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>The SS found Breslau SA leader Edmund Heines in bed with an unidentified eighteen-year-old male SA senior troop leader. Hitler ordered both Heines and his partner taken outside the hotel and shot.[36] Goebbels emphasised this aspect in subsequent propaganda justifying the purge as a crackdown on moral turpitude.[38] Meanwhile, the SS arrested the other SA leaders as they left their train for the planned meeting with Röhm and Hitler.[39]