The Night of the Long Knives. The Struggle for Power of the Party Elites of the Third Reich. 1932—1934

The tensions within the Hitler movement between supporters of nationalism and socialism led to the bloody massacre unleashed by Hitler on June 30, 1934, known as the "Night of the Long Knives".

The entire leadership of the SA, led by Ernst Röhm, was eliminated, Gregor Strasser, the former Reich Chancellor, Kurt von Schleicher, and Gustav von Kahr, who had suppressed the Munich "Beer Putsch" a decade earlier, were killed.

To achieve new goals, Hitler needed different people.