The Night of The Long Knives | Hitler's Rise To Power

In the Summer of 1934 for 1 year and a half, Germans have been living under the thumb of Adolf Hilter.

All it took was a few months for him to obliterate democracy and freedom of the press, and all civil liberties have been abolished.

His opponents have been thrown in jail, the Nazi party has become the only party.

Yet despite all the repression and violence, Hitler's power was still fragile he was torn between the 2 forces that brought him to power, on the one hand, the conservative tendency on the other the revolutionaries of the party he was under pressure and he's going to have to choose a side, he will do so in a decisive act of extreme brutality sacrificing the blood of some of his oldest companions among them his long time friend Ernst Röhm the other great figure of Nazism and the leader of the revolutionary tendency.

It was a wave of assassinations that mark a turning point for Germany and turned it definitively into a Nazi dictatorship.

So in the month of June 1934, an extraordinary criminal operation by the state is underway one that will last for 3 days and forever be remembered as The Night of the Long Knives.