Hashasheen
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could Rohm have revolted against hitler and taken over the National Socailist Workers party?
then they would not necessarily have to FIGHT the army
That may be a bit of an academic point. The army basically ended up saying to Hitler 'you've got the chose between the SA and us.' Rohm's desire to create a 'folk-army' was inevitably going to result in some kind of rumble with the regular army sooner or later. Rohm may not have to fight the army immediately, but I don't say them staying as chums in perpetuity.
could Rohm have revolted against hitler and taken over the National Socailist Workers party?
Just because Röhm's views about the SA did not correspond with Hitler's, doesn't mean Röhm was in open revolt against Hitler.He did. Ernst Rohm was in open revolt against Hitler. He wanted the SA,
Sturmarbeitlung, (Storm Troopers,) to be the army of the Third Reich, under
the NSDAP's banner. In short, he wanted to get rid of the Reichwehr, Germany's military under the Weimar Constitution, and make the SA the party
army, not unlike the Red Army.
I don't know, but he did have a vicious hatred for communists, although he himself advocated a more socialist approach to the German economy.Did Röhm share Hitler's Aryanism and genocidal hate for certain peoples?
As I mentioned before, you can't just compare numbers here.The German army was outnumbered roughly forty to one. The SA had more combat veterans than the army. Please remember, this is only fifteen years after every able bodied male in Germany had carried a rifle.
By 1939 the Army would eventually have beaten the SA because the army was much larger, the SA had lost most of their people to the Army and the SS, and the army now had armor, artillary, aircraft, etc.
In 1934? No contest.
Now if the Army/Conservatives had enrolled the socialists and communists in their alliance and attacked the SA, they would have won. The Nazis were outnumbered seven to three in the best election they ever had.