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On June 30, 1934, Adolf Hitler launched his “blood purge” of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be known as the “Night of the Long Knives.”

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 32 points 1 day ago

Also on this date: In 1918, labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs was arrested in Cleveland, charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 for a speech he’d made two weeks earlier denouncing U.S. involvement in World War I. (Debs was sentenced to prison and disenfranchised for life.)

In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that the government could not prevent The New York Times or The Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank god that’s all over.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

And it never happened ever again in history or right now and we all lived happily ever after.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Purging the more socialist elements (among others) makes me think of this

Beefsteak Nazi (German: Rindersteak-Nazi),[1][2] or "Roast-beef Nazi", was a term used in Nazi Germany to describe communists and socialists who joined the Nazi Party. Munich-born American historian Konrad Heiden was one of the first to document this phenomenon in his 1936 book Hitler: A Biography, remarking that in the Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts, SA) ranks there were "large numbers of Communists and Social Democrats" and that "many of the storm troops were called 'beefsteaks' – brown outside and red within".[3] The switching of political parties was at times so common that SA men would jest that "[i]n our storm troop there are three Nazis, but we shall soon have spewed them out".

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago