The Nazis in Power: The Night of the Long Knives (TRIH ep 404, part 1)
1934 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) examines the Night of the Long Knives (late June–early July 1934) and situates it within the Nazis' consolidation of power. After a brief recap of Nazism's roots, the hosts describe intra-party tensions between Ernst Röhm's SA (Stormtroopers) and Germany's conservative elites and army.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1934
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)