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A purge took place in Nazi Germany.
Night of the Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives (German: ), or the Röhm Purge, also called Operation Hummingbird (German: "Unternehmen Kolibri"), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring
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Night of the Long Knives [SEP] Introduction
The Night of the Long Knives (German: ), or the Röhm Purge, also called Operation Hummingbird (German: "Unternehmen Kolibri"), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ordered a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate his power and alleviate the concerns of the German military about the role of Ernst Röhm and the "Sturmabteilung" (SA), the Nazis' paramilitary organization. Nazi propaganda presented the murders as a preventive measure against an alleged imminent coup by the SA under Röhm – the so-called "Röhm Putsch".