Night of the Long Knives (disambiguation)

Night of the Long Knives is the name for different events. It is often used as a Night of the Long Knives to describe political events, especially in the English-speaking world.

Historical Events

  • The massacre of the British ( Celtic ) nobles by the Anglo-Saxon immigrants in the year 450 in Salisbury, which has been described, among others, from the medieval British historian Geoffrey of Monmouth. The call for murder was therefore by the cry of " Nemet oure Saxas ". In Welsh this event ( " The Treachery of the Long Knives " ) was designated as Brad y Cyllyll Hirion.
  • The so-called Röhm - Putsch of 1934, in which Adolf Hitler ordered the leadership of the SA was turned off. In Germany is the " night of the long knives " usually meant this event. The correspondence Night of the Long Knives is the most common name in English for the Röhm - Putsch.
  • Within the SA and the SS and the November pogroms against Jews in 1938 were sometimes announced by the term.
  • The attack German U- boats on convoy SC -7 in October 1940 was known by this term.
  • The cabinet transformations of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1962, in which he dismissed seven cabinet members.
  • In Northern Ireland, the elimination of the Irish Republican splinter group IPLO ( a spin-off of the INLA ) by the IRA in the fall of 1992. The IPLO was allegedly involved in the drug trade.
  • In Slovakia ( slovak: Noc dlhých nožov ) which took place on 3 and 4 November 1994 first meeting of parliament after the parliamentary elections of 1994, in which one party coalition led by the new Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar all state leadership positions in parliamentary, public and economic area occupied with their own candidates and the opposition lost all control functions.

Recurring events

  • The night of the long knives is the nickname of the Rallye Monte Carlo stage over the Col de Turini.
  • In Switzerland, the term has been used since at the last minute by Felix Auer " orchestrated " choice Otto stitch 1983 used for the night before a Federal election because in controversial cases take place agreements between the various parties often until shortly before the election and campaigned to individual parliamentarians votes will. Especially in the period before the mobile telephony these activities should be partially gone late into the night in the master places the various parliamentary friendship groups across the stage. This use of the term is in Switzerland most often.
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