“They salute with both hands now” Cartoon by David Low London Evening Standard, 3 July 1934 Language support: Speer – spear; kauern – to cower/crouch down Depicted personalities from left to right : Hitler – Göbbels – Göring The Night of the Long Knives (German: Röhm-Putsch) SA (Sturmabteilung, stormtroopers / Storm Battalion, brownshirts) under Ernst Röhm (who had participated in the 1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch) wanted to be more than Hitler’s propaganda instrument more members than German army; high-ranking generals warned Hitler about potential danger night of 30 June 1934: Röhm and other major leaders of SA shot by SS (Schutzstaffel, Defence Unit: