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Rise to Power: Night of the Long Knives

Adolf Hitler: Rise and Downfall

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The Purge of Pappen

Hitler tells Goebbels to call Goering an issue the code word, Calibri, Hummingbird. The purge is now on. In Munich, Ernst Rome sits around the Brown House wondering what the hell is going on. But soon he's joining the other SA luminaries thrust into a cell in Stadlheim Prison. Up in Berlin, the SS are out with machine guns, some really executing anyone connected with SA authority.

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