Wednesday, May 11, 2011

12th May: Hitler's Bodyguard at 9pm on Yesterday

This episode looks into the events on 30th June 1934, better known as the Night of the Long Knives.
Adolf Hitler moved against the SA and its leader, Ernst Röhm, because he saw the independence of the SA and the penchant of its members for street violence as a direct threat to his newly gained political power. He also wanted to conciliate leaders of theReichswehr, the official German military who feared and despised the SA—in particular Röhm's ambition to absorb the Reichswehr into the SA under his own leadership.

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