Night of the Long Knives
June 30, 1934
Hitler had his SS murder the leadership of the SA, the street-fighting Brownshirts who had helped him to power and whose ambitions now frightened him and the army. Ernst Rohm was shot in his prison cell. Over a few days at least eighty-five died. The Nazi state had shown it would kill its own without trial.
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Also in 1934 (4 other events on record)
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.