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    The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer), also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird (German: Unternehmen Kolibri), was...
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    The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer) was a purge in which Adolf Hitler and the regime of Nazi Germany targeted members of the...
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  • The Night of the Long Knives was a 1934 purge of political opponents in Nazi Germany. Night of the Long Knives may also refer to: Treason of the Long...
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    in 2019. The sackings were mockingly named after the 1934 Night of the Long Knives, when Adolf Hitler had many Sturmabteilung supporters of Ernst Röhm...
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  • use of the term Nuit des longs couteaux, or "Night of the Long Knives". In English Canada, Lévesque was seen as having tried to do the same to the English-speaking...
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  • The Treason of the Long Knives (Welsh: Brad y Cyllyll Hirion) is an account of a massacre of British Celtic chieftains by Anglo-Saxon soldiers at a peace...
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    that was later dubbed "Night of the Long Knives" by locals in Belfast, the IRA attacked the two IPLO factions in Belfast, killing the breakaway Belfast Brigade...
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  • he ordered the creation of another bodyguard unit in 1925 that ultimately became the Schutzstaffel (SS). During the Night of the Long Knives (die Nacht...
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    Karl Ernst (category Nazis killed during the Night of the Long Knives)
    participants in the extrajudicial execution of Albrecht Höhler. Ernst was himself extrajudicially executed in the Night of the Long Knives. Karl Ernst was...
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    Willi Schmid (category Victims of the Night of the Long Knives)
    and an accidental victim of the Night of the Long Knives in a case of mistaken identity. Born in 1893, Willi Schmid served in the Imperial Army in World...
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    Heinrich Himmler (category Perpetrators of the Night of the Long Knives)
    and 2 July 1934 in these actions, known as the Night of the Long Knives. With the SA thus neutralised, the SS became an independent organisation answerable...
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    aftermath of the intramural assassinations of the Night of the Long Knives (30 June–2 July 1934), the supreme leader Hitler justified the violent political...
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  • during the Night of the Long Knives on 1 July 1934. As he then sought to remove Röhm from German history, Hitler ordered all known copies of the film be...
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    Franz von Papen (category Recipients of the Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross)
    government after the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, during which the Nazis killed some of his allies and confidants. Subsequently, Papen served the German Foreign...
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    trial, along with the leadership of the SA. The purge became known as the Night of the Long Knives. Up to 200 people were killed in the action. Lutze was...
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  • Bent (1997 film) (category Films set in the 1930s)
    persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany after the murder of SA leader Ernst Röhm on the Night of the Long Knives. Max (Clive Owen) is a promiscuous gay man...
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  • "Episode 3: Rise of the Nazis, Origins, Night of the Long Knives". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2 December 2020. "Episode 1: Rise of the Nazis, Dictators at...
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    Johannes Schmidt (SS-member) (category Perpetrators of the Night of the Long Knives)
    Schleicher, on behalf of Reinhard Heydrich, during the political purge of the Nazi Government known as Night of the Long Knives. On 28 April 1945, Schmidt...
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    economically radical factions in the mid-1934 Night of the Long Knives, including the leadership of the SA. After the death of President Hindenburg on 2 August...
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    Hermann Göring (category Perpetrators of the Night of the Long Knives)
    to 2 July, which is now known as the Night of the Long Knives. Hitler admitted in the Reichstag on 13 July that the killings had been entirely illegal but...
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    Sturmabteilung (SA). The SS used the rank of Sturmhauptführer from 1930 to 1934 at which time, following the Night of the Long Knives, the name of the rank was changed...
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    Adolf Hitler (redirect from The Führer)
    political leaders. In response, Hitler purged the entire SA leadership in the Night of the Long Knives, which took place from 30 June to 2 July 1934....
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    August Schneidhuber (category Nazis killed during the Night of the Long Knives)
    other SA leaders in the Night of the Long Knives. Schneidhuber was born in Traunstein, the son of a judicial officer. He entered the Royal Bavarian Army...
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    Willi Lehmann (category Perpetrators of the Night of the Long Knives)
    the Röhm Putsch to liquidate opponents of the regime. Lehmann later told the NKVD that the murders he committed during the Night of the Long Knives sickened...
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  • Bent (play) (category Plays about the Holocaust)
    around the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, and takes place during and after the Night of the Long Knives. The title of the play refers to the slang...
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    expressing a long-held belief among some Afrikaners, particularly a fringe organization known as Suidlanders, of "Uhuru," or "the night of long knives," when...
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  • Michael Lippert (category Perpetrators of the Night of the Long Knives)
    purge of the SA leadership and other enemies of the state began on 30 June in an action which became known as the Night of the Long Knives. Eicke, along...
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    Theodor Eicke (category Perpetrators of the Night of the Long Knives)
    was one of the executioners of SA Chief Ernst Röhm during the Night of the Long Knives purge of 1934. He continued to expand and develop the concentration...
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    Germany as a great power with Hitler as its leader. The film was produced after the Night of the Long Knives, and many formerly prominent SA members are absent...
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  • Wilhelm Schmid (SA-Gruppenführer) (category Nazis killed during the Night of the Long Knives)
    to 1934, Schmid also was a deputy of the Reichstag. He was arrested and executed during the Night of the Long Knives. Schmid was born in Munich to a Catholic...
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