Execution of Ernst Röhm
1934 · Event
Offered a pistol to kill himself in Stadelheim prison and refusing, the SA chief of staff is shot by Theodor Eicke and Michael Lippert.
On these timelines: Hitler's Rise to Power, Germany, Master
More from Hitler's Rise to Power
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes Führer (1934)
- Night of the Long Knives (1934)
- Beer Hall Putsch (1923)
- The Nazis become Germany's largest party (1932)
- Reichstag Fire Decree (1933)
- Germany becomes a one-party state (1933)
- The Nazis break through at the polls (1930)
Around 1934
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)