Night of The Long Knives

Saw a History Channel program the other day..The Night of the Long Knives...on June 30, 1934 occurred an event that in a way changed the course of German history and brought into absolute power that satanic force ..Hitler...the political intrigue, the plot to systematically eradicate all of Hitler's (and his cronies' - Goebbels, Goering, Himmler, Bormann, Heydrich) enemies to pave the way for absolute power...so strange that the world played mute witness to such dramatic changes in Europe then..and so much of water flowed through before things changed...anyhow, the event saw the killing of Ernst Rohm at Bad Wiessee and the top leaders of the SA and the transformation of the SS - from a small regiment serving as bodyguards of Hitler (Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler)to the most feared body within Europe - headed by that small time, scheming ex-school teacher, chicken farm runner ..Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler and his man-at-arm, Reinhard Tristan Heydrich...coming to think of it, had Operation Anthropoid not been successful, had Heydrich continued to live on, unimaginable devastation would have occurred..perhaps it would have been endless Nights of Long Knives for all of us...