 Complete the following phrase:  Purged during the Night of the Long Knives, he was able to recover his status, and served as Nazi Germanys Consul in San Francisco between 1936 and 1939. As Ambassador to the Slovak Republic in 1940, he played a part in enforcing antisemitic legislation in that country. In early 1941, Killinger was appointed to a similar position in Romania, where he first became noted for supporting Ion Antonescu during the 