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# In the summer of 1934 Hitler instructed the SS to kill Ernst Röhm and other leaders of the Nazi party's SA, former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and several aides to former Chancellor Franz von Papen in the so-called Night of the Long Knives ( June 30, 1934 / July 1, 1934 ).

These measures received retrospective sanction in a special one-article Law Regarding Measures of State Self-Defense ( Gesetz über Maßnahmen der Staatsnotwehr ) ( July 3, 1934 ).