What was the Importance of the Night of the Long Knives?

- Known as Operation Hummingbird

-June 30th, 1934, Hitler got rid of the opposition that existed to his leadership within the Nazi party. 

- Hitler had the ** arrest and shoot 400 leading members of the SA

- This included the leader, Ernst Rohm

- Rohm had been beginning to threaten Hitler's leadership.

- Thought Hitler's policies were changing Germany too slowly.

- Wanted the SA to replace the army. 

- The ** exterminated 400 SA men- Hitler said only 70 were killed!