Sturmabteilung
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Cap eagle of the sturmabteilung (sa) and the nsdap, 3reichoriginal read more
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Oxfam books & music olneythe victims were not political opponents but friends, colleagues and fellow fascists who had helped the nazi party in its rise to powerthe 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 submissionröhm 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 in the summer of adolf hitler planned and conducted the most ruthless purge of his thirteen-year period as leader of germanyin some respects the purge was inevitable the book is otherwise as newabove all it was the sa that the army, the industrialists and, more than anyone else, adolf hitler feared see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 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 hitlerit was also an opportunity to settle personal scoresit remains one of the most significant killings of modern timesprevious owner's name has been obscured with a label on the title pageand 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 trial
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