Night of the Long Knives
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- Night of the Long Knives
- SA and Rohm
- SA led by Rohm - 3mil members who only answered to Rohm - internal threat
- Had reputation of radicals and thugs
- Waiting for a 'further revolution' - expected Nazi regime to take up more radical approach
- Rohm wanted SA to be incorporated into new 'Wehrmacht' - replace German Army
- Hitler needed support of elites - 'legal revolution'
- Hindenburg (non-Nazi) could stop all Hitler's plans by handing power of to the German Army - Hitler needed military strength for foreign policy
- Antagonising generals would be fatal - Hitler had to remove Rohm
- Hindenburg (non-Nazi) could stop all Hitler's plans by handing power of to the German Army - Hitler needed military strength for foreign policy
- June 30th 1934
- Alleging that Rohm was plotting a putsch - June 30th Rohm and many other leaders shot by Himmler + **
- Purge of Nazi leaders - feared parliamentary SA had become too powerful - Hitler ordered murder of 100s who were threats to Hitler's power
- Army generals who opposed contamination of the army with SA - impressed by efficiency that opponents had been eliminated
- Legality
- Enabling Act enabled massacre under guise of legality
- Nazis justified measure as implementing necessary security measures
- Significance of Night of the Long Knives
- July 1st 1934 - Hitler addressing Reichstag outlining 4 Dangerous Groups e.g Communists/Bolsheviks, Former Political Party Leaders, Leftist Revolutionaries by Rohm etc
- Hitler - 'In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people'
- Major shift in the development of Hitler's dictatorship - had triumphed over Left and Right
- Hitler had tamed the radicals and won support of the elite - some generals proposed the army an oath to tie Hitler and the army together
- 2nd August 1934 - Death of Hindenburg
- All soldiers now took new oath of loyalty to the Furher - army now chained to Hitler
- July 1934 - ** was now independent from SA - under Hitler's direct and personal command
- Hitler had gained acceptance of the legalised murder of his opponents - warning to others - many accepted Furher would only act for the good of the nation
- July 1st 1934 - Hitler addressing Reichstag outlining 4 Dangerous Groups e.g Communists/Bolsheviks, Former Political Party Leaders, Leftist Revolutionaries by Rohm etc
- SA and Rohm
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