What can you tell me Night of the Long Knives?

What can you tell me Night of the Long Knives?

(Question was originally going to be written in the style of the Bane meme, but I couldn't think of anything)

>What can you tell me Night of the Long Knives?
Reactionaries pushed Hitler into purging the revolutionary members of his party, before they could be purged themselves.

>Reactionaries pushed Hitler into purging the revolutionary members of his party
Oooooo, do tell.

I just did.

Hitler wanted the Reichswehr to be absolutely loyal to him (and only to himself), in order to get the Reichswehr leaders on board with that he had to disempower the SA, which developed into a de-facto second military of Germany (like later the SS) - the SA was however lead primarily by Röhm, not Hitler, and was considered an internal threat both by Hitler, the SS and the Reichswehr.

Hitler and the SS used the Night of the Long Knives to get rid of possible rivals within the party, but it also hit completely innocent bystanders.

After this incindent the SA declined into a secondary organization within Germany and the SS rose as the primary armed wing of the NSDAP - now more loyal to Hitler and without the ambition to replace the Reichswehr / Wehrmacht as Germany's armed forces.
Because of that, the Reichswehr leadership was now willing to completely subjugate itself to Hitler and the Soldiers now pledged their allegiance not to Germany, but to Hitler.
The last real threat to Hitler was now eliminated and he had practically free reign over Germany.

Stop trying to relive history through modern times.

>Hitler wanted the Reichswehr to be absolutely loyal to him (and only to himself), in order to get the Reichswehr leaders on board with that he had to disempower the SA, which developed into a de-facto second military of Germany (like later the SS) - the SA was however lead primarily by Röhm, not Hitler, and was considered an internal threat both by Hitler, the SS and the Reichswehr.
Starting to sound weirdly familiar...

SA was much bigger than the Reichswehr too, around 4 million members, while Reichswehr was no bigger than 100 000. SS was even smaller. Röhm wasn't really a rival to Hitler, he was a rival to the Junkers and the industrialists. Had Hitler declared a war on them instead, Röhm would've followed him fanatically.

No.

Not that guy but I have no idea what you're referring to.

elaborate

>inb4 Trump

Can't exactly say due to the 25-year rule, but the first person you're thinking of is likely who I'm talking about.

So Trump like said? I don't see the parallel at all.

so you violate the spirit and not the letter. Clever.

Trump fires people he dislikes and is against illegal immigration.
Hitler murdered his opposition and genocided millions of people.

People who make these comparisons are retarded...
Not everyone you dislike is a Nazi...

What do you mean?

I agree, it does sound like Erdogan

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>there is an alternativet timeline where Strasser coups Hitler after they gain power and saves Europe from the decadent cosmopolitarian (((bourgeois)))

There was also the pressure from Hindenburg through Von Pape possible resignation for him to do it, even Mussolini warned him to get rid of the SÁ. The fact of Rohm and some other SA leaders being openly gay didn't help them either

Basically the turning point at which the national socialist party got rid of it's socialist aspect

Not the best timeline it definetly better than this

>Trump

Naw man, Trump thinks of his generals as 'his' already. Trump's far too dumb to pull this sort of thing off.

Worst timeline is if Hitlerism won and Germany won WW2, and then after Hitler died Germany essentially becomes post-Stallin USSR, and Iron-clad bureaucracy that slowly looses to capitalism.

We will never see pictures of Fuhrer *Insert German name* realizing Nazism is wrong when he visits an American supermarket. And then the third Reich falls apart as glorious 1980s American culture takes over Europe.