Night of the Long Knives: Hitler's Excision of Rohm's SA Brownshirts, 30 June-2 July 1934 (History of Terror) - Softcover

Carradice, Phil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526728931 ISBN 13: 9781526728937

Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2018

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In the summer of 1934 Adolf Hitler planned and conducted the most ruthless purge of his thirteen-year period as leader of Germany. The victims were not political opponents but friends, colleagues and fellow fascists who had helped the Nazi Party in its rise to power.The Night of the Long Knives broke the back and the will of the Sturmabteilung, the SA, the brawling street thugs who had bludgeoned political opposition into submission. The SAs ruthless bullyboy tactics played no small part in Hitlers establishment of a dictatorship that was to influence affairs in Germany and the world throughout the 1930s and beyond.In some respects the purge was inevitable. Hitler had to eliminate all potential rivals if he was to consolidate his position of power. And that meant that friends like Ernst Röhm, former German Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, and even former party comrades like Gregor Strasser were summarily shot without trial. Above all it was the SA that the army, the industrialists and, more than anyone else, Adolf Hitler feared. Röhm enjoyed a popularity that almost rivaled Hitlers and so he had to go.It was also an opportunity to settle personal scores. The Night of the Long Knives was a cull that eliminated somewhere between 300 and a thousand victims, the exact number has never been clear, many of them innocent of any intention to rival Hitler. It remains one of the most significant killings of modern times.

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Phil Carradice is a well-known writer and historian with over 60 books to his credit. A poet, story teller and broadcaster, his most recent books are 'The Cuban Missile Crisis' (Pen and Sword), 'The Call Up' (Fonthill) and the novel 'Stargazers' for Accent Press. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and TV, presents the BBC Wales History programme 'The Past Master' and is widely regarded as one of the finest creative writing tutors in Wales.

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• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1526728931
• ISBN 13: 9781526728937
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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