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Sturmabteilung or the Brownshirts. In the s, he helped Hitler secure the support of the army in Bavaria and was later imprisoned for his role in Hitler's failed Beer Hall putsch. The Night of the Long Knives as the June 30th massacre came to be called is the Nazi regime's baptism of fire.

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It secures for Hitler the German Army's gratitude and unquestioning loyalty thereafter. It also translates into a big power gain for Himmler and the SS who now represent the new armed wing of the Nazi Party with the SA neutralized and absorbed into its ranks. Schleicher and Bredow happened to be anti-Nazi in their beliefs and strongly opposed to Hitler's plans to nazify the German Army.

In both cases, a knock on the door is followed by a hail of bullets that kills Schleicher and Bredow. The German conspirators who attempted to overthrow Hitler and the Nazi regime from to never forgot the June 30th massacre. Many held it up as proof that Hitler would stop at nothing to achieve his demonic ends and could only be removed in the same manner.

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