Fun fact: historians call Hitler’s purge of Ernst Röhm and other brownshirts “The Night of the Long Knives”. Ironically enough, Hitler used that expression in a post-purge speech in which he claimed that Röhm had himself been planning a night of the long knives assassination of Hitler and other Nazi leaders. Quite unintentionally, the expression came to be used to describe Hitler’s actions.
Fun fact: historians call Hitler’s purge of Ernst Röhm and other brownshirts “The Night of the Long Knives”. Ironically enough, Hitler used that expression in a post-purge speech in which he claimed that Röhm had himself been planning a night of the long knives assassination of Hitler and other Nazi leaders. Quite unintentionally, the expression came to be used to describe Hitler’s actions.