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However the SA were

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Wiewed negatively in the public because of their violence
The army which hitler needed hated rohms idea of mixing them with SA
as rohm was in charge of a large number of men hitler feared his power

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SA leader

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Ernst rohm believed because of his role in helping hitler to power they would be entitled a significant role in the new state

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Rohm and the SA tended to be on the left side of the party and

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Wanted hitler to make them the vanguard of the so called revolution
This would have meant implementing social aspects of the nazi ideas eg conservative elements swept away but hitler needed this to stay in power

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The night of the long knives

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30 June 1934
Rohm and about 400 leaders of the SA were murdered by the SS with army support
Hitler also took this time to have schleicher and Gregor strasser killed to secure his own position.

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The move was

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Both illegal and ruthless but proved popular

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When Hindenburg died

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2 August 1934 these actions cleared the way for hitlers total supremacy
He combined offices of president and chancellor and every soldier swore an oath to him
He was now not constrained by any constitutional limits therefore lady of the party army and nation

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Catholic Church

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Hitler was more wary of Catholics than Protestants inside Germany
14 July 1933 Catholic Church signed a concordat To preserve its independence

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Protistant church

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Govt turned the evangelican into one united reichstag church with a nazi as bishop
However100+ plasters reacted by forming splinter movement which aimed at preserving Protestantism
And other attempts to make a more nazified church failed

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Army

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1933 hitler won over the army when he agreed to honour their traditions and political neutrality
They were also impressed by talk of rearmament and conscription
The army escaped coordination

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Who stayed intact

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Bureaucratic and big business elites