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What was the night of the knives?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 11/12/2022

The Night of Long Knives occurred on June 30, 1934. More than a thousand high ranking SA officials (Hitler's militant Nazi storm troopers), including several of Hitler's oldest affiliates were executed in a bloody purge by those who opposed the group's radicalism. After this purge, another Nazi organization was created to replace the SA officials: the Schutzstaffel, or the SS. The SS became the most dreaded arm of Nazi terror. Thus the Night of Long Knives was an action of opposition against the Nazi regime that simply gave rise to an even stronger paramilitary organization for the Nazis.

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