The documentary play reconstructs the backstory of the so-called “Röhm Putsch”, during which a few hundred people got killed, depicts the intrigues between the Reichswehr (German army) and the SA, and draws an image of the character of Röhm who, prior to Hitler’s accession to power, was his friend but later got pushed more and more into the background and eventually was disposed of. Röhm, captain during the 1st World War, organisational talent, daredevil, and one of the ‘discoverers’ of the corporal Hitler, was the central figure in the secret power struggles in the just established Hitler state. He demanded a ’second revolution’ and wanted to unite the million-man army of the SA and the Reichswehr under his leadership…
as Stabschef der SA Ernst Röhm
as SA-Obergruppenführer August Schneidhuber
as SA-Obergruppenführer Edmund Heines
as SA-Obergruppenführer Fritz von Kraußer
as SA-Gruppenführer Karl Ernst
as SA-Gruppenführer Gruber
as SS-Oberführer Theodor Eicke
as SS-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich
as Generalmajor Ferdinand von Bredow
as General Kurt von Schleicher
as Generalmajor Walter von Reichenau
as Justizminister Dr. Hans Frank
as Wirt
as Reichswehrgeneral
as Röhms Adjutant in Bolivien
as SA-Mann
as SA-Mann
as Generalleutnant von Kleist
