The Night of the Long Knives
4 min readJul 22, 2019
“If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people.”
— Adolf Hitler July 13, 1934
When Hitler rose to power in early 1933, he owed much of his success to the muscle of his Nazi Storm Troopers, the…
