The Night of Long Knives
(Literary Digest, 1934)
This article reported on a nasty event that took place in Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934 and it has come to be known as “the Night of long knives”. In the immediate aftermath, the Western press had a hard time figuring it out, but the long and short of it revealed that Hitler had killed a good many of his political rivals and consolidated his power.


















































