Who was the interviewee in an interview arranged by a co-founder of the the "Sturmabteilung" for British journalist Sefton Delmer in 1931?
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Sefton Delmer Denis Sefton Delmer (24 May 1904 – 4 September 1979) was a British journalist of Australian heritage and propagandist for the British government. Fluent in German, he became friendly with Ernst Röhm who arranged for him to interview Adolf Hitler in 1931. During the Second World War he led a black propaganda campaign against Hitler by radio from England, so successful that he was named in the Nazis' Black Book for immediate arrest after their invasion of England.
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Ernst Röhm Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (] ; 28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer and an early member of the Nazi Party. As one of the members of its predecessor, the German Workers' Party, he was a close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler and a co-founder of the "Sturmabteilung " (SA, "Storm Battalion"), the Nazi Party's militia, and later was its commander. By 1934, the German Army feared the SA's influence and Hitler had come to see Röhm as a potential rival, so he was executed during the Night of the Long Knives.
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Meeting at Hendaye The Meeting of Hendaye, or interview of Hendaye took place between Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler (at the time, Caudillo of Spain and Führer of Germany respectively). It occurred on October 23, 1940 at the Hendaye railway station in Hendaye, France, near the Spanish-French border, attended by the Foreign Affairs ministers, Ramón Serrano Súñer of Spain and Joachim von Ribbentrop of Nazi Germany.
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Hans Schimpf Hans Schimpf (1890 – 10 April 1935 in Breslau) was a German Navy, (German: "Kriegsmarine" ) officer and intelligence officer during World War II. During the Second World War, he help co-found on instruction from the Reichsluftfahrtministerium, the Signals intelligence organization, the Forschungsamt (Abbr. FA) , along with Hermann Göring and Gottfried Schapper. He was responsible the organization between 1933 to 1935.
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Peter Smollett Harry Peter Smollett, OBE (1912–1980), born Hans Peter Smolka and sometimes continuing to use that name as a "nom de plume" even after he changed it by deed poll, was a journalist for the "Daily Express" and later a Central Europe correspondent for "The Times". During the Second World War, Smollett became head of the Russian section at Britain's Ministry of Information and was responsible for organising pro-Soviet propaganda. He was later identified as a Soviet agent.
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Wilhelm Sollmann Friedrich Wilhelm Sollmann, later William Frederick Sollmann (1 April 1881 – 6 January 1951) was a German journalist, politician, and interior minister of the Weimar Republic. In 1919, he was on the staff of the German delegation that was to receive the Treaty of Versailles. In 1933, he emigrated and eventually moved to the United States where he became an advocate for the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
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Truppführer Truppführer (] , "troop leader") was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in 1930 as a rank of the "Sturmabteilung" (SA). Translated as "Troop Leader", the rank of "Truppführer" evolved from early "Freikorps" titles which traced their origins to World War I.
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Untersturmführer Untersturmführer (] , "junior storm leader") was a paramilitary rank of the German "Schutzstaffel" (SS) first created in July 1934. The rank can trace its origins to the older SA rank of "Sturmführer" which had existed since the founding of the SA in 1921. The rank of "Untersturmführer" was senior to "Hauptscharführer" (or "Sturmscharführer" in the Waffen-SS) and junior to the rank of "Obersturmführer".
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Heinrich Heim Heinrich Heim (15 June 1900, Munich – 26 June 1988, Munich) was a lawyer and NSDAP "Ministerialrat" who transcribed and co-published with Werner Jochmann transcripts of Adolf Hitler's informal talks, known colloquially as "Hitler's Table Talk". Heim's version of the table talk was published in 1980 under the title "Adolf Hitler Monologe im Führerhauptquartier 1941-1944". Heim's edition relied upon the original German notes, recorded by Heim from 5 July 1941 to mid March 1942, and August–September 1942. According to German historian Clemens Vollnhals, from a "source-critical point of view, the most reliable version of the "Table Talk" remains Werner Jochmann's edition of 1980."
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Emil Beier Karl Emil Oskar Beier (* 29 November 1893, Setzdorf; † 12 May 1985, Fulda) was a German Nazi politician and SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945). From 1940 to 1945, he was the mayor of Ostrava, Czechoslovakia.
