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The '''Night of the Long Knives''' (also known as "[[Operation Hummingbird]]") was a purge of [[Adolf Hitler]]'s potential political rivals over the weekend of June 29 and June 30, 1934.
The '''Night of the Long Knives''' (also known as "Operation Hummingbird") was a purge of [[Adolf Hitler]]'s potential political rivals over the weekend of June 29 and June 30, 1934.
Those eliminated in the purge were felt to hold more [[socialism|socialistic]] views on the economy and some were alleged to be homosexuals. Among those killed was Hitler's former close ally [[Ernst Röhm]], leader of the [[Brownshirts]] (Sturmabteilung, or SA).
Those eliminated in the purge were felt to hold more [[socialism|socialistic]] views on the economy and some were alleged to be homosexuals. Among those killed was Hitler's former close ally [[Ernst Röhm]], leader of the [[Brownshirts]] (Sturmabteilung, or SA).