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    In fact I had no idea how his name was written. Oh God, there’s pages of them . It was like searching the jungle in the dark. I decided to look at the ones that sounded convincingly Germanic. I was puzzled by his accent. He spoke perfect English, but was obviously foreign.
     
RÖHM, Ernst
ROHMER, Eric
ROEHM, Gustave
     
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RÖHM, Ernst (1887–1934) Hitler’s SA Chief of Staff in the early 1930s. 1906 Maximilian Grammar School – Abitur. Fought in the First World War. Wounded three times. Promoted to rank of Captain in 1917. General Staff in 1918. Disillusionment with post-war society, Treaty of Versailles, etc. Spring 1919, Röhm joined the Freikorps Epp. Supporter of right-wing parliamentary and extreme nationalist organizations in Bavaria. German Workers’ Party. First meeting with Hitler, 1920. NSDAP.
     
    What’s that? Must be the Nazis.
     
Autumn 1923, Beer Hall Putsch.
     
    Why’d they try to take over a beer hall?
     
Röhm’s dismissal from the army and a 15-month jail sentence. Release 1st April 1924. Hitler still in prison. Orders Röhm to form the SA, April 1925. He withdraws from the NSDAP and from active politics. Military adviser in Bolivia from 1928 until 1930.
     
    They’re always finding elderly Nazis in South America.
     
September 1930 Reichstag Elections. Hitler recalls Röhm as SA Chief of Staff from 1st January 1931. SA attracts 800,000 members in 2 years. Street terror and propaganda.
     
    Hitler’s thugs, I suppose. We did all this for GCSE History. Can’t remember the beer hall business. I expect it’s crucial.
     
Röhm’s ambition: the SA as a nucleus for a people’s army. Hitler consolidates his power in the state. Röhm’s homosexual circle and their excesses. Click here for detailed information.
     
    Ah, all this is coming back to me. But Hitler knew all along that Röhm was homosexual. It was only used as an excuse to get rid of him. Anyway, there’s something seriously queer about the Nazis, even our English teacher said so. Does this interest me? Yes, it does rather.
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June, 1934. ‘Night of the Long Knives’: Röhm was arrested and, after refusing an invitation to commit suicide, shot dead in Munich’s Stadelheim prison on 1st July 1934 by the SS.
     
    So much for Röhm. But imagine issuing invitations for suicide. We are having a suicide party tonight. Please wear appropriate clothing and bring your own weapons. Next?
     
ROHMER, Eric (1920–) French film director.
     
    Can’t be right? My Night at Maud’s, Claire’s Knee? Knee? None of this is relevant .
     
E ARLY C AREER / B IBLIOGRAPHY / O N -L INE I NTERVIEWS / S UMMARIES OF HIS F ILMS : Delicate interpretation of the novella by Heinrich von Kleist Die Marquise von O . Directed by Eric Rohmer who also wrote the screenplay (1975) Janus Artemis Films du Losange & United Artists Starring Edith Clever and Bruno Ganz, 102 minutes.
     
    Kleist? Oh yes, we’re doing one of his plays for A-level. I didn’t know he wrote short stories. He’s difficult. Feels very modern. Not nineteenth century at all. Thomas Mann admired his style. That’s a bad sign.
     
Aristocratic Marquise von O. finds herself pregnant but retains no memory of ever having been seduced. She is repudiated by her family. Advertises for the father of her child.
     
    Advertises? That’s as bad as issuing suicide invitations .
     
Distraught, handsome army officer arrives. She refuses to speak to him. Her final capitulation. ‘Why did you repulse me as if I were the devil?’ ‘Because when you first came to me, I took you for an angel.’
     
    This is nothing but Prussians with crazy codes of honour .
     
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ROEHM, Gustave (1755–1786) eighteenth-century Swiss botanist. Alpine explorer. Lost during the