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History. Bad Wiessee became notorious as the scene of the key events linked to the Night of the Long Knives, 30 June 1934, when Adolf Hitler and the Schutzstaffel (SS) purged the leadership of the Sturmabteilung (SA), many of whom were staying at the resort, in the Hotel Hanselbauer.
Apr 25, 2018 · The former Kurhaus Hanslbauer hotel in Bad Wiessee, where Hitler arrested his former ally and friend Ernst Röhm. The drama in question was the start of the Night of the Long Knives, the name given to the national purge of political undesirables from Hitler’s Reich, which started at the Lederer Hotel with the leader of the brownshirts ...
Hitler was present when Röhm and other SA leaders were arrested at the Hanselbauer Hotel in the Bavarian town of Bad Wiessee. Röhm was shot to death on July 1, 1934. Photo by Ostermann.
The Night of the Long Knives ( German: Nacht der langen Messer ⓘ ), also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird (German: Unternehmen Kolibri ), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934.
Bad Wiessee is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Upper Bavaria in Germany. Since 1922, it has been a spa town and located on the western shore of the Tegernsee Lake. It had a population of around 4800 inhabitants in 2014.
On June 30, 1934, the Nazis went into action. SA’s senior management had gone to the spa town of Bad Wiessee, about fifty kilometres south of Munich to spend some days at pension Hanselbauer.
A column of cars containing Hitler and the SS sped off toward the resort hotel at Bad Wiessee to surprise him. Along the way they were joined by trucks containing Hitler's personal bodyguard, the Leibstandarte-SS, under the command of Sepp Dietrich.
