In addition to the sketches of the twelve apostles, there are other interesting chapters in the book dealing with what the author calls the frame of the National Socialist Party: how it came to be built up with the assistance of numbers of men who were subsequently. brutally murdered. The name of Captain Ernst Rochm, who was shot by Hitler in 1934, is well known as one ils chief adherents. He was one of Hitler's staunchest supporters, "He was devoted to Hitler, loved him and worshipped him, but He, like the bulk lof National Socialists, was brutal, lacking in restraint, a pleasure-secker and bloodthirsty, and, what is perhaps in Germany considered a minor failing, he was a pervert and homosexualist. He was ortol and sadistic, but he was a patriot and a man and tone of those who helped most to build up the National Socialist Party into what it has become. Yet i spite of his devotion and all he did for Hitler, Hitler had no compunetion about shooting him.
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