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purge
Nazi Germany
Nazi
Strasserist
Gregor Strasser
Kurt von Schleicher
Gustav Ritter von Kahr
Beer Hall Putsch
Sturmabteilung
paramilitary
Brownshirts
Adolf Hitler
Ernst Röhm
Reichswehr
critics
Franz von Papen
At least 85 people
Schutzstaffel
Gestapo
secret police
extra-judicial killings
Hummingbird
SA
Jews
Communists
Socialists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hitler_1928_crop.jpg
Nuremberg
Julius Streicher
President
Paul von Hindenburg
Chancellor
next few months
Gleichschaltung
Hitler
Reichstag
legislative body
rival political parties
one-party state
senile
conscription
foreign policy
Freikorps
November Revolution
Weimar Republic
Social Democrats
Communists
democracy
Foreign Office
middle classes
National Socialist
brown revolution
NSDAP
the Great Depression
working class
socialist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-14393,_Ernst_R%C3%B6hm_crop.jpg
Bavaria
Munich Beer Hall Putsch
World War I
socialist
lobbied
Minister of Defence
Werner von Blomberg
Prussian nobility
plebeian
Rummelsburg
Treaty of Versailles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vonpapen1_crop.jpg
Marburg speech
Prussian
Hermann Göring
Propaganda Minister
Joseph Goebbels
SS Chief
Heinrich Himmler
Rudolf Hess
Ferdinand von Bredow
Werner von Alvensleben
Heinrich Brüning
John Wheeler-Bennett
Reinhard Heydrich
homosexuality
Benito Mussolini
Otto Meißner
Konstantin von Neurath
Ulrich von Hassell
Giacomo Matteotti
a speech
Marburg University
Catholic
aristocrat
Hindenburg
martial law
marks
Willi Lehmann
NKVD
Werner von Fritsch
General
Walther von Reichenau
Völkischer Beobachter
Essen
Bad Wiessee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hitler,_G%C3%B6ring,_Goebbels_and_Hess.jpg
Victims of the Night of the Long Knives
Munich
Bavarian
epaulets
Erich Kempka
Breslau
Edmund Heines
moral turpitude
Kolibri
Herbert von Bose
Edgar Jung
Erich Klausener
Willi Schmid
Ludwig Schmitt
Otto Strasser
Stadelheim Prison
Theodor Eicke
Dachau concentration camp
Michel Lippert
Browning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hitler_N%C3%BCrnberg_1935.jpg
Blutfahne
Jakob Grimminger
Franz Gürtner
Wilhelm Frick
retroactively legalised
Carl Schmitt
Reichstag
Richard J. Evans
Ian Kershaw
William L. Shirer
The White Book of the Purge
Georg von Detten
Karl Ernst
Fritz Gerlich
Catholic Action
Hans Hayn
group leader
Sachsen
senior group leader
Peter von Heydebreck
Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald
Edgar Julius Jung
Kuno Kamphausen
Zentrum
Eugen von Kessel
Prussian
Hans-Karl Koch
general
Westmark
Fritz von Krausser
Adalbert Probst
Hans Ramshorn
Oberschlesien
Gleiwitz
Paul Röhrbein
Alfons Sack
Chancellor of Germany
August Schneidhuber
Johann Konrad Schragmüller
Magdeburg
Emil Sembach
general
Bernhard Stempfle
Landsberg, Bavaria
Mein Kampf
Gerd Voß
Ernestine Zoref
Paul Edmund von Hahn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_the_Night_of_the_Long_Knives#cite_note-3
Roehm putsch
Gestapo
Adolf Hitler
Henry Bennecken
Heinz Höhne
Julius Adler (lawyer)
Otto Ballerstedt
Fritz Beck
File: FBredow.jpg
Charles Belding
colonel
Veit Ulrich von Beulwitz
Alois Bittman
Franz Bläsner
Herbert von Bose
Ferdinand von Bredow
Kurt von Schleicher
http://lexikon.freenet.de/Datei:WP_Georg_von_Detten.jpg
