Steakley, James. Röhm was not involved with the Sturmabteiling until after he returned from a trip to Bolivia, but he did work to create armed militia units. He was deeply involved in hoarding arms and shipping weapons into Austria in defiance of the most humiliating terms of the Versailles Treaty, but was never caught. (Röhm: Die Geschichte eines Hochverräters, Franz Eher Verlag, Munich 1928)."Homosexuals and the Third Reich", Jewish Virtual Library