What Was the Night of the Long Knives

question 16

Multiple Choice

What was the Night of the Long Knives?

• A) a round of brutal street fighting between Nazi and communists gangs immediately after Hitler's rise to power
• B) an attack on the Reichstag in Berlin by anarchists
• C) a nickname for the first round of arrests that sent thousands of German Jews into concentration camps
• D) a lethal purge of Hitler's SA in 1934, killing over a thousand officials he considered too radical
• E) the nickname for the coordinated attacks made on Jewish businesses and synagogues in 1938

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