Georg von Detten
Supreme SA leadership (OSAF)
http://lexikon.freenet.de/Datei:ErnstKarl.jpg
File: Gerlich.JPG
File: Gerth.jpg
File: AlexanderGlaser.jpg
Louis Werner Engels
Karl Ernst
File: Häbich.jpg
Hans Joachim von Falkenhausen
Gustav Fink
Joachim Hoffmann
Walter Foerster
http://lexikon.freenet.de/Datei:WP_Hans_Hayn.jpg
Eric Gans
Fritz Gerlich
File: Bundesarchiv Image 119-1231, Edmund Heines.jpg
Daniel Gerth
Alexander Glaser
Max Amann
Walter Häbich
Hans Hayn
Edmund Heines
Oskar Heines
File: Hereth.JPG
Adam Hereth
http://lexikon.freenet.de/Datei:HeydebreckHansAdamvon.jpg
Karl-Günther Heimsoth
Peter von Heydebreck
Joachim Hoffmann
[2]
Anton von Hohberg and Buchenwald
File: EdgarJung0002.jpg
Edgar Julius Jung
File: Kahr.jpg
Gustav Ritter von Kahr
File: Kamphausen.JPG
Kuno Kamphausen
Eugen von Kessel
File: Bundesarchiv Image 102-14315, Erich Klausener.jpg
Erich Klausener
Willi Klemm
http://lexikon.freenet.de/Datei:WP_Hans-Karl_Koch.jpg
Hans Karl Koch
File: WP Fritz von Kraußer.jpg
Fritz von Kraußer
Karl Lämmermann
HJ
Gotthard Langer
File: Laemmermann.JPG
Erich Lindemann
Ernst Ewald Martin
File: Mattheiss.jpg
Matt Hermann hot
Walter von Mohrenschildt
Kurt Mosert
File: AdProbst.jpg
Fritz Pleines
Adalbert Probst
DJK
http://lexikon.freenet.de/Datei:WP_Hans_Ramshorn.jpg
Ramshorn, Hans
Ernst Roehm
Paul cannon bone
File: Bundesarchiv image 136-B0228, Kurt von Schleicher.jpg
William Sander (SA leader)
Schätzl Martin
Elisabeth von Schleicher
Wilhelm Schmid
http://lexikon.freenet.de/Datei:WP_Wilhelm_Schmid.jpg
Wilhelm Eduard Schmid
Hans Walter Schmidt
File: WilliSchmid.JPG
http://lexikon.freenet.de/Datei:WP_August_Schneidhuber.jpg
August Schneidhuber
Johann Konrad Müller Schrag
Max Schuldt
Walter Schulz
Hans Schweighart
File: Emil Sembach.jpg
Emil Sembach
File: Spreti.jpg
Hans-Joachim Graf von Spreti Weilbach
File: Stempfle.JPG
Bernhard Stempfle
Mein Kampf
File: Bundesarchiv Image 119-1721, Gregory Strasser.jpg
Gregor Strasser
Stucken Otto
File: JuliusUhl.jpg
Othmar Toifl
Julius Uhl
Villain Erwin
Max Vogel
Gerd Voss
Eberhard Carl Freiherr von Wechmar
Charles Tenth
Ernestine Zoref
Alexander Branch
German
Nazi
militia
Night of the Long Knives
Hitler's
Ingolstadt
Lorraine
Verdun
Romania
Iron Cross First Class
Hauptmann
Spanish influenza
German Workers' Party
National Socialist German Workers Party
Erich Ludendorff
treason
Frontbann
Stennes Revolt
Oberster SA-Führer
SA's chief of staff
SS
Jews
labour
picket
left-wing
Münchener Post
Social Democratic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1982-159-21A,_N%C3%BCrnberg,_Reichsparteitag,_Hitler_und_R%C3%B6hm.jpg
familiar form of "you"
storm troopers
Gottfried Feder
Walther Darré
capitalism
nationalisation
aristocracy
reactionaries
conservatives
Communists
Socialists
working-class
Minister of Defence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-14886,_Kurt_Daluege,_Heinrich_Himmler,_Ernst_R%C3%B6hm.jpg
Kurt Daluege
Frederick the Great
traditionalists
President
Anthony Eden
swastika
Himmler
Heydrich
Göring
Victor Lutze
Sepp Dietrich
suicide
Kommandant
Obersturmbannführer
Michael Lippert
John Toland
World War II
lieutenant
Nazi Party
Upper Palatinate
Liegnitz
Silesia
police
Night of Long Knives
Reichstag
[??œb?ls]
Reich Minister of Propaganda
oratory
anti-Semitism
Kristallnacht
German Jews
Final Solution
the Holocaust
Ph.D.
Heidelberg University
doctoral thesis
occupation of the Ruhr
Gauleiter
Berlin
socialist
communist
burning of books
pogrom
synagogues
Jud Süß
propaganda
Axis
total war
Magda
six young children
Nazi party
Würzburg
Germany
humanistic
Ansbach
Zürich
Switzerland
Bulgaria
economics
bankers
Anton Drexler
Dietrich Eckart
Karl Harrer
Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
finance
Hitler's opposition
Thule Society
25 points
anti-capitalist
Hitler
Jewish
NSDAP
Walther Funk
Albert Voegler
Gustav Krupp
Friedrich Flick
Fritz Thyssen
Hjalmar Schacht
Emil Kirdorf
Reichskanzler
anti-semitic
Reich
Die Neue Stadt (The New City)
Nazi attempt
Garden City
Uz? Nishiyama
New Town
blood and soil
Murnau
Obergruppenführer
Minister of Food
Agriculture
Belgrano
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Huguenot
Wiesbaden
Swedish
Bad Pyrmont
Spanish
German
English
French
Heidelberg
King's College School
Wimbledon
Gummersbach
German colonies
Witzenhausen
Göttingen
Pomerania
University of Halle
East Prussia
Finland
Artaman League
Völkisch
back-to-the-land movement
Nordic race
Blut und Boden
Green
Paul Schultze-Naumburg
Reichsleiter
Slavs
SS Race and Settlement Main Office
racist
anti-Semitic
Gruppenführer
Religious aspects of Nazism
Alfred Rosenberg
Nazi occultism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H1215-503-009,_Walther_Darr%C3%A9_bei_einer_Kundgebung.jpg
Goslar
Blood and soil
came to power
DNVP
Alfred Hugenberg
Reichsnährstand
Drang nach Osten
Lebensraum
Reichsführer-SS
Nazi policies of eugenics
Generalplan Ost
Günther Pancke
Herbert Backe
Flak-Kaserne Ludwigsburg
Nuremberg Trials
Ministries Trial
Landsberg Prison
Bad Harzburg
alcoholism
Landsberg am Lech
German
Augsburg
Allied
Occupation of Germany
Nazi War Criminals
General Joseph T. McNarney
Federal Republic of Germany
Art Nouveau
forced labor
Anton Graf von Arco-Valley
Kurt Eisner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Georg_Schallermair.jpg
SS
Hauptscharführer
Mühldorf subcamp
Dachau Trials
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Morgenschweis_prays_for_Franz_Strasser.jpg
Allies
US Army
prison
United States Military Police (MPs)
crimes against humanity
Nuremberg trials
American forces in Japan
Japanese military
Shanghai
Dachau
Sepp Dietrich
Hellmuth Felmy
Otto Hofmann
Karl-Adolf Hollidt
Hermann Hoth
Waldemar Klingelhöfer
Alfried Krupp
Hans Heinrich Lammer
Wilhelm List
Martin Sandberger
Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland
Otto Steinbrinck
Walter Warlimont
Bernhard Weiss
Erhard Milch
Federal Republic of Germany
death penalty
Oswald Pohl
Hans-Theodor Schmidt
adjutant
Buchenwald
Georg Schallermair
Mühldorf
Einsatzgruppen Trials
Stabschef
Bevergern
Westphalia
German Army
Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
Albert Leo Schlageter
Hanover
Stabschef SA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-04062A,_N%C3%BCrnberg,_Reichsparteitag,_SA-_und_SS-Appell.jpg
Nazi salute
Leni Riefenstahl
Triumph of the Will
Anschluss
Potsdam
Reich Chancellery
German Order
SS-Division (mot) Totenkopf
Waffen-SS
concentration camps
station master
Hudingen (Hampont)
Château-Salins
Elsass-Lothringen
paymaster
Iron Cross
Ilmenau
IG Farben
Ludwigshafen
intelligence service
palatinate
Standartenführer
Colonel
minister of justice
Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H26996,_KZ_Dachau,_Verbrennungsofen.jpg
Dachau
Hitler's rise to power
Joseph Bürckel
mental asylum
Oberführer
Sturmbannführer
Hilmar Wäckerle
Brigadeführer
Major-general
new guarding provisions
disciplinary and punishment regulations
Third Reich
anti-semitism
bolshevism
Concentration Camps Inspector
SS-Hauptamt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_ArbeitMachtFrei.JPG
Arbeit Macht Frei
Sachsenhausen
SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Buchenwald
Ravensbrück
Lichtenburg
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
SD
Concentration Camps Inspectorate
SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101III-Wiegand-116-03,_Theodor_Eicke.jpg
SS-Infanterie-Regiment (mot)Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
SS-Verfügungstruppe
Waffen SS
SS-Division Totenkopf
Totenkopf
Richard Glücks
war crimes
POWs
Le Paradis
Kharkov
Demyansk Pocket
Warsaw
Budapest
SS-Obergruppenführer
general
Allgemeine SS
Third Battle of Kharkov
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
Soviet troops
Artelnoje
Lozovaya
cuff-title
Bertha Schwebel
[?ha?n??ç ?lu??t?p?lt ?h?ml?]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:De-Heinrich_Himmler.ogg
listen
Reichsführer
Secret State Police
Reichsführer
Holocaust
concentration camps
extermination camps
Einsatzgruppen
six million
Roma
prisoners of war
Poles
communists
unworthy to live
homosexuals
disabilities
Jehovah's Witnesses
Confessing Church
Allies
prosecution
British
suicide
German
Sachsenhausen
SS-Freiwilligen Legion Flandern
10. SS-Panzer-Division Frundsberg
leader
31st Death's Head Regiment
ß
politician
National Socialist German Workers Party
Otto
Upper Bavarian
market town
Geisenfeld
Gymnasium
druggist
Lower Bavarian
Frontenhausen
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
First Lieutenant
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
Franz Ritter von Epp
Landshut
Kapp Putsch
coup d'état
völkischer
nationalist
German Empire
Landtag
Bürgerbräukeller
Lower Bavaria
Gau
Upper Silesian
NSDAP/AO
Hans Nieland
Strasser brothers
Rhineland
Westphalia
anti-capitalist
antisemitism
anti-Marxism
National Bolshevist
Bamberg Conference
Geli Raubal
Reichskanzler
national conservative
Black Front
January 4
Lippe
Röhm
Strasbourg
Wilhelm von Ketteler
Fritz Günther von Tschirschky
Hans Graf von Kageneck
Friedrich Goerdeler
von Fritsch
address
University of Marburg
violence
William Dodd
Bose-Tschirschky Plan
von Blomberg
von Reichenau
Von Tschirschky
von Jung
Blood Purge
Inside the Third Reich
Albert Speer
journalist
historian
communism
anti-Semitism
Soviet Republic
liberal
left-liberal
Deutsche Demokratische Partei (German Democratic Party)
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Nazism
Therese Neumann
mystic
Konnersreuth
stigmatism
converted
Calvinism
Catholicism
left
right
Nazi
Nazis seized power
Köslin
national socialist
German revolution
Third Silesian Uprising
Battle of Annaberg
Röhm-Putsch
victims of the Night of the Long Knives
Wismar
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Cavalry
German Imperial Army
Dulzen
Preussisch Eylau
Prussian Minister of Interior
Georg von Rheinbaben
von Blumenthal
Erich von dem Bach–Zelewski
Obersturmführer
[1]
SS-Scharführer
Warsaw Uprising
West German
lawyer
Rhineland-Palatinate
Conservative Revolutionary movement
political activism
Soviet Union
Nazis
Weißenburg in Bayern
BVP
Upper Bavaria
German Revolution
Johannes Hoffmann
Prime minister of Bavaria
Bolshevism
spring of 1919
Prussia
Württemberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R41120,_Erich_Ludendorff,_Gustav_v._Kahr.jpg
Eugen von Knilling
Hans Ritter von Seisser
Otto von Lossow
triumvirate
Mussolini's
March on Rome
Bavarian War Ministry
Sixteen NSDAP members
Catholic
Düsseldorf
Eastern front
boycotts
interior ministry
National Socialists
Nazify
chancellor
Maria Regina Martyrum
Pius XII
Guenter Lewy
David G. Dalin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erich_Klausener-Mutter_Erde_fec.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erich_Klausener_-_Deutsche_Bundespost_Berlin_1984.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gedenktafel_Hinter_der_Katholischen_Kirche_3_(Mitte)_Christen_im_Widerstand2.jpg
St. Hedwig's Cathedral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kurt_von_Schleicher.ogg
Kurt von Schleicher
help
info
Chancellor of Germany
Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
Generalfeldmarshall
August von Mackensen
André François-Poncet
Jan Szembek
Józef Lipski
Rapallo Treaty
music critic
Christian Döbereiner
Münchener Neueste Nachrichten
William Shirer
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
cello
Greinburg
Lower Austria
Oels
Sicherheitsdienst
homosexual
Kurt Wittje
Udo von Woyrsch
Hauptsturmführer
Paul Exner
Von Woyrsch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reichsparteitagnov1935.jpg
Imperial German Army
Second World War
West Germany
interwar period
Imperial Army
Imperial Army Air Service
Turkish Front
General der Flieger
Luftflotte 2
Luftwaffe
Mechelen Incident
Albert Kesselring
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
Special Staff F
Iraq
occupied Greece
LXVIII Army Corps
Yugoslavia
XXXIV Army Corps
Yugoslav Partisan General Offensive
Hostages Trial
war crimes
Darmstadt
Generalmajor
Abwehr
murdered
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
October 5
1897
Brieg
1934
Berlin
Roehm putsch
Karl Schreyer
Heinz Höhne
Otto Strasser
Agatha Christie
August 7
1896
Legnica
June 30
Stadelheim
NSDAP
SA
First World War
Freikorps Rossbach
Upper Silesia
Eastern Border Protection
French occupation of the Ruhr
Albert Leo Schlageter
Ernst Roehm
Edmund Heines
Karl Goetz
Manfred von Killinger
Dresden
Charles Martin Grass
Putsch
Stadelheim prison
Hans Peter von Heydebreck
William Schmid
August Schneidhuber
Hans-Erwin of Spreti Weilbach
Sepp Dietrich
July 1st
1889
Koszalin
June 30th
Munich
Reichstag
German Nationalist Party for Freedom
National Socialist Freedom Party
Nazi party
Hitler
Reichstag,
Herman Santos
Pomerania
Upper Silesian
Kandrzin
Röhm-Putsch
Bad Wiessee
prison Stadelheim prison
Hans Hayn
Hans Joachim von Spreti-Weilbach
Hans Friedrich
Ernst von Salomon
September 24
1908
Karlsruhe
Stadelheim
Sturmabteilung
hippopotamus whip
Emil Maurice
Wilhelm Schmid
Erwein of Aretino
June 3
Reichstag
April 29
1888
Nuremberg
Berlin light field
member of parliament
Röhm Putsch
seizure
German Air Sports Association
Erich Kempka
Ludwig Oldach
18. Juli
1893
Ellwangen
law
University of Tübingen
Dr. jur.
PhD
Balingen
Schorndorf
colonel
SS
top sergeant
Balingen
Horb
Oberdorf
Rottweil
Spaichingen
Sulz
Tuttlingen
Wilhelm Murr
Ulm
Heinrich Himmler
Reinhard Heydrich
Walter Stahlecker
Überlingen
Hitler salute
[3]
Gisevius
Charlottenburg
November 27
1890
Dachau Concentration Camp
July 1
1934
Frontbann
Ernst Röhm
Berlin
Ludendorff
2
Bund Wiking
Schwarze Reichswehr
Grenzschutz
Karl Ernst
SA
Brandenburg
Hitler
Waldemar Geyer
Nazi movement
Edmund Heines
Homosexuellenriege
Munich
Austria
Stenness group
Sturm
Schutzhaft
Reichstag Fire of
German People's National Party
Ernst Oberfohren
Stadelheim prison
Dachau concentration camp
Erwein von Aretin
Erich Gans
Walter Habich
Adam Hereth
Night of Long Knives
Prittlbach
Theodor Eicke
Article 175
February 3
1903
July 2
Lissa German
Ernst Röhm
Breslau
of Woyrsch
Ludwig Engels
July 6
1906
Stolp
camp commander
Stettin
National Socialist German Workers Party
concentration camp
volcano
Joachim Hoffmann
Gustav Fink
Szczecin Regional Court
prison sentence
civic rights
jail Brandenburg
from Anton Hohberg and Buchenwald
September 29
1882
Würzburg
July 1
1934
Dachau concentration camp
Rohm Putsch
Munich
Berlin
received his doctorate
District Court of Augsburg
Landgericht Würzburg
the First World War,
protective custody
masochist
SS camp guard,
Eric Gans
Hereth Adam
Paul Röhrbein
a concentration camp commandant
Theodor Eicke
Reich Ministry of the Interior
Reich Association of German Jews
martial law
August 30
1901
Burscheid
July 2nd
Breslau
Röhm Putsch
economic
legal
political sciences
Cologne
Graz
University of Cologne
promotion
expulsion proceedings
Schmitt man
Organisation Consul
Viking's federal
steel helmet-Combat League
DNVP
Nazi
counsel
Sturmabteilung
district of Wroclaw
Councillor
Heines Oscar
SS
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