Why did he kill Röhm and the SA?

They'd outlived their usefulness

>>508917221 (OP)
They were rabid nigger who outlived their usefulness. If all you bring to the table is a willingness to commit violence and follow orders you're only really useful for so long.

>>508917221 (OP)

I want to play with his corpse.

>>508917221 (OP)
Same reason the heckin' Emperor of Mankind destroyed his Thunder Warriors, they were gay retards who lusted for bloodshed and couldn't be trusted with more cognitively intense tasks

https://youtu.be/Gx5mSBlLWsM?si=3H1KQLdOgRDmH9tS

>>508917468
You can find a woman's skull in Moscow. Jews have pull there I'm sure you can fuck it

>>508917396
That willingnes to commit violence might have been useful at stalingrad.

>>508917221 (OP)
He was in a coalition with the monarchists and the Army liked the monarchists and Rohm was a fat homosexual and they all thought there was a decent chance he and some of the Monarchist party that didn’t get a portfolio were gonna do a coup with his brown shirts.
Hindenburg basically told him to get the homos under control or he’d declare martial law and end the Nazis and rule himself.

>>508917221 (OP)
He used his wotanic power to divine if Rohm should be removed. They found Rohm in bed with two teenage boys when they stabbed him.

>>508917221 (OP)
Highly radical SA diverging from Hitler's political strategy of cooperating with traditional German elites. Also, Rohm was a raging homosexual.

>>508917221 (OP)
He killed Roehm because the German military, the Wehrmacht, demanded the neutering of the SA as the price of their loyalty, so that Hitler could have absolute power in the Third Reich.
The military brass did not want to have to compete with the paramilitary SA. Roehm wanted the SA to be like a citizens' militia for the defense of Germany. The Wehrmacht leadership would not agree to that, so Hitler had to choose between Roehm and the SA, on one side, or the military's loyalty on the other side.
Hitler sided with the military so that the military would swear allegiance to him. Once the Night of the Long Knives was over, Hitler's power was absolute.

>>508918150
Yeah, but why straight up murder them? The SA could have been dissolved peacefully.

>>508917221 (OP)
The SA was basically formed by former Freikorps members and leaders and more or less had their own ideology and their own loyalties. They worked with the nazis because the nazis were the only ones standing up to the communists.

The Freikorps had traditionally been in a political rivalry with the ruling prussian elite, and those prussian elite formed one of the other pillars of Nazi political power. Prussian militarists had lost their status and power with the revolution and they wanted it back.

Hitler used the Freikorps remnants to fight his battles for him when he had no legitimate power to call on actual military resources. But once he gained power the prussians could serve him openly and there was no need for an ideologically divergent radical militia who was directly at odds with the political power of his new military.

The freikrops were courted with promises of compromises once hitler took power but those compromises were fundamentally incompatible with the vastly more important promises made to other parts of the nazi power base, so as soon as they outlived their usefulness they were culled.

Was it the right thing to do? Probably not. Hitler was not known for being politically astute and had a habit of making unnecessary enemies.

>>508917221 (OP)
Damn his nose is fucking huge

.. all of the above, plus, Röhm was (like Drexler and the Strassers) actually a fiscal socialist. Hitler was not, but kept the term in the party name because it lured in the working class.

>>508918524
Show of force; sending a message down the ranks.

>>508918524
>Yeah, but why straight up murder them?
Because that's how the Fuehrer, and the SS that participated in the Night of the Long Knives, rolled.
(The SS also wanted the SA neutered, so that the SS could become the most powerful institution in the Reich.)

>>508918755
You realized this only now?

>Volume 2: Chapter 8, The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone.

psychopath

>>508920569
Nope, just a regular German.

>>508920682
no air conditioning

>>508918886
>.. all of the above, plus, Röhm was (like Drexler and the Strassers) actually a fiscal socialist. Hitler was not, but kept the term in the party name because it lured in the working class.
This is very true.

>>508918524
>>508918611
Hitler did them dirty. Pretty sad. None of this would have been possible without the SA

>>508921507
The poor always lose. A story as old as time.