INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
NAZISM IN GERMANY
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50
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90
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120
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -At least 85 people died during the purge, although the final death toll may have been in the hundreds, with high estimates running from 700 to 1, 000. More than a thousand perceived opponents were arrested.
Detailed explanation-2: -Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings, it was a day of nationwide communal riots. It led to large-scale violence between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India. The day also marked the start of what is known as The Week of the Long Knives.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ernst Röhm, Röhm also spelled Roehm, (born November 28, 1887, Munich, Germany-died July 1, 1934, Munich-Stadelheim), German army officer and chief organizer of Adolf Hitler’s Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung, or SA; Brownshirts).
Detailed explanation-4: -Adolf Hitler, Gregor Strasser, Ernst Röhm and Hermann Göring in 1932; Röhm and Strasser would be killed in the Night of the Long Knives, which in large part was provoked by evidence fabricated by Göring and Heinrich Himmler purporting to show that Röhm was planning a coup.