Fill in the Blanks THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIEVESOnline version The night of the long knieves and key vocabulary. by Alfonso Poza 1 Knives powerful executed threat Versailles SS angered army opponents Nazi enemies By the summer of 1934 , the SA' had two million men . They were under the control of Ernst Röhm , a loyal follower of Hitler since the early days of the Party . However , Röhm had made within the Nazi Party and the Army . Himmler , Goering and Goebbels were by the power he had gained and convinced Hitler that this was a to his position . Röhm wanted the SA to become the core of a new German military . With the army limited by the Treaty of to one hundred thousand soldiers , its leaders watched anxiously as membership in the SA surpassed two million men by the beginning of 1934 . In January 1934 , Röhm presented a memorandum demanding that the SA replace the regular as the nation's ground forces . On the night of June 29th - June 30th 1934 , units of the arrested the leaders of the SA and other political . The Night of the Long , which took place from June 30 to July 2 , 1934 . Ernst Röhm and other SA leaders , along with a number of Hitler's political enemies , were arrested , shot or . After that date , the SS lead by Heinrich Himmler was to become far more in Nazi Germany as well the Gestapo led by Reinhard Heydrich .
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