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This picture depicts the Night of the Long Knives.

What impact did the Night of the Long Knives have on opposition to the Nazis? C – to explain the impact of the Night of the Long Knives B+ - to explain how effective opposition from within the party was likely to be after the Night of the Long Knives.

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  1. What impact did the Night of the Long Knives have on opposition to the Nazis?C – to explain the impact of the Night of the Long Knives B+ - to explain how effective opposition from within the party was likely to be after the Night of the Long Knives This picture depicts the Night of the Long Knives. What do you think the Night of the Long Knives was? What impact did it have on opposition?

  2. Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. President Hindenburg appointed him as Hitler was the leader of the largest party in the Reichstag and all the other leading politicians who had tried to do it had been too weak and/or received votes of no confidence. However, he didn’t have complete control yet – he needed to get rid of the threat of the Communists and remove Hindenburg who was more powerful than him. Another of his main problems was from within the Nazi party itself. The SA had become too powerful – they were the thugs of the party who roamed the streets beating up Communists. They seemed to do whatever they liked. Their leader Rohm was also a rival of Hitler’s. He was also a homosexual which didn’t support Nazi ideology. Hitler also had problems from the left of the Nazi party led by GregorStrasser who wanted to give more to the workers and trade unions. The army and traditionalists were also angry at how the SA could do whatever they liked – the traditionalists in the Weimar Germany had only just lifted a ban on the SA. Why was Hitler so worried about the SA? Why was he so worried about the left?

  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSjkpaXlXIE&safe=active 2 hr 28. 10s June 1933 • Hitler killed Rohm and GregorStrasser • He executed around 400 more particularly rebellious SA members • Hitler’s top Nazis Goring and Goebbels, helped him The SA became subordinate to the SS, they had to do what they said, and the SS were Hitler’s personal body guard. Army had to swear personal loyalty to Hitler and agreed to stay out of politics. The Left of the party became helpless.

  4. Fill this in The Result! The Problem The Solution

  5. What inferences can you make about the causes of the Night of the Long Knives from this source? Is this source accurate in explaining what caused the Night of the Long Knives (what is true about it and does it leave anything out about the causes)? • Gregor Strasser, speech in the Reichstag (May, 1934) • The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work. If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered. The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

  6. What inferences can you make about the Night of the Long Knives from this source? You MUST use the provenance in your answer.

  7. What impact did the Night of the Long Knives have on opposition to the Nazis? • How serious would opposition have been to the Nazis after this event?

  8. By August 1934 Hitler subjugated the SA, killed Rohm and the left of the party. He had also managed to imprison all Communists after he blamed them for burning down the Reichstag, something which the Nazis probably did. The Nazis also got the Enabling Act passed, which meant they could make any law they wanted to, using the excuse that they needed to control the Communists. Finally, Hindenburg died. Hitler was now called Fuhrer, meaning leader, and was in complete control of Germany.

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