Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich30 June 1934
Helps organize the Night of the Long Knives. Goering forms a partnership with Himmler and Heydrich, placing the Gestapo under their control, in order to crush the SA
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Helps organize the Night of the Long Knives. Goering forms a partnership with Himmler and Heydrich, placing the Gestapo under their control, in order to crush the SA
Heydrich and Himmler put pressure on Hitler to purge the leading members of the SA, and they assure him that the SS will carry out the murders, Heydrich had drawn up lists of all of the powerful SA men to be killed along with Rohm.
Heydrich has his men uncover false "evidence" that SA leader Ernst Rohm was plotting to overthrow Hitler.
Rohm is shot without trial along with all of the important members of the SA in this bloodbath, which the Nazis coined the Night of the Long Knives.
Plays a leading part in eliminating many leaders of the SA who are a threat to Hitler
Confronts Rohm & has him & other SA leaders arrested
Gives the codeword, "Kolibri" & triggers off a massacre in Berlin. Assassinations against the SA & ideas of Ernst Roehm who wants a Socialist revolution
Assassinations against the SA & ideas of Ernst Roehm who wants a Socialist revolution
Hitler instructs Wilhelm Frick to draft a law making the killings legal
Hitler instructs Wilhelm Frick to draft a law making the killings legal. Defends his actions in the Reichstag which "belonged to a higher justice". Defends himself in the Reichstag as "the Supreme Justiciar of the German People". Announces Rohm, von Schleicher & Gregor Strasser plotted against the Reich
Assassinated during the Night of the Long Knives
Blomberg encourages Hitler to crack down on SA leader Ernst R”hm and his followers, whom he believes pose a serious threat to the army, he condones and participates in the Night of the Long Knives
The Reichstag retrospectively makes the plot both "legal & statesmanlike"
The Reichstag retrospectively makes the plot both "legal & statesmanlike"
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