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SA/Roehm faction: Socialists, leftists, VERY gay, and highly agitated at the rightwards swing of the;
SS/Hitler: Fascists, semi-rightist, VERY anti-gay and, after the Blood Purge, the dominant power within the Nazi party.
The Nazi Party began its' life as an explicitly leftist organization under the leadership of Earnst Roehm, whose followers were beginning to split with the Hitlerite faction over the orientation of National Socialism. Hitler and Himmler decisively put a stop to that sort of dissent, mostly by executing or assassinating almost the entire SA during what we now call the Night of Long Knives, or in Germany the Blood Purge. This established the Nazi party as firmly in the Fascist camp and led, among other things, to more formalized alignment with the Fascists of Italy, who had -always- been rightists, and who had previously been put off the Nazis by the leftist and openly homosexual mores of the Sturmabteilung and their leadership.
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