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- 1.Night of the Long Knives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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ight_of_the_Long_Knives
- 2.History Place: The Night of the Long Knives
- Discusses the 1934 purge of the brown shirted Nazi storm troopers, the SA (Sturmabteilung)
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what did night of long knives what did the night of long
knives mean to hitler and the
nazi's?
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29th-30th June – The Night of the Long Knives ·Stormtroopers had been loyal servants of the Nazi Party since their formation in 1921. ·When Hitler gained power, they became a problem – wanted to be given well paid jobs in the government. ·Their leaders wanted Hitler to merge the German army under the command of Ernot Rohm (SA leader) ·This would have horrified army commanders because they saw the SA as rabble ·Rohm had left wing views, which would offend the businesses that had helped fund Hitler in the period up to 1933. ·On 30th June 1934, Hitler ordered the SS to arrest and execute the leaders of the SA. |
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Was there any backlash from I realize Germans didn't have
much choice at the time, but
surely at least some SA
members/Strasserites must have
resented Hitler for purging
Rohm? Why didn't the average
German realize how vicious
Hitler was after the long
knives purge?
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Nobody liked the SA or Rohm, they were the swaggering, street-fighting "unacceptable" face of the Nazi party and half of them were homosexual too - it was seen as "good riddance to bad rubbish" and a praiseworthy thing for Hitler to have done. Now the country and the party could settle down to "respectability." Anyone who might have protested was cowed by the thought that they might be next. Also German society between the wars was very violent, and political murders (though not usually on that scale) were more or less commonplace. |
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Any one Help with the Night of Can some one please help me, I
need to describe the events of
the Night of the Long Knives,
June 1934.
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The Night of the Long Knives (German: De-Nacht der langen Messer.or "'Operation Hummingbird",) was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political executions, most of those killed being members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary Brownshirts. Adolf Hitler moved against the SA and its leader, Ernst Röhm, because he saw the independence of the SA and the penchant of its members for street violence as a direct threat to his power. Hitler also wanted to conciliate leaders of the Reichswehr, the official German military. They both feared and despised the SA and in particular feared Röhm's ambition to absorb the Reichswehr into the SA under his own leadership. Finally, Hitler used the purge to attack or eliminate critics of his regime, especially those loyal to Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, and to settle scores with old enemies. |
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