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Originally posted by: Bossk
Book burning. What was that night called?
Bossk, I think it was either called:
Night of the Long Swords
or Night of a Thousand Swords!
It was as Motti said, to remove all political opposition to Hitler's position of power and ideology. The ethnic cleansing, the "purification of the German people", did not extend to just Jews, Blacks, Asians, Communitsts etcetc as Motti has stated, although they were targeted.
ANY GERMAN CITIZEN THAT COULD NOT PROVE HE/SHE WAS A "PURE BLOOD GERMAN" ie ARYAN, AND THIS HAD TO BE PROVEN BACK 3 or 4 GENERATIONS, WAS FORBIDDEN FULL GERMAN CITIZENSHIP.
They were forbidden to marry, work etcetc. If a full German citizen happened to be married to a "non-German" then they either had to divorce said person or lose their right to citizenship.