HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴👉Are you holding your breath? --Night of the Long Knives in Virginia? 👈
ETA:
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...except that General Hodges would have missed out on the #GreatPurge of 1933--two years earlier. 😉
ETA2:
He *did* probably mean the #NightOfTheLongKnives /#RöhmPutsch / #OperationHummingbird from 06/30-07/02, 1934.
85-1,000 of the #SA, including its leader, #ErnstRöhm, as well as #GregorStrasser, and former chancellor, #KurtVonSchleicher were assassinated:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
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