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Franz Halder Franz Halder (30 June 1884 – 2 April 1972) was a German general and the chief of the "Oberkommando des Heeres" staff (OKH, Army High Command) from 1938 until September 1942, when he was dismissed after frequent disagreements with Adolf Hitler. Until December 1941 Halder's military position corresponded to the old Chief of the General Staff position, which during World War I had been the highest military office in the German Imperial Army. Halder's diary during his time as chief of OKH General Staff has been a source for authors that have written about such subjects as Hitler, World War II and the Nazi Party. In William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", Halder's diary is cited hundreds of times.
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Bernhard Stempfle Bernhard Stempfle (1882 in Munich – 1 July 1934) was a Catholic priest and journalist. He helped Adolf Hitler in the writing of "Mein Kampf". He was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives.
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Ted Simon Ted Simon (born 1931) is a German-born British journalist noted for circumnavigating the world twice by motorcycle. He was raised in London by a German mother and a Romanian father.
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Richard Sorge Richard Sorge (October 4, 1895 – November 7, 1944) was a Soviet military intelligence officer, active before and during World War II, working as an undercover German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. His codename was "Ramsay" (Russian: Рамза́й ).
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Walter Schreiber Dr. Walter Paul Emil Schreiber (21 March 1893 – 5 September 1970) was a German medical military officer in World War I, a brigadier-general ("Generalarzt") of the Medical Service of the Wehrmacht and a key witness against Hermann Goering during the Nuremberg Trials.
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Joseph Morton (correspondent) Joseph "Joe" Morton was an American war correspondent for the Associated Press (AP) in the European Theater during World War II. On December 26, 1944, a Nazi counter-partisan unit named "Edelweiss" stormed a log cabin high on Homolka Mountain in today's Slovakia which housed 15 Allied intelligence officers, a Slovak officer, a Slovak-American interpreter, two Slovak civilian resistance fighters, and Morton himself, covering an OSS operation in the country for a story. Although the Allied officers were duly uniformed and Morton had a war correspondent ID in order to be treated as prisoners of war according to the Geneva Convention (1929), the SS headquarters, in compliance with Commando Order, which stated that all Allied commandos should be killed immediately without trial even those in proper uniforms, ordered the summary execution of Allied officers and others caught in the act. On January 24, 1945, Joseph Morton, along with 13 Allied officers, was executed at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. He was the only Allied correspondent to be executed by the Axis during World War II.
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Leadership ranks of the Sturmabteilung Leadership ranks of the Sturmabteilung were the titles and positions held by the commanders of the "Sturmabteilung" (SA) of the Nazi Party between the years of 1920 and 1945.
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Karl von Oberkamp Karl von Oberkamp (30 October 1893 – 4 May 1947) was a German Waffen-SS commander and war criminal during World War II. During his SS career, he commanded the SS Division Prinz Eugen, the SS Division Nibelungen and the V SS Mountain Corps.
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Nazi Party Chancellery The Party Chancellery ("Parteikanzlei"), was the name of the head office for the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), designated as such on 12 May 1941. The office existed previously as the Staff of the Deputy Führer ("Stab des Stellvertreters des Führers") but was renamed after Rudolf Hess flew to England in an attempt to negotiate a peace agreement without Hitler's authorization. Hess was denounced by Hitler, his former office was dissolved, and the new Party Chancellery was formed in its place under Martin Bormann.
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Wilhelm Ruppert Friedrich Wilhelm Ruppert (2 February 1905 – 29 May 1946). An SS trooper in charge of executions at Dachau concentration camp, he was, along with others, responsible for the executions of British SOE agents Noor Inayat Khan, Madeleine Damerment, Eliane Plewman and Yolande Beekman.
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Eva Braun Eva Anna Paula Hitler ("née" Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for fewer than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was a 17-year-old assistant and model for his personal photographer; she began seeing him often about two years later. She attempted suicide twice during their early relationship. By 1936, she was a part of his household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden and lived a sheltered life throughout World War II. Braun was a photographer, and many of the surviving colour photographs and films of Hitler were taken by her. She was a key figure within Hitler's inner social circle, but did not attend public events with him until mid-1944, when her sister Gretl married Hermann Fegelein, the SS liaison officer on his staff.
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Edmund Heines Edmund Heines (21 July 1897, Munich – 30 June 1934, Stadelheim Prison) was a Nazi Party leader and Ernst Röhm's deputy in the Sturmabteilung or SA.