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Night of the Long Knives: Quick Facts

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Facts

Location Germany • Third Reich
Participants Nazi Party • SA • SS

Photos

Newspaper coverage of the Night of the Long Knives
Ernst Röhm
Nazi soldiers on horseback parade down a city street in Breslau, Germany, as crowds salute and buildings are draped with swastika flags during World War II.
Engelbert Dollfuss
German soldiers in uniform and helmets stand in formation with right arms raised, swearing an oath in an open field at the Rathenower Barracks in Berlin, 1934.
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Key People

Gregor Strasser
Gregor Strasser
German political activist
Kurt von Schleicher
Kurt von Schleicher
German army officer
Daluege, Himmler, and Röhm
Ernst Röhm
German army officer
Portrait of Adolf Hitler in a collared shirt and tie, facing forward with a serious expression, circa 1933.
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi leader