Establishing a dictatorship, 1933-34 - The Night of the Long Knives Flashcards
Who was in charge of the SA?
Ernst Roehm
SA positives and negatives?
✓ had helped the Nazis to power
✕ seen as thugs which was bad to the Nazi image
✕ loyal to Roehm who was increasingly critical of H’s ‘conciliation’ of the old gov, army, industrialists
Why did Hitler get rid of the SA?
used the SS and the Gestapo to do his bidding + feared Roehm trying to seize power
Who was arrested in the Night of the Long Knives?
Roehm and other senior SA officers
What happened to those arrested?
shot the next day - 1st July 1934
What happened over the next few days after the Night of the Long Knives?
several hundred people murdered by the SS - many SA members but also von Schleicher and his wife
What happened to the SA after 1934?
SA continued working but in a reduced form - many were glad SA was tamed but didn’t know abt the violent murders of SA officers/members
