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Edmund Heines | Edmund Heines (1897-1934) was a WW1 German lieutenant who belonged to the [[Freikorps]] [[Gerhard Rossbach |Rossbach]], and then was a member of the [[Sturmabteilung]] (SA). In the latter, he was one of the homosexual proteges of [[Ernst Roehm]]. Machtan writes he was one of Roehm's lovers in the 1920s. <ref>{{citation | ||
| title = The Hidden Hitler | |||
| author = Lothar Machtan | |||
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=-54Cnu8SsnwC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=%22The+Hidden+Hitler+%22+Rohm&source=bl&ots=naCYYThq0g&sig=7TM0fhwIJWVtnnVSAqaugjpChEU&hl=en&ei=UJTwTI_COcP48AaC_cSqDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Hidden%20Hitler%20%22%20Rohm&f=false | |||
| publisher = Basic Books | |||
| date = 2001}}, p. 185</ref> | |||
He wass expelled from SA 1927 for notorious homosexuality but reïnstated by [[Ernst Roehm]] as SA-Obergruppenführer for Silesia 1931, where he was associated with several murders. He also was a NSDAP Reichstag deputy. Heines had told counterintelligence investigator Walther Korrodi, in 1933, "Adolf hasn't the slightest reason to open his trap so wide — one remark from me and he'll shut up for good!"<ref>Machten, pp. 211-212</ref> | |||
On the [[Night of the Long Knives]], Hitler and his entourage surprised him with a male bedmate. [Joseph Goebbels]], who saw this, said "A disgusting scene, which made me fell like vomiting." Heines appealed to [[Victor Lutze]]claiming innocence, but Lutze said he could do nothing.<ref name=Toland>{{citation | |||
| author = John Toland | publisher = Doubleday | year = 1976 | |||
| title = Adolf Hitler | |||
}}, p. 339</ref> He was either shot on the spot, or shot with the first group. | |||
His brother, [[Oskar Heines|Oskar]], was also killed in the purge. | |||
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Revision as of 01:04, 13 December 2010
Edmund Heines (1897-1934) was a WW1 German lieutenant who belonged to the Freikorps Rossbach, and then was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). In the latter, he was one of the homosexual proteges of Ernst Roehm. Machtan writes he was one of Roehm's lovers in the 1920s. [1]
He wass expelled from SA 1927 for notorious homosexuality but reïnstated by Ernst Roehm as SA-Obergruppenführer for Silesia 1931, where he was associated with several murders. He also was a NSDAP Reichstag deputy. Heines had told counterintelligence investigator Walther Korrodi, in 1933, "Adolf hasn't the slightest reason to open his trap so wide — one remark from me and he'll shut up for good!"[2]
On the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler and his entourage surprised him with a male bedmate. [Joseph Goebbels]], who saw this, said "A disgusting scene, which made me fell like vomiting." Heines appealed to Victor Lutzeclaiming innocence, but Lutze said he could do nothing.[3] He was either shot on the spot, or shot with the first group.
His brother, Oskar, was also killed in the purge.
References
- ↑ Lothar Machtan (2001), The Hidden Hitler, Basic Books, p. 185
- ↑ Machten, pp. 211-212
- ↑ John Toland (1976), Adolf Hitler, Doubleday, p. 339