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Why Hitler was not
opposed over the Night of
the Long Knives
- Potential Oppostion
- SA
- Now had no leaders
- Poorly tained
- Not well orgainised
- People (Popular Revolt)
- Intimidated by this
audacious act
- Many thought of them
as respectable
- Disliked Rohm and SA
- No other party to turn to
- Other Politicians
and Parties
- Von Papen under house arrest
- One party state
- No organised legal opposition
- Communists
banned
- Hindenburg
- Old and Frail
- Disliked Rohm and SA
- Wanted stability
- Placating others
- Army
- Best trained fighting
force in Germany
- Saw SA as a
threat and
despised them
- No more Rohm
- Conservatives and Elite
- Left-wing Rohm gone
- Rohm was not liked by the elite
- Hitler was
showing himself
as a strong leader
- Hindenburg
- Pleased with Hitler "Nipping
treason in the bud"
- Even sent Hitler a telegram
- Feared Communism and
socialists more than a
Stable government under
the little Bohemian corporal
- Other Nazis
- Goebbels, Himmler and
Goering all hated Rohm
- Rohm disliked for
his more Socialist
ideals
- Respectability &
Maneuvering
- People
- Happy with most measures
- Disliked SA intimidation
- Glad to be rid of Rohm
- Propaganda
- Hitler shown to be righteous
- Good riddance of Rohm
- Taking out the
disreputable members
of the Nazi Party
- More respectable
people in the party
- Rohm shown to be an
embarrassment both to
the Nazis and Germany
- No more SA
- SA resented by
upper classes as
thugs
- Rid Hitler of a powerful force
- 2 million members of the SA
- Biggest armed force in Germany
- Could potentially
unseat Hitler if Rohm
so wished
- Intimidation in this way
had failed to work in
elections