Ernst Rohm Quotes

• Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.

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  Men, Hands, Years

  Ernst Rohm's address to Kurt Ludecke (January 1934), as quoted in H. Paul Jeffers "History's Greatest Conspiracies: One Hundred Plots, Real and Suspected, That have Shocked, Fascinated, and Sometimes Changed the World", August 1, 2004.

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• The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

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  People, Want, Submissive

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• All revolutions devour their own children.

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  Children, Politics, Revolution

  Ernst Rohm's remark in prison to Hans Frank (June 30, 1934), as quoted in Joachim C. Fest "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership", 1999.

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• He (Hitler) is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that you can see their behinds, that's what he likes, especially when they've got big round ones. That's Hitler's sex life. What a man.

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  Girl, Sex, Men

  "Getting Hitler Into Heaven". Book by John Graven Hughes and Heinz Linge, 1987.

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• The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

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  Destiny, History, Germany

  Ernst Rohm's SA summer furlough decree, "Völkischer Beobachter", June 10, 1934.

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• If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself!

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  Ifs

  Ernst Rohm's remark on the day he was killed, as quoted in Laura Ward "Famous Last Words: The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells" (p. 68), 2004.

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• If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.

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  History, Enemy, Nazism

  Ernst Rohm's SA summer furlough decree, "Völkischer Beobachter", June 10, 1934.

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