en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
The Night of the Long Knives (German: About this sound Nacht der langen Messer (help·info)), sometimes called Operation Hummingbird or, in Germany, the Röhm-Putsch, was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders. Leading figures of the left-wing Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party, along with its figurehead, Gregor Strasser, were murdered, as were prominent conservative anti-Nazis (such as former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and Gustav Ritter von Kahr, who had suppressed Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in 1923). Many of those killed were leaders of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary brownshirts.
At least 85 people died during the purge, although the final death toll may have been in the hundreds, and more than a thousand perceived opponents were arrested.[2] Most of the killings were carried out by the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei), the regime's secret police. The purge strengthened and consolidated the support of the Reichswehr for Hitler. It also provided a legal grounding for the Nazi regime, as the German courts and cabinet quickly swept aside centuries of legal prohibition against extra-judicial killings to demonstrate their loyalty to the regime. The Night of the Long Knives was a turning point for the German government. It established Hitler as "the supreme judge of the German people", as he put it in his July 13, 1934 speech to the Reichstag.
Forget about the war years, and the holocaust, and all that stuff...that was just a consequence of turning Germany into a dictatorship in a pretty bloody way.
Even the biggest supporter of Hitler cannot possibly deny this (although I’ve seen them try) because it is 100% fact. Once you’ve violently taken control of a country, dissolved the constitution and killed all your political opponents with no democratic mandate whatsoever, then you have do some pretty good stuff in my eyes for history to view you favourably!
I think it is true that Hitler was genuinely patriotic and also true that he genuinely believed the treatment of Germany after the First World War was unacceptable (which I agree with), and he may even genuinely have wanted to make Germany prosperous. But you cannot go about it like that and then expect history to view you in kindly fashion.
you naughty types. 
