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Executed by the Nazis, Director of the Students Welfare Fund
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Executed by the Nazis, Director of the Students Welfare Fund
Execution of Fritz Gerlich, executed by the Nazis for editing an anti-Nazi newspaper
Orders the arrest & execution of all rivals to him within the Nazi Party. Execution of Fritz Gerlich, executed by the Nazis for editing an anti-Nazi newspaper. Executed by the Nazis, had drafted Papens protest speech 13 days prior. Executed by the Nazis, Director of the Students Welfare Fund
Executed by the Nazis, had drafted Papens protest speech 13 days prior
SS personnel murder Kahr at Dachau during the Night of the Long Knives, eleven years after he opposed Hitler's putsch.
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
Has a list of those who are executed. Goering & Himmler organize the arrest of the SA in Berlin
NSDAP Reichstag deputy, shot in bed with his chauffeur & Lustknabe at Bad Wiesee
Hearing of the attempted "Putsch" turns himself in to Gestapo headquarters, executed
The "Hero of Annaberg", shot by SS firing squad in Stadelheim Prison
Goering & Himmler organize the arrest of the SA in Berlin
Shot in his estate by SS troopers on order of his rival Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
Journalist & Speech writer for von Papen, shot in the Lichterfelde Barracks
Head of Preusischen Ministerie Polizei, Center Party, Catholic Action, shot
A group of Nazis attempt to kill Papen but he persuades them not to
Executed by one of Goerings death squads in Berlin
Executed by a group of Nazis
Executed by a group of Nazis
Submits a report to Hitler about Rohms mutinous talk & vice
Submits a report to Hitler about Rohms mutinous talk & vice. Informs the Army of a threatened putsch by the SA, military units go on alert
Death of Ernst Rohm, executed by the NAZIs
Has Gregor Strasser executed, 1 of the founders of the Nazi Party. Former Chancellor Schleicher is gunned down by 6 assassins
The execution of Rohm gives Hitler full control of the SA
Has von Kahr executed because he had led the troops against Hitler's Beer Hall putsch
Rohm refuses to kill himself with a gun which is offerred to him & is executed
Shoots Ernst Rohm
Anti-Nazi Catholic journalist, arrested 9 March 1933, killed at Dachau
SA-Obersturmfuhrer, member of staff SA Gruf Ernst. executed at Lichterfelde
Executed during the Blood Purge
Assassinated during the Night of the Long Knives
Death of Erich Klausener, assassinated
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
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