The Origins of the Night of the Long Knives On the night of February 27, 1933, almost one month after Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Reich Chancellor, the Reichstag was destroyed by a fire.

Although Putin’s role in the plane crash is not entirely clear, Wednesday’s events were reminiscent of the “Night of the Long Knives,” Adolf Hitler’s 1934 purge of the SA, a Nazi ...

Take a look: On June 30, 1934, Adolf Hitler launched his “blood purge” of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be known as the “Night of the Long Knives.” Margaret ...

Hitler could not afford to annoy businessmen or the army, so the SS (Hitler's personal bodyguards) murdered around 400 members of the SA, including Röhm, along with a number of Hitler's other ...

It is a powerful and resonant portrait of the greed, manipulation and frightening underestimation of Adolf Hitler's ambition. Rise of the Nazis Thursdays on WLRN NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES - See how ...

Invoking Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in political ... By 1934, Hitler consolidated power by purging his own ranks in the Night of the Long Knives, eliminating internal threats.

Zoological experts have refused a request to change the name of a bug that was named after Adolf Hitler in 1937 ... including the Night of the Long Knives in 1934 and the Nuremberg Race Laws ...

Ten defendants, led by Adolf Hitler and other Nazi party ... the international press predicted Hitler would either be executed, serve a long prison sentence, or face deportation.

The Night of the Long Knives is a phrase most commonly associated ... associates kill numerous rivals across Germany and marked Adolf Hitler’s final consolidation of authoritarian power.

In his new book 1924, Peter Ross Range (formerly of TIME) explores how the year Adolf ... the night of Gustav Kahr’s November 1923 speech that had ended in his temporary kidnapping by Hitler ...

In two brutal days in 1934 Adolf Hitler and his senior staff would capture and execute Ernst Roehm, the rest of the senior leaders of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and perhaps 1000 other enemies and ...