the leader of the nazis adolf hitler wanted to a create a country where all aryans were treated equally. they spent heavily on poorer people and began several huge government programs to help germany deal with the unemployment and economic crisis caused by the wall street crash of 1929 and the great depression which followed it. some nazis, such as ernst röhm, wanted the reforms to go further and called for a revolution, eliminating economic classes in germany and for the government to take control of major businesses. many of these nazis were murdered on hitler's orders during the night of the long knives because they were a threat to his leadership of the nazi party.