WI the Night of the Long Knives went wrong?

IMO he wouldn't go to the USSR. He may have been more 'socialist' (actually populist would be a better description IMO) than some of the rest of the Nazis, but he'd spent his whole adult life fighting the communists.

In the unlikely event of him escaping the slaughter and making it across the border, I can't see the French, British or any western European country handing him back to be murdered.
Defecting to the Soviets would be an odd move, but necessity can create strange alliances. The fact that Roehm is likely to be solidly anti-Hitler might be enough to soften his dislike of communism in the face of a shared enemy.

I would agree that France or Britain would not extradite him to Germany, but I doubt they would let Roehm settle down either. Captain Poplar's comparison to Trotsky seems like a good way to encapsulate Roehm's position; like Trotsky, Roehm and the problems he brings with him will not be welcome in Western Europe. He will probably end up wandering until he's somewhere he thinks is far beyond the reach of the Nazis.
 

King Thomas

Banned
Although he has 3 million men, first, getting the message out to them to rise would be hard, second, they joined the SA because they were Nazis, and he would be asking them to rise against their own Fuhrer;most would refuse to do such a thing.
 
As ASB it may sound, the Soviet Union may be one of the few escape routes open to Rohm.

Even if Rohm was clearly anti-communist, and had a major responsibility in the fall and destruction of the KPD, he would be an card Stalin would love to have in his game : a wonderful baragining chip if the Soviet-German Pact can't be avoided or is politically desirable ; a convenient source of information on Hitler ; the possible figurehead of a pro USSR anti-Hitler network in Germany that would be less compromising to anticommunist Germans AND not favourable to the West... At least, a useful tool against Hitler.

As for Rohm, he could eventually appreciate the Stalinist version of Communism, especially the later one, extremely nationalistic, agressive, prone to antisemitism, or even support some European form of Maoism if he survives Stalin. Think about Malaparte : began as a Fascist, died with his member card of the Communist Party.

France and the UK seem out of question to me : Rohm would have been a liability with each country's diplomacy towards Germany. However, Rohm, if he keeps a low profile, might seek asylum in the USA, as Strasser eventually did (but he went to Canada...).
 
The idea of Rohm fleeing abroad is a fascinating one.

I very much hope someone with the necessary knowledge and skills writes something along these lines.
 

Typo

Banned
Although he has 3 million men, first, getting the message out to them to rise would be hard, second, they joined the SA because they were Nazis, and he would be asking them to rise against their own Fuhrer;most would refuse to do such a thing.
The SA was overwhelmingly consisted of men who did not like the Corporatist part of the Nazi ideology
 
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