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> # The day of Roehm's execution, Hitler blandly announced that he had 'relieved...Roehm of his position and ejected him from the Party', and under colour of this macabre euphemism appointed Viktor Lutze as Roehm's successor. But Lutze was no Roehm, and the SA was never again to play a significant role in the power politics of the Third Reich.

[Viktor Lutze](https://quotesby.net/Viktor-Lutze)\#6

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## About this quote

What does it mean?The speaker notes that after Roehm’s execution, Hitler announced his removal and appointed Lutze, but Lutze never restored the SA’s political significance.In plain termsLutze succeeded Roehm but the SA stayed marginal.What can you take from it?Leadership change does not guarantee restored influence.

### Where it applies

- organizational restructuring
- power shifts

### Putting it to work

- evaluate structural limits
- manage expectations after leadership change

### Questions to consider

- Why might a new leader fail to revive an organization?
- How does institutional inertia affect change?

### Another view

The statement reflects a specific historical perspective.

## More from Viktor Lutze

1. > Unfortunately Lutze allowed his wife and the family's friendship with Brauchitsch to manoeuvre him into excessive opposition to the SS. Everywhere he criticise…

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2. > SA boys received him coolly.

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3. > I must tell you first, in order to clear up any uncertainty about my own position, that I never speak primarily as a member of the S.A., but as a National Soci…

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