Overview - Der Röhm-Putsch

Overview

The documentary play reconstructs the backstory of the so-called “Röhm Putsch”, during which a few hundred people got killed, depicts the intrigues between the Reichswehr (German army) and the SA, and draws an image of the character of Röhm who, prior to Hitler’s accession to power, was his friend but later got pushed more and more into the background and eventually was disposed of. Röhm, captain during the 1st World War, organisational talent, daredevil, and one of the ‘discoverers’ of the corporal Hitler, was the central figure in the secret power struggles in the just established Hitler state. He demanded a ’second revolution’ and wanted to unite the million-man army of the SA and the Reichswehr under his leadership…

Cast

• Name: Hans Korte

  Character: Stabschef der SA Ernst Röhm

  Popularity: 0.1657

  

• Name: Helmut Fischer

  Character: SA-Obergruppenführer August Schneidhuber

  Popularity: 0.2461

  

• Name: Dieter Kirchlechner

  Character: SA-Obergruppenführer Edmund Heines

  Popularity: 0.3351

  

• Name: Wilmut Borell

  Character: SA-Obergruppenführer Fritz von Kraußer

  Popularity: 0.0864

  

• Name: Hans Zander

  Character: SA-Gruppenführer Karl Ernst

  Popularity: 0.0998

  

• Name: Arthur Brauss

  Character: SA-Gruppenführer Gruber

  Popularity: 0.4192

  

• Name: Kurd Pieritz

  Character: SS-Oberführer Theodor Eicke

  Popularity: 0.0642

  

• Name: Friedrich G. Beckhaus

  Character: SS-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich

  Popularity: 0.3349