The Night of the Long Knives

Question 1

Hitler was concerned with the ___ violent and ____ behaviour. Its leader, ______, had ambitions to place himself at the head of a merged ______.

Answer 1

SA’s

uncontrollable

Ernest Röhm

SA and army

Question 2

Rohm openly _____ Hitler’s compliance with the ____ in ____ and called for a _____ to complete the ________.

Answer 2

condemned

elite

1933

second revolution

Nazi uprising.

Question 3

Hitler could not afford to upset the ____, whose ____ he needed. Since the army was _____ to the __, he increasingly took the view that the SA had served its ____.

Answer 3

Army

loyalty

hostile

SA

purpose