Is there a book I can read? I’ve fallen for this oversimplification, yet knowing about the night of the long knives, and incorrectly underatood this bit of history.
Sorry, it’s been ages since I read up on WWII in general, and I don’t have a specific recommendation for you. Roehm wrote a memoir but I think it’s Mein Kampf-esque) rambling and incoherent). Mind you, from the mid 30s onward the Nazis were not especially socialist, so people aren’t necessarily wrong when they point out the “socialist” is a misnomer.
Is there a book I can read? I’ve fallen for this oversimplification, yet knowing about the night of the long knives, and incorrectly underatood this bit of history.
Sorry, it’s been ages since I read up on WWII in general, and I don’t have a specific recommendation for you. Roehm wrote a memoir but I think it’s Mein Kampf-esque) rambling and incoherent). Mind you, from the mid 30s onward the Nazis were not especially socialist, so people aren’t necessarily wrong when they point out the “socialist” is a misnomer.