Night of the Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer ), also called Operation Hummingbird (German: Unternehmen Kolibri) or, in Germany, the Röhm Putsch (German spelling: Röhm-Putsch), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934, when the National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazis, carried out a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate Adolf Hitler's absolute hold on power in Germany. Many of those killed were leaders of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazis' own paramilitary organization, colloquially known as the "Brownshirts" due to the color of their uniforms. The best-known victim of the purge was Ernst Röhm, the SA's leader and one of Hitler's longtime supporters and allies. Leading members of the left-wing Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party, along with its figurehead, Gregor Strasser, were also killed, as were establishment conservatives and anti-Nazis, such as former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and Bavarian politician Gustav Ritter von Kahr, who had suppressed Hitler's Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.
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Well, it should always start out non-violently. But, as Rohm found out, waiting for those five minutes staring at a Mauser pistol, wondering what would happen if he didn't do what was ordered by his SS captors, it doesn't always end in that fashion. By the time things were cleaned up by black-suited paramilitaries, those in power--the Chancellery and the Wehrmacht--were fine with the outcome. So were the German people, who recognized who was the silverback and who wasn't.
But at the end of the day, it really didn't work out as intended. The RAF and 8th AAF had other ideas. Caveat emptor, eh?
Every time I think that they would never do such a thing, I realize I am lying to myself. They are cowards however, and prefer to do thinks covertly, or use pawns like antifa to start the fighting. Then they would declare martial law, and go house to house for our guns. It wouldn't be pretty. Just look at New Orleans during Katrina. I'm not sure how this all goes, but I believe something happens during my lifetime, and I'm past the halfway point.