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1934 in Germany — Page 2

Explore 186 historical events and records for Germany in 1934.

Historical records for Germany in 1934

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June

Execution

Beck, Fritz · Government / NSDAP Government

Executed by the Nazis, Director of the Students Welfare Fund

Execution

Gerlich, Fritz · Government / NSDAP Government

Execution of Fritz Gerlich, executed by the Nazis for editing an anti-Nazi newspaper

Execution

Hitler, Adolf · Fuhrer Chancellor · Government / NSDAP Government

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

Execution

Jung, Edgar · Government / NSDAP Government

Executed by the Nazis, had drafted Papens protest speech 13 days prior

Murder of Gustav Ritter von Kahr

Kahr, Gustav Ritter von · Dachau · Former General State Commissioner · Government / NSDAP Government

SS personnel murder Kahr at Dachau during the Night of the Long Knives, eleven years after he opposed Hitler's putsch.

Night of Long Knives

Heydrich, Reinhard Tristan Eugen · Head of SD · Government / NSDAP Government

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

Night of Long Knives

Heydrich, Reinhard Tristan Eugen · Head of SD · Government / NSDAP Government

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.

Night of Long Knives

Heydrich, Reinhard Tristan Eugen · Head of SD · Government / NSDAP Government

Heydrich has his men uncover false "evidence" that SA leader Ernst Rohm was plotting to overthrow Hitler.

Night of Long Knives

Heydrich, Reinhard Tristan Eugen · Head of SD · Government / NSDAP Government

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.

Night of Long Knives

Heydrich, Reinhard Tristan Eugen · Berlin · Head of SD · Government / NSDAP Government

Plays a leading part in eliminating many leaders of the SA who are a threat to Hitler

Night of Long Knives

Hitler, Adolf · Bad Wiesee · Fuhrer Chancellor · Government / NSDAP Government

Confronts Rohm & has him & other SA leaders arrested

Night of Long Knives

Hitler, Adolf · Berlin · Fuhrer Chancellor · Government / NSDAP Government

Gives the codeword, "Kolibri" & triggers off a massacre in Berlin. Assassinations against the SA & ideas of Ernst Roehm who wants a Socialist revolution

Night of Long Knives

Rohm, Ernst · Berlin · Government / NSDAP Government

Assassinations against the SA & ideas of Ernst Roehm who wants a Socialist revolution

Purge

Goering, Herman · Berlin · Minister President · Government / NSDAP Government

Has a list of those who are executed. Goering & Himmler organize the arrest of the SA in Berlin

Purge

Heines, Edmund · Bad Wiesee · Government / NSDAP Government

NSDAP Reichstag deputy, shot in bed with his chauffeur & Lustknabe at Bad Wiesee

Purge

Heines, Oskar · Breslau · SA-Obersturmbannfuhrer · Government / NSDAP Government

Hearing of the attempted "Putsch" turns himself in to Gestapo headquarters, executed

Purge

Heydebreck, Hans Peter von · Stadelheim · NSDAP Reichstag Deputy · Government / NSDAP Government

The "Hero of Annaberg", shot by SS firing squad in Stadelheim Prison

Purge

Himmler, Heinrich · Berlin · Reichfuehrer SS · Government / NSDAP Government

Goering & Himmler organize the arrest of the SA in Berlin

Purge

Hohberg und Buchwald, Anton Freiherr von · SS Reiter · Government / NSDAP Government

Shot in his estate by SS troopers on order of his rival Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

Purge

Jung, Edgar Julius · Lichterfelde · Government / NSDAP Government

Journalist & Speech writer for von Papen, shot in the Lichterfelde Barracks

Purge

Klausener, Erich · Lichterfelde · Government / NSDAP Government

Head of Preusischen Ministerie Polizei, Center Party, Catholic Action, shot

Purge

Papen, Franz von · Berlin · Government / NSDAP Government

A group of Nazis attempt to kill Papen but he persuades them not to

Purge

Schleicher, Kurt von · Berlin · Government / NSDAP Government

Executed by one of Goerings death squads in Berlin

Purge

Stempfle, Bernhard · Berlin · Father · Government / NSDAP Government

Executed by a group of Nazis

Purge

Strasser, Gregor · Berlin · Government / NSDAP Government

Executed by a group of Nazis

Government Report

Heydrich, Reinhard Tristan Eugen · Head of SD · Government / NSDAP Government

Submits a report to Hitler about Rohms mutinous talk & vice

Purge

Heydrich, Reinhard Tristan Eugen · Head of SD · Government / NSDAP Government

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

July

Death of Ernst Rohm

Rohm, Ernst · Munich · Head of SA · Government / NSDAP Government

Death of Ernst Rohm, executed by the NAZIs

Execution

Hitler, Adolf · Fuhrer Chancellor · Government / NSDAP Government

Has Gregor Strasser executed, 1 of the founders of the Nazi Party. Former Chancellor Schleicher is gunned down by 6 assassins

Execution

Hitler, Adolf · Bad Wiesee · Fuhrer Chancellor · Government / NSDAP Government

The execution of Rohm gives Hitler full control of the SA

Execution

Hitler, Adolf · Munich · Fuhrer Chancellor · Government / NSDAP Government

Has von Kahr executed because he had led the troops against Hitler's Beer Hall putsch

Execution

Rohm, Ernst · Munich · Head of SA · Government / NSDAP Government

Rohm refuses to kill himself with a gun which is offerred to him & is executed

Purge

Eike, Theodore · Munich · Inspector of Concn Camps · Government / NSDAP Government

Shoots Ernst Rohm

Purge

Gerlich, Fritz · Dachau · Government / NSDAP Government

Anti-Nazi Catholic journalist, arrested 9 March 1933, killed at Dachau

Purge

Gerth, Daniel · Lichterfelde · Government / NSDAP Government

SA-Obersturmfuhrer, member of staff SA Gruf Ernst. executed at Lichterfelde

Purge

Heiser, Robert · Landeshut · Government / NSDAP Government

Executed during the Blood Purge

Assassination of Erich Klausener

Klausener, Erich · Berlin · Government / NSDAP Government

Assassinated during the Night of the Long Knives

Death of Erich Klausener

Klausener, Erich · Berlin · Government / NSDAP Government

Death of Erich Klausener, assassinated

Night of Long Knives

Frick, Wilhelm · Berlin · Minister of Interior · Government / NSDAP Government

Hitler instructs Wilhelm Frick to draft a law making the killings legal

Night of Long Knives

Hitler, Adolf · Berlin · Fuhrer Chancellor · Government / NSDAP Government

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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