Why did the night of long knives took place and ..?

Question

i wonder why it involved the words long knives?

Was the entire SA been purged?

Answer 1

Ernst Rohm (I don't have an umlaut to put on "o") was the only close associate of Hitler that Hitler ordered to be killed. Rohm had an idea of SA serving as a German army, so Hitler had to sacrifice him in order to appease the Wehrmacht, because the army could pose a threat to Hitler's political power. Rohm was the second most powerful person in Germany till then.

Answer 2

The SA had served its purpose to Hitler and his cronies and it was time for them to tie off loose ends.

They knew too many things, and they were not trusted enough by Hitler to stay alive.

The words "long knives" is symbolic for them being killed silently and secretly, like you would use a dagger or a long knife for.

Some of the SA were spared since they were deemed worthy of moving up to their replacement, the SS.

Answer 3

Your right about Rohm gaining to much power and Hitler wanting to consolidate his secret police/ personnel guard, but the term long knives refers to the daggers carried by the SS, issued when they graduated from the Hitler youth

Answer 4

It was a phrase to describe the murder of Ernst Roehm and his followers in the SA which occurred all on the same night( 1934 I think).
Hitler was afraid that they had become too independent and undisciplined and might pose a threat to his absolute power.