1. The Night of the Long Knives June 1934 By Joshua Mottram, Kieran Morrison and Anas Elmadani

2. Hitler’s rise to power From the period 1929-1934 the Nazi’s were rising to power and The Night of the Long Knives was what virtually allowed Hitler to become the Fuhrer.

3. What happened? President Hindenburg still in overall charge, but was old and senile and wanted Hitler to become President. The threat of the SA

4. The SA The SA were starting to be seen as an embarrassment and the army regarded them as no more than a rabble. The army also feared them due to there numbers and because their leader, Ernst Rohm, had openly spoken about taken over the real army. Heinrich Himmler, Herman Goering and Joseph Goebbels, 3 powerful Nazis, didn’t like Rohm and strated convincing Hitler that the SA were a threat. Many Nazi’s also didn’t like Rohm because he was a homosexual and many Nazi’s already held that prejudice.

5. Hitler takes action Hitler’s support of the rich business men and industrialists endangered. They had funded him up to 1933. Code word: “Hummingbird”. Those two nights of the Long Knives roughly 400 SA were killed and Rohm was arrested.

6. Hitler in total control With any opposition that threatened the Nazi party gone and with Hindenburg having no intentions in stopping Hitler, he was in total control. Hindenburg’s death, Hitler officially the Fuhrer.

7. Between January 1933 and August 1934 Hitler had changed Germany from a democracy to a Nazi dictatorship, the Weimar Republic was finished and the Third Reich had begun. Hitler had total control of Germany.

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