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    The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer) was a purge in which Adolf Hitler and the regime of Nazi Germany targeted members of the...
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    The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer), also called the Röhm purge (German: Der Röhm-Putsch) or Operation Hummingbird (German:...
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    Willi Schmid (category Victims of the Night of the Long Knives)
    and an accidental victim of the Night of the Long Knives in a case of mistaken identity. Born in 1893, Willi Schmid served in the Imperial Army in World...
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    Ferdinand von Bredow (category Victims of the Night of the Long Knives)
    Kurt von Schleicher's short-lived cabinet. He was killed during the Night of the Long Knives, for alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow Hitler. He was...
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    Fritz Gerlich (category Victims of the Night of the Long Knives)
    1934 during the Night of the Long Knives. His death was officially announced days after his arrest, and the announcement was published in the international...
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    Kurt von Schleicher (category Victims of the Night of the Long Knives)
    during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. Schleicher was born into a military family in Brandenburg an der Havel on 7 April 1882. Entering the Prussian...
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    Gustav Ritter von Kahr (category Victims of the Night of the Long Knives)
    1930. Because of his actions during the Beer Hall Putsch, he was murdered during the Nazi purge known as the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934. Kahr...
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  • Otto Ballerstedt (category Victims of the Night of the Long Knives)
    of the Long Knives in or near Dachau concentration camp and his body found on the morning of 1 July in the forest near Gündinger Neuhimmelreich. The autopsy...
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    Herbert von Bose (category Victims of the Night of the Long Knives)
    murdered during the Night of the Long Knives in the summer of 1934. During the First World War, Bose served as an Intelligence Officer in the Imperial German...
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    Adalbert Probst (category Victims of the Night of the Long Knives)
    during Hitler's 1934 Night of the Long Knives purge. Probst was national director of the Catholic Youth Sports Association. The Catholic Church in Germany...
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