Sturmabteilung
List sturmabteilung
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Cap eagle of the sturmabteilung (sa) and the nsdap, 3reichoriginal read more
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Hitler had to eliminate all potential rivals if he was to consolidate his position of powerröhm enjoyed a popularity that almost rivalled hitler's and so he had to gothe 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 hitlerprevious owner's name has been obscured with a label on the title page the book is otherwise as newthe 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 submissionthe victims were not political opponents but friends, colleagues and fellow fascists who had helped the nazi party in its rise to powerit remains one of the most significant killings of modern timesand 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 trialabove all it was the sa that the army, the industrialists and, more than anyone else, adolf hitler fearedin some respects the purge was inevitableoxfam books & music olney see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit was also an opportunity to settle personal scores in the summer of adolf hitler planned and conducted the most ruthless purge of his thirteen-year period as leader of germany
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