30 Jun 1934
- "Night of the Long Knives" began a week of murder and political purging throughout Germany. ww2dbase [TH]
- Admiral Graf Spee was launched. ww2dbase [Admiral Graf Spee | CPC]
- Oranienburg Concentration Camp in Germany was transferred under the jurisdiction of the German justice department. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oranienburg Concentration Camp | Oranienburg, Mark Brandenburg | CPC]
- Gregor Strasser was arrested at his home on the pretext that he was conspiring to overturn the state, and was shot by an SS captain a few hours later in a cell in the secret police headquarters in Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Berlin | AC]
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