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Humiliating First Foreign Visit
- Hitler's first foreign trip to meet Mussolini in Venice humiliated him with pomp and mockery.
- The meeting achieved little despite press claims of success.
SA Power Threatened Hitler's Alliances
- The SA's mass size gave them political muscle and an appetite for a 'second revolution'.
- Their demands threatened Hitler's deal with conservatives and the army.
SA's Ambition Alarmed The Army
- Ernst Röhm and the SA pushed to fold the regular army into their ranks and form a people's army.
- That prospect alarmed the military and conservative elites crucial to Hitler's plans.