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Rise to Power: Night of the Long Knives

Adolf Hitler: Rise and Downfall

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The Death of Rome

The SS Brigade Führer Teodor Eike arrives with two subordinates. They find Rome lying on his bed with his shirt off, sweating away in the stifling heat. If I am to be killed, he shouts, let Adolf do it himself. So there's a real moment of experience, drama for the regime. Hitler was very good at presenting himself as the person who wasn't really responsible for the violence of the third-right. And through the night of the long knives, Hitler really played into this expectation.

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