he unemployed, uneducated, and common criminals. As you can
see, they were a very diverse bunch. Roehm had full power over where
they demonstrated and protested. What was their cause? None really.
They were merely an idea of Hitler's to spread his popularity, as well
as the Nazi Party's. They roamed the streets of Munich, often drunk,
singing racist stanzas from songs, beating anyone they thought,
judging just from appearance who they thought was a Jew or a
Communist. Roehm screamed to the marching storm-troopers, "We will
brawl our way to greatness." He enjoyed violence for it's own sake,
and he is quoted as saying to reporters after they burned down a
kosher diner, in which he also had the left side of his nose shot off,
"Since I am an immature and wicked man, war and unrest appeal to me
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