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👉Are you holding your breath? --Night of the Long Knives in Virginia? 👈
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...except that General Hodges would have missed out on the #GreatPurge of 1933--two years earlier. 😉
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He *did* probably mean the #NightOfTheLongKnives /#RöhmPutsch / #OperationHummingbird from 06/30-07/02, 1934.85-1,000 of the #SA, including its leader, #ErnstRöhm, as well as #GregorStrasser, and former chancellor, #KurtVonSchleicher were assassinated:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
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possible👈, as the #NSDAP the strongest faction in parliament with 33.1 percent of the vote.]
However, [#Hiler,] the #NSDAP chairman 👉demanded the
leadership of a presidential cabinet – #Hindenburg refused👈 and subsequently appointed the independent #KurtVonSchleicher as Reich Chancellor. But this chancellorship was also short-lived...
👉 On January 30, 1933, #Hitler achieved his goal: #Hindenburg appointed him Reich Chancellor [of the 5th @realSiegfried @jrredho