Kurt Daluege was a high-ranking German police and SS official who served as chief of Ordnungspolizei of Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1943, as well as the Deputy/Acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia fr
Daluege in 1936
Himmler and Daluege (right), at the swearing in of Austrian police to Hitler in Heroes' Square during the Anschluss.
Daluege (right) in Kraków in 1939, shaking hands with Heinrich Himmler (left). Hans Frank (center) stands between them.
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
Kurt Daluege
…Prussian Interior Ministry and placed him in charge of the Prussian police forces. In that position, he played an important role in carrying out the Night of the Long Knives, in which Ernst Röhm and other leading members of the SA were murdered. By late 1934, his authority was extended to include all of Germany, and two…
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.