1 Jul 1934
- During this month, as "Night of the Long Knives" shattered the SA organization in Germany, the SS took over control of guarding concentration camps. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- On Adolf Hitler's orders, Ernst Röhm, the head of the SA, was shot in a cell at Stadelheim prison in München (Munich), Germany by Theodor Eicke, the SS Commandant of the local Dachau Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [München, München-Oberbayern | AC]
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