Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, July 18, 2009 1:13:42 AM
"The Night of the Long Knives is a reminder that totalitarianism is all the same, everywhere, all the time. It is a reminder that every totalitarian leader is a jealous god. Hitler murdered not to prevent socialism but to make sure he had power. He murdered religious leaders, like he enslaved businessmen, to make sure he, alone, had power."
Seventy-Five Years after the Night of the Long Knives
By Bruce Walker
June 30, 2009 is the seventy-fifth anniversary of a ghastly reminder about the nature of evil in the modern world. The Night of the Long Knives showed, for those who still needed to be convinced, that the only object of totalitarianism is power. Adolf Hitler ordered the extermination of those who he considered a threat to his power. Bland histories of Nazi Germany portray this as the destruction of the SA (the Nazi paramilitary force commanded by Ernst Roehm) as a way of placating the German Army or the liquidation of the Left wing of the Nazi Party, led by men like Greggor Strasser, once the second most powerful Nazi.
Continued...