Night of the Long Knives
Starting in the evening of 30 June 1934, the Night of the Long Knives, the Nazi purge, personally led by Adolf Hitler of internal political opponents, primarily Ernst Roehm and the SA. Others killed by Schutzstaffel (SS) or Gestapo personnel included people variously considered political risks or embarrassments to Hitler. Some of the other Nazi leadership, such as Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler put their opponents on the list.
Targets
Sturmabteilung
As tensions increased between the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler and Ernst Roehm's Sturmabteilung, the Schutzstaffel (SS) and its SD intelligence service were told, in early June, to increase surveillance of the SA.[1]
Other leftist Nazis
Gregor Strasser, still in Germany as opposed to his brother Otto, was perhaps the greatest concern on the left besides the SA.
Other political opponents
Miscellaneous
The Purge
Aftermath
References
- ↑ Joachim C. Fest (1973), Hitler, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, pp. 478-479