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 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 hitler in the summer of adolf hitler planned and conducted the most ruthless purge of his thirteen-year period as leader of germanythe 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 submissionit remains one of the most significant killings of modern timesabove all it was the sa that the army, the industrialists and, more than anyone else, adolf hitler fearedthe victims were not political opponents but friends, colleagues and fellow fascists who had helped the nazi party in its rise to poweroxfam books & music olneyin some respects the purge was inevitablehitler 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 goand 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 the book is otherwise as new 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 beyondprevious owner's name has been obscured with a label on the title page
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