✦ History

Night of the Long Knives

June 30 – July 2, 1934 · Bad Wiessee and Munich

Purge carried out in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934, in which Adolf Hitler ordered the extrajudicial execution of Ernst Rohm and other SA leaders along with political rivals, mainly by the SS and Gestapo. The killings consolidated Hitler's power and eliminated the SA as a political force.

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Key people

Adolf Hitler Organizer Hermann Göring Organizer Heinrich Himmler Organizer Ernst Röhm Victim Reinhard Heydrich Organizer Kurt von Schleicher Victim Kurt Daluege

Participants

Strength and losses

All
Deaths 200

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