Posted on 06/30/2018 10:34:49 AM PDT by harpygoddess
The Night of the Long Knives was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders.
When Hitler rose to power in early 1933, he owed much of his success to the muscle of his Nazi Storm Troopers, the SA, a violent, ruthless army headed by Ernst Röhm, Hitlers long-time friend. Röhm and his Storm Troopers brought Germany into submission by gaining control of the streets gangster-style and violently eliminating Hitlers political enemies.
However, a threatening, revolutionary force was no longer useful now that Hitler was firmly in power. Hitler wanted to go legit and win over the regular army generals, the leaders of industry, and the German people. Most everyone in Germany disliked the SA, who were seen as the arrogant, bullying, murderous thugs that they were, and Hitler knew he needed to curtail their power to increase and solidify his own.
Hitler and the head of the German army, Werner von Blomberg, signed a secret agreement in which Hitler promised Blombergs army absolute control of the military (with precedence over the SA); and von Blomberg pledged the armys backing when Germanys 86-year-old president Paul von Hindenburg died and Hitler claimed the presidency. But von Hindenburg informed Hitler that the SA must be brought to heel ASAP, or he would declare martial law in Germany and let the army run the show.
On the night of June 30, units of the SS arrested the leaders of the SA and other political opponents. Seventy-seven men were executed on charges of treason, though historians tend to think the figure is higher. Hitler also took the opportunity to assassinate anyone that he didnt like, or had crossed him, or looked at him the wrong way.
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Some day a title could be/have been “[dates]: the Decades of the Long Knives, Hillaryr’s purge of those standing in her way”.
Beria allegedly poisoned Stalin, telling the members of the Politburo, “I just saved you all.”
That's how Hitler wanted it, he wanted his successor to be ruthless and the best way was for Hitler to basically stand back and let the chips fall where they may. Some suggest he probably would have preferred Heydrich, which is one of the reason many others despised him, and didn't shed a tear when he was assassinated.
Note that Hitler used ganglike thugs to GET into power, even though he eliminated them once he got there. Much like the Kennedys using the mafia, then needing to dispose of them (at which they were not quite as successful as Hitler) afterward to keep power.
Think Antifa, BLM, hordes of non-Americans who could be brought against us lowly taxpayers due to their holy illegal status, who did come from violent lands... its not like they arent rallying right now today everywhere in this land or anything, so there is no way they could be brought to terrorize innocent towns....
The premise of the alternate history movie “Fatherland”, was that the Nazis were eliminating everybody with direct knowledge of The Holocaust.
I swear I didnt read your post before I wrote mine but we came to the exact same conclusion.
Both Hillary Clinton and obama are gay and have killed many people.
And both could have come out of the closet at any time in the past 5 years to thunderous applause, but chose not to. My guess: it would show them up as the natural liars they have always been.
No doubt Hillary would have performed her night of the long knives by now. Heck, every night with her in charge would have been a long knife night. And most of the useful idiots don’t realize, she would have been killing them. Dead Bernie-Bots would have littered the streets. Us Conservatives, we would have been drafted by now to fight her wars.
Im glad I probably wont live long enough to be murdered by the dnc- sorozNazi regime to come Its definitely coming. And Im no conspiracy nut
I know it is revisionist silliness, but it would have been magnificent to destroy Communism in the same time period.
Yes, good points.
Strutting poofters..
I dont think theres any doubt that Röhm was homosexual.
That’s not a majority opinion as to the reason for Stalin’s death.
Beria was killed soon thereafter by other members of the Politburo.
Röhm probably wasn’t thinking about a war down the road, like Hitler was. Hitler’s priorities were making sure he had the industrialists in his pocket to build his war machine, and that the Wehrmacht generals would support him. Offing Röhm and Company accomplished that.
Beria used to mock the people he executed in front of Stalin and imitate their crying.
Beria was crying like a little girl when his turn came.
The Last Day of June, 1934--Al Stewart
Homosexuals founded the Nazi party and were the leaders of the brownshirts.
Amazing the history that is too un-PC to be taught.
Hitler and the head of the German army, Werner von Blomberg, signed a secret agreement in which Hitler promised Blombergs army absolute control of the military (with precedence over the SA); and von Blomberg pledged the armys backing when Germanys 86-year-old president Paul von Hindenburg died and Hitler claimed the presidency. But von Hindenburg informed Hitler that the SA must be brought to heel ASAP, or he would declare martial law in Germany and let the army run the show. On the night of June 30, units of the SS arrested the leaders of the SA and other political opponents. Seventy-seven men were executed on charges of treason, though historians tend to think the figure is higher. Hitler also took the opportunity to assassinate anyone that he didnt like, or had crossed him, or looked at him the wrong way.
Rohm was also openly gay, and much more outspoken and doctrinaire about socialism. After this purge, surviving SA members had to swear allegiance to Hitler, literally in his presence, or else. They were then subsumed into the SS, Waffen SS, or wherever else was considered an appropriate fit. Hitler was great at politics (of a certain practical kind, at least) but didn't understand military strategy or tactics, good thing for us.
Thanks harpygoddess.
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