Night of the long knives /

One of Adolf Hitler's most brutal and dramatic exterminations came before the Holocaust. The SA was Hitler's army of thugs, but the head of the SA, Ernst Roehm, was threatening Hitler's rule. On June 29th 1934, Hitler ordered the SA leadership to appear for a meeting at the Hotel Hans...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tolstoy, Nikolai
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : [Ballantine Books], 1972.
Series:	Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century. Politics in action ; no. 7.
Subjects:	Hitler, Adolf, > 1889-1945. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. > Sturmabteilung. Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945. Germany > Politics and government > 1918-1933. Allemagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1933-1945. Allemagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1918-1933. Hitler, Adolf, > 1889-1945 Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. > Sturmabteilung Politics and government Germany Röhm-Putsch Politischer Mord Geschichte SA. 1918-1945

Table of Contents:

1. Hitler and Röhm.
2. The Munich putsch 1923.
3. Röhm, Brownshirt chief.
4. 'Germany awake.'
5. A formidable combination.
6. Out on a limb.
7. The closing net.
8. Bloodlust.
9. Supreme Justician.