The Night Of The Long Knives

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Harper & Row
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 1972
Edition: Fourth Edition

Description: 310 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. For Months The S.A. Had Terrorised And Scandalized Germany.This Is The Story Of How Their Rule Was Broken,by Their Own Closest Allies, Hitler, Himmler, Goering And Goebbels

Publishers Description: By the summer of 1934 Adolf Hitler, appointed chancellor by the moribund President von Hindenburg, had amassed considerable political power, but hardline elements in his own Party that were instrumental to his rise now accused him of betraying the National Socialist agenda. A zealous Nazi and notorious homosexual, Ernst Roehm was the leader of the Partys paramilitary force, the Sturmabteilung (SA) or "Brown Shirts," which at its peak was over four million strong. He had once been Hitlers close friend but had become his most vehement critic. Hitlers response was the Night of Long Knives, the term coined by him to describe the well-planned orgy of arrest, assassination, and execution that he personally led against his former comrades during the weekend of June 29, 1934. Step by step, our by hour, Max Gallo reconstructs the events that caused Himmler, Heydrich, G¶ring, and the Germany Army itself to convince Hitler to eliminate their rivals. Here in vivid detail is the epic clash between the brutal fanaticism of Roehms SA and the cold-blooded cynicism of the SS, and how Hitler used it to augment his power and cement his position.

ISBN: 0006133290