 Röhm resigned or retired from the "Reichswehr" on 26 September 1923.Throughout the early 1920s, Röhm remained an important intermediary between Germany's right-wing paramilitary organizations and the "Reichswehr".Additionally, it was Röhm who persuaded his former army commander, Colonel von Epp, to join the Nazis, an important development since Epp helped raise the sixty-thousand marks needed to purchase the Nazi periodical, the "Völkischer Beobachter".