How does this image relate to the Nazi attempts to create a one party state?

1. How does this image relate to the Nazi attempts to create a one party state? Operation Hummingbird, better known as . ..

2. The Night of the Long Knives 30th June 1934 Ernst Rohm was the leader of the Sturm Abteilung (SA or Brown shirts or storm troopers) Hitler's stormtroopers were often former members of the Freikorps (right-wing private armies who flourished during the period that followed the First World War) and had considerable experience in using violence against their rivals. The SA wore grey jackets, brown shirts (khaki shirts originally intended for soldiers in Africa but purchased in bulk from the German Army by the Nazi Party), swastika armbands, ski-caps, knee-breeches, thick woolen socks and combat boots.

3. Accompanied by bands of musicians and carrying swastika flags, they would parade through the streets of Munich. At the end of the march Hitler would make one of his passionate speeches that encouraged his supporters to carry out acts of violence against Jews and his left-wing political opponents.

4. Adolf is a swine. His old friends are not good enough for him. Adolf is turning into a gentleman. He wants to sit on a hill top and pretend he is god. He knows exactly what I want . . . The generals are a lot of fogeys . . . I’, the nucleus of the new army Ernst Rohm, drunk in 1934, quoted by H Rauschning in his book Hitler speaks (1940)

5. With an SS escort, the Fuhrer knocked gently on Rohm’s door: “A message from Munich”, he said in a disguised voice. “Come in” Rohm shouted, “the door is open”. Hitler tore open the door, fell on Rohm as he lay on the bed, grabbed him by the throat and screamed, “you are under arrest, you pig!” Then he turned him over to the SS Extracts fro Alfred Rosenbergs diary. He was a leading Nazi politician. Hitler claimed that 61 had been executed while 13 had been shot resisting arrest and three had committed suicide. Others have argued that as many as 400 people were killed during the purge.

6. An SS guardsman. SS stood for Schutzstaffel. It was created in 1925 as Hitler personal bodyguard. To remember which came first the SA or the SS remember them alphabetically. SA replaced bySS

7. I ordered the leaders of the guilty to be shot. If anyone asks why I did not use the courts of justice, I say this: in this hour, I was responsible for the fate of the German people and I became the supreme judge of the German people. Hitler, in a speech to the Reichstag on 13 July 1934

8. They salute with both hands now

9. "Will the audience kindly keep their seats."

11. Source A Adolf is a swine. His old friends are not good enough for him. Adolf is turning into a gentleman. He wants to sit on a hill top and pretend he is god. He knows exactly what I want . . . The generals are a lot of fogeys . . . I’m the nucleus of the new army. Ernst Rohm, drunk in 1934, quoted by H Rauschning in his book Hitler speaks (1940) Source A Adolf is a swine. His old friends are not good enough for him. Adolf is turning into a gentleman. He wants to sit on a hill top and pretend he is god. He knows exactly what I want . . . The generals are a lot of fogeys . . . I’m the nucleus of the new army. Ernst Rohm, drunk in 1934, quoted by H Rauschning in his book Hitler speaks (1940) Source B With an SS escort, the Fuhrer knocked gently on Rohm’s door: “A message from Munich”, he said in a disguised voice. “Come in” Rohm shouted, “the door is open”. Hitler tore open the door, fell on Rohm as he lay on the bed, grabbed him by the throat and screamed, “you are under arrest, you pig!” Then he turned him over to the SS Extracts fro Alfred Rosenbergs diary. He was a leading Nazi politician. Source B With an SS escort, the Fuhrer knocked gently on Rohm’s door: “A message from Munich”, he said in a disguised voice. “Come in” Rohm shouted, “the door is open”. Hitler tore open the door, fell on Rohm as he lay on the bed, grabbed him by the throat and screamed, “you are under arrest, you pig!” Then he turned him over to the SS Extracts fro Alfred Rosenbergs diary. He was a leading Nazi politician. Source C I ordered the leaders of the guilty to be shot. If anyone asks why I did not use the courts of justice, I say this: in this hour, I was responsible for the fate of the German people and I became the supreme judge of the German people. Hitler, in a speech to the Reichstag on 13 July 1934 Source C I ordered the leaders of the guilty to be shot. If anyone asks why I did not use the courts of justice, I say this: in this hour, I was responsible for the fate of the German people and I became the supreme judge of the German people. Hitler, in a speech to the Reichstag on 13 July 1934