the revolt illustrated hitler's consistent approach to solving intraparty frictions: resort to the "führerprinzip", rather than address the underlying problems which motivated the tension. here, those underlying structural problems simply remained dormant for several years, and the inherent tensions between the party and the sa only grew under the able sa leadership of röhm, whose ambitions certainly were higher than those of stennes. the real resolution of the nazi dilemma had to wait until the german army forced the issue in the summer of 1934, when, with the sa growing restless and hindenburg on his deathbed, hitler responded with the murderous night of the long knives. having left germany in 1933, stennes worked as a military adviser to chiang kai-shek until 1949, when he returned to germany.