Gustav Schwarzenegger
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Gustav Gottfried Schwarzenegger was an Austrian police chief, postal inspector, member of the Sturmabteilung, and military police officer. He was the father of former governor of California and actor
Gustav Schwarzenegger
Gustav and Aurelia Schwarzenegger on their wedding day, October 20, 1945
Night of the Long Knives
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The Night of the Long Knives, also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird, was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann
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…members in 1940, down from 4.2 million in 1934. This six-year decline in SA membership was an extended result of the three-day-long purge known as the Night of the Long Knives, a political purge carried out by Adolf Hitler against the SA, seen at that time as too radical and too powerful by senior military and industrial…
Kurt Daluege, chief of the Ordnungspolizei; Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS; and Ernst Röhm, head of the SA, August 1933
Hitler poses with a Nazi salute in Nuremberg with SA members in 1928. To his left is Julius Streicher, and standing beneath him is Hermann Göring.
SA leader Ernst Röhm in Bavaria in 1931
Franz von Papen, the conservative vice-chancellor who ran afoul of Hitler after denouncing the regime's failure to rein in the SA in his Marburg speech. The photo was taken in 1946 at the Nuremberg trials.