Himmler was one of many who did not limit their paramilitary activities to a single unit. He joined several, but attached himself in particular to Captain Ernst Röhm in the Reichsflagge, and when this organisation split, he followed Röhm into the Reichskriegsflagge. Röhm was, of course, one of the key figures in the nationalist movement. He was channelling secret Army funds via two ostensibly private companies into the groups he supported, which included the Nazi Party and its fighting arm, the SA, now led by the first-war air ace, Hermann Göring. In August 1923 Himmler joined the Nazi Party;
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