Legends 74: Snake in the Grass
3/2/202626 min
Trust holds much of the world together. When it's broken, it can lead to unspeakable crimes, which can often result in frightening legends.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Alex Robinson and Aaron Mahnke, and research by Jamie Vargas.
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[gentle music] It's fair to say that Ernst had very bad taste in friends. To be fair to him, he was quite literally the leader of the original Nazi Party. Those fellows weren't really known for their good judgment. Even so, not many people say that they had a close personal friendship with Adolf Hitler, and when I say that these men were close, I mean it. In fact, Hitler was one of the few people who knew that his friend was, in fact, same-sex oriented. Ernst Röhm kept that particular secret under wraps until his political enemies released his private letters to the public in 1932, although most historians agree that the evidence points to Hitler already being aware, although that wouldn't be enough to save Röhm