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The Blomberg–Fritsch affair, also known as the Blomberg–Fritsch crisis (German: Blomberg–Fritsch–Krise), was the name given to two related scandals in early 1938 that resulted in the subjugation of the German Armed Forces to Adolf Hitler.
In 1929, Blomberg came into conflict with General Kurt von Schleicher at the Truppenamt and was removed from his post and appointed military commander in East Prussia.
Mar 9, 2015 · Blomberg and his wife went into exile in Capri and Hitler made himself Supreme Commander of the armed forces. Fritsch was accused of homosexuality – a crime under Section 175 of the Criminal Code. He was brought before Hitler, Goering and Himmler and accused to his face.
Aug 19, 1999 · Six years later, in January 1938, Blomberg sought the Führer’s permission to remarry. Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German high command and Blomberg’s former deputy, wrote of the episode from his jail cell at Nuremberg in October 1946, while he was awaiting execution as a war criminal.
- Blaine Taylor
In January 1938 Blomberg was forced by Hitler to resign after it was revealed that his young bride had earlier posed for pornographic pictures. Speculation has always existed that Hitler and Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe (German air force), used the scandal as a pretext to allow Hitler to take personal control of the army.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In early 1938 he used Blomberg’s marriage to a former prostitute and Fritsch’s alleged homosexuality as pretexts for removing both of them from office. Moreover, Hitler used the “Fritsch-Blomberg Affair” to carry out a profound restructuring and reorganization of the military and foreign policy leadership. He dissolved the Ministry of ...
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May 10, 2003 · She was a stenographer at the time she met von Blomberg. In addition to having been a prostitute she also had posed for pornographic photos. After he was sacked they retired to the town of Wiessee in Bavaria.
