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   Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 17-Aug-2025 22:50:37 JST Adam Greenfield

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   The Night of the Long Knives was the June-July ‘34 purge of Ernst Röhm and his faction of the SA leadership, for reasons that included Röhm’s increasingly indiscreet homosexuality and his taking the “socialism” in National Socialism rather more seriously than the NSDAP’s new partners in the German industrial & financial sectors were willing to countenance.

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     Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 17-Aug-2025 22:50:38 JST Adam Greenfield

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     A refresher: Kristallnacht was the Nov ‘38 antisemitic pogrom organized by the SA – the Sturmabteilung, the brownshirts – so named for the shards of glass from smashed windows that covered the streets of Germany the next day.

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     Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 17-Aug-2025 22:50:39 JST Adam Greenfield

     Just saw someone use the expression “night of the long knives” when they clearly meant to invoke “Kristallnacht.” Let’s keep our allusions to pivotal events of the Nazi period straight, people! We’ll be needing them.