader.
If I am appointing you today as chief of staff it is done with the conviction that you will succeed through your reliable and obedient work in making of my S.A. the instrument which the nation needs and which I imagine.
It is my wish that the S.A. be built up as a reliable and strong part of the national socialist movement. Full of obedience and blind discipline, they must help to create and form the new German citizens.
Signed: Adolf Hitler
Extracts from a newspaper, including Hitler's decree appointing Victor Lutze as SA head (replacing Roehm) and his letter to Lutze on the need to serve as "reliable and strong" part of the regime, with "obedience and blind discipline"
Authors
Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)
Adolf Hitler
Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)
- Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
- Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
- Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
- Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
- Member of: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
- Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin
Date: 30 June 1934
Literal Title: Excerpts from: Voelkischer Beobachter . . . Roehm excluded from the Party and the SA.
Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2407
Citation: IMT (page 1742)
HLSL Item No.: 451353