The purge is known as the “Night of the Long Knives” or “Operation Hummingbird.” These murders cemented an agreement between the Nazi Regime and the German army (Reichswehr). This enabled Hitler to proclaim himself Führer of National Socialist Germany and to claim absolute power.
Q. What is the difference between the SS and the Gestapo?
Adolf Hitler appoints SS chief Heinrich Himmler chief of all German police units. All police powers are now centralized. The Gestapo (German secret state police) comes under Himmler’s control. Responsible for state security, it has the authority to send individuals to concentration camps.
Table of Contents
- Q. What is the difference between the SS and the Gestapo?
- Q. What were the functions and roles of the SS?
- Q. What happened to the brown shirts?
- Q. What was the blood purge?
- Q. Why was the Night of the Long Knives significant?
- Q. What was the outcome of the Night of the Long Knives?
- Q. What was the significance of the Reichstag fire?
- Q. How long is a Reich?
- Q. What Reich is Germany in?
- Q. What changes did the Enabling Act Germany?
- Q. Who was the leader of the German Labour front?
Q. What were the functions and roles of the SS?
In the Nazi state, the SS assumed leading responsibility for security, identification of ethnicity, settlement and population policy, and intelligence collection and analysis. The SS controlled the German police forces and the concentration camp system.
Q. What happened to the brown shirts?
“What happened is that the Brownshirts, the Stormtrooper bully boys, became auxiliary police. They went after communists, trade unionists and socialists after the Nazis came to power,” Blackbourn said. “In many ways, it resembles the violent carceral regime against which we are now raising our voices.”
Q. What was the blood purge?
Hitler’s infamous “Blood Purge” of June 1934, in which Röhm and other SA leaders were summarily executed, also claimed the lives of Kurt von Schleicher, the last chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and his wife, who were murdered in their home.
Q. Why was the Night of the Long Knives significant?
Legacy. The Night of the Long Knives represented a triumph for Hitler, and a turning point for the German government. It established Hitler as “the supreme leader of the German people”, as he put it in his July 13 speech to the Reichstag.
Q. What was the outcome of the Night of the Long Knives?
30 June 1934 This destroyed all opposition to Hitler within the Nazi Party and gave power to the brutal SS. It also showed the rest of the world what a tyrant Hitler was. This removed any internal Nazi Party opposition to Hitler.
Q. What was the significance of the Reichstag fire?
The Reichstag Fire Decree suspended most civil liberties in Germany, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association and public assembly, and the secrecy of the post and telephone. These rights were not reinstated during Nazi reign.
Q. How long is a Reich?
The Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary indicates that in English usage, the term “the Reich” refers to “Germany during the period of Nazi control from 1933 to 1945”.
Q. What Reich is Germany in?
The history of the nation-state known as the German Reich is commonly divided into three periods: German Empire (1871–1918) Weimar Republic (1918–1933)…German Reich.
| German Empire | 1871–1918 |
|---|---|
| Weimar Republic | 1918–1933 |
| Nazi Germany | 1933–1945 |
| World War II | 1939–1945 |
Q. What changes did the Enabling Act Germany?
The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers and followed on the heels of the Reichstag Fire Decree. The decree abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the German cabinet led by Hitler. The subsequent Enabling Act allowed the chancellor to pass and enforce laws without any objection.
Q. Who was the leader of the German Labour front?
Robert Ley
