The Archive · 1934

Reorganization Ordered

Berlin, July 2.

Police General Daluege yesterday was charged with the task of reorganizing the National Socialist Storm. Troop sections in Berlin, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Eastern Prussia, Silesia and Central Ger-

Berlin, July Bye-witnesses of the executions of Commander Karl Ernst, Chief of the Brown Army in Berlin; Herr E. Heines, the Silesian leader, Count Spret, group leader at Munich; and other' Storm Troop leaders, to day ave a graphic description of how they were executed.

Most of the rebels met their death bravely, Some of them wept but none asked for mercy. Several of them, including Commander Ernst, declined to be blindfolded.

ander Ernst's last words T die for my leader and Germany."

The bodies of the executed lead-cers will be given to their relatives for burl Munich was reported to be quiet to-day, although there was animated discussion over the execution of Captain Roehm.

That the execution of Captain Roehm was personally ordered by Chancellor Hitler was indicated by a statement made at Munich by Herr Lutze, the new chief-of-staff of the Storm Troops, who said yesterday: "The Fuenrer, alone, will determine the fate of Roehm."

Herr Lutze declared that his main task is, to build up the Storm Troops "as a purely political organization," which was taken as implying that the much-criticized military aspects of the "Brown Shirt Army" are to be abandoned—United Press.

Berlin, July 3.

has now been ascertained that Herr Gregor Strasser, a former Nazi leader, was among those shot for their part in the revolt, He was one of Herr Hitler's ablest lieutenants in the early days of the Nazi Party. Later, he became almost a rival in the race for power and then went off into a side-track, 'The Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Franz von Papen, is now mo longer under @etention.' Yesterday evening, he was seen naving an animated talk in ther street with Gen. Goering.

"their conversation lasted sri hour, and. Dr. von. Papen is believed t0 Have ceeded In. exonerating.him-felt from complicity in the couter-Dot. "itis reported that he will Fe-ain in the Cabinet, but in another by. enormous fathered' in the Withelmstrasse and, held back "by "armed. police, waited for hours until the Chancellor" apeared at_'a window to. saint platoon "of "the "Goering Watch" Swinging past.

Ar soon as he appeared, " thunder. ascended and the crowd tired—Reuter.

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