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Summer 2022 Militaria Auction
Lot 516:
ROHM ERNST: (1887-1934) Nazi Leader, a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung (Storm Battalion, SA). In 1934, as part of the Night of the Long Knives, Rohm was executed on Hitlerâ€â„¢s orders as a potential rival. A rare written card, Ernst, to one side of a plain German postcard, (Munich), 22nd September (1926), to Franz Kugler (â€ËœLoyal Franz!â€â„¢), in German. Rohm writes to inform his friend that from the 27th September â€ËœI will work 8 hours every day starting at 8 am as an apprentice in a factoryâ€â„¢, further remarking â€ËœUnfortunately this does not give me time to enjoy the Oktoberfest. If you come we shall have to meet in the evening after workâ€â„¢. Hand addressed by Rohm to the verso and again signed (â€ËœRohmâ€â„ ¢) with his surname only in the return address panel. One small area of paper loss to one corner, and with a light crease to the lower left corner, VG plus, In the aftermath of the failed Munich Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923 Adolf Hitler became distrustful of Rohm and his ambitious plans. When, in April 1925, Hitler disapproved of the proposals under which Rohm was prepared to integrate the 30,000-strong Frontbann into the SA, Rohm reacted by resigning from all political groups and military brigades on 1st May 1925. For the first time in his adult life Rohm was faced with the prospect of having to earn a living as an ordinary civilian. Rohmâ€â„¢s financial circumstances were not good and he began by working as a door-to-door salesman selling books for a right wing publishing house. He struggled in this job, and often found it painful and humiliating. As referred to in the present letter, in the autumn of 1926 Rohm was employed for two months in the Robel track building factory, a position found for him by Princess Luise of Sachsen-Altenburg. Despite Rohmâ€â„¢s claims that he did well and was considered for a leading position by the firmâ€â„¢s founder, he did not remain there, and details of his employment in 1927 are not known. RARE
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