Sturmabteilung
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Cap eagle of the sturmabteilung (sa) and the nsdap, 3reichoriginal read more
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It was also an opportunity to settle personal scoresthe sa's ruthless bullyboy tactics played no small part in hitler's establishment of a dictatorship that was to influence affairs in germany - and the world - throughout the s and beyondthe night of the long knives was a cull that eliminated somewhere between 300 and a thousand victims, the exact number has never been clear, many of them innocent of any intention to rival hitleroxfam books & music olney the book is otherwise as newin some respects the purge was inevitableabove all it was the sa that the army, the industrialists and, more than anyone else, adolf hitler fearedprevious owner's name has been obscured with a label on the title pagethe night of the long knives broke the back and the will of the sturmabteilung, the sa, the brawling street thugs who had bludgeoned political opposition into submissionand that meant that friends like ernst röhm, former german chancellor kurt von schleicher, and even former party comrades like gregor strasser were summarily shot without trialthe victims were not political opponents but friends, colleagues and fellow fascists who had helped the nazi party in its rise to powerröhm enjoyed a popularity that almost rivalled hitler's and so he had to gohitler had to eliminate all potential rivals if he was to consolidate his position of power see oxfam website for delivery information read more in the summer of adolf hitler planned and conducted the most ruthless purge of his thirteen-year period as leader of germanyit remains one of the most significant killings of modern times
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