Edmund Heines
Edmund Heines (1897-1934) was a WW1 German lieutenant who belonged to the Freikorps Rossbach, and then was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). In the latter, he was one of the homosexual proteges of Ernst Roehm. Machtan writes he was one of Roehm's lovers in the 1920s. [1]
He wass expelled from SA 1927 for notorious homosexuality but reïnstated by Ernst Roehm as SA-Obergruppenführer for Silesia 1931, where he was associated with several murders. He also was a NSDAP Reichstag deputy. Heines had told counterintelligence investigator Walther Korrodi, in 1933, "Adolf hasn't the slightest reason to open his trap so wide — one remark from me and he'll shut up for good!"[2]
On the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler and his entourage surprised him with a male bedmate. [Joseph Goebbels]], who saw this, said "A disgusting scene, which made me fell like vomiting." Heines appealed to Victor Lutzeclaiming innocence, but Lutze said he could do nothing.[3] He was either shot on the spot, or shot with the first group.
His brother, Oskar, was also killed in the purge.
References
- ↑ Lothar Machtan (2001), The Hidden Hitler, Basic Books, p. 185
- ↑ Machten, pp. 211-212
- ↑ John Toland (1976), Adolf Hitler, Doubleday, p. 339