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Hitler did.
The Night of the Long Knives or "Operation Hummingbird" was an operation in which Adolf Hitler ordered the SS (Schutzstaffel, Protective Squadron) and Gestapo (Secret Police) to assassinate the leaders of the SA (Sturmabteilung, Stormtroopers). Hitler required the support of the Army and Big Business Elites but they did not trust the SA, in order for Hitler to gain their support, he had all the SA leaders assassinated between June 30 and July 2 1934.
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The military leaders tried as best they could to fulfill their leader's orders and fight until they were ordered to surrender. (The political leaders all fled or committed suicide).
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Ernest Roehm, the leader of the SA had increasingly public disagreements with Hitler in 1934. It was a worry to Hitler as the SA were anextremely powerful force which were even morepowerfulthan the army.Roehm had radical ideas about replacing the Army with the SA, so Hitler wanted to get rid of this opposition.Hitler agreed to an oath with the Army that if he got rid of the SA leaders, the SA would be under their control, but they would have to sign a oath of loyalty to Hitler. Kershaw describes that moment as 'the symbolic moment when the Army chained itself to the Fuhrer.'
Hitler did.
Ernest Rohm was in charge of the SA who were a group loyal to Germany and the Nazis not just to Hitler specifically. Rohm was killed in the Night of the Long Knives along with other SA leaders. They were killed as Hitler believed the SA could revolt and with Rohm as their leader he could be a potential rival to him.
The Night of the Long Knives or "Operation Hummingbird" was an operation in which Adolf Hitler ordered the SS (Schutzstaffel, Protective Squadron) and Gestapo (Secret Police) to assassinate the leaders of the SA (Sturmabteilung, Stormtroopers). Hitler required the support of the Army and Big Business Elites but they did not trust the SA, in order for Hitler to gain their support, he had all the SA leaders assassinated between June 30 and July 2 1934.
The night (actually a weekend) in June 1934 when Hitler used the SS to kill leaders of the SA and others who had recently angered him
The Nazis built their military forces from the original forces that were in place when they came into power with Hitler as their leader. The Luftwaffe and the Wehrmacht and the Navy were led by the military leaders of the past. Hitler also appointed new leaders. The SA was disbanded and the SS/Gestapo/Hitler's bodyguards were initiated by Hitler and his leaders. They had a nation full of men who were unemployed to encourage to join the forces. The youth of the nation were brainwashed and many were drawn into the fight at the end of the war.
He murdered them by the millions.
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He hated them, demonized them, and murdered them by the millions.
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