HITLER AND I

turbance and took the road to Munich with Uhl, who
was also wakened from sleep and bound, and Roehm,
that crebeP who was so 'dangerous5 that he had not
even provided himself with a bodyguard.

CI surprised the revolutionaries/ Hitler said in his
Reichstag speech after that sinister day, referring to
Roehm and his friends. But had he not himself
authorized them to meet? Had he not promised to
attend their meeting? What was the surprise? Their
private vices? He had known all about them for years.
Hitler surprised a gang of conspirators who wove their
plots against him in bed. They were fast alseep. What
prowess!

All the cars of the S.A. leaders on their way to
Roehm's meeting at Wiessee were stopped by the S.S.
and their occupants arrested.

Hess had taken over the Brown House at Munich.
The S.A. guard was imprisoned and replaced by S.S.
men.

The day of reckoning had come. Paler than the
night before, Adolf went to the prison yard at Stadl-
heim. He looked at the prisoners lined up there. They
were his old comrades-in-arms, and several were
heroes of the Great War. 'Dogs!' he shouted at them,
'Traitors! Let them die, every one of them!'

And Buch noted against the name of each, death,
death, death.

Here were Peter von Heydebreck, a brave officer,
the hero of Annaberg; Wilhelm Hayn, also an ex-
officer, a hero of the Baltic; Fritz, Ritter von Krausser,

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