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- Dictionarynight of the long knives
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- 1. a treacherous massacre or betrayal, especially the massacre of the Brownshirts on Hitler's orders in June 1934.
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The Night of the Long Knives, also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird, was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ordered a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate his power and alleviate the concerns of the German military about the role of Ernst Röhm an... Wikipedia