Research Catalog

Title

Night of the Long Knives : Hitler's excision of Röhm's SA Brownshirts, 30 June - 2 July 1934 / Phil Carradice.

Author

Carradice, Phil

Publication

• Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen and Sword Military, an imprint of Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

128 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 Sa's ruthless bullyboy tactics played no small part in Hitler's 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 it all was the SA that the army, the industrialists and, more than anyone else, Adolf Hitler feared. Röhm enjoyed a popularity that almost rivalled Hitler's 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"--Back cover.

Series Statement

History of terror

Uniform Title

History of terror.

Subject

• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
• Röhm, Ernst, 1887-1934
• Night of the Long Knives (Germany : 1934)
• 1934
• Germany > History > Night of the Long Knives, 1934
• Germany

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-124) and index.

Contents

Sharpening the knives -- An end of war -- Friends disunited -- Paramilitary might -- Murder and mayhem at Bad Wiesee -- Berlin, Bavaria and beyond -- A very public interest and response -- Aftermath -- Where did they go?

Call Number

JFE 19-4408

ISBN

• 9781526728937
• 1526728931

OCLC

1041529327

Author

Carradice, Phil, author.

Title

Night of the Long Knives : Hitler's excision of Röhm's SA Brownshirts, 30 June - 2 July 1934 / Phil Carradice.

Publisher

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen and Sword Military, an imprint of Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

History of terror

History of terror.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-124) and index.

Chronological Term

1934

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4408