He refers to scores of historical documents to support his thesis. Röhm, who was also gay, was murdered as a result, according to Machtan, a history teacher at Bremen University. The respected German historian Lothar Machtan even claims in his book that Hitler ordered the deaths of several high-ranking Nazis to prevent the secret of his homosexuality from surfacing.Įrnst Röhm, the leader of Hitler's Sturm Abteilung or Storm Troopers, tried to blackmail Hitler by threatening to reveal his sexuality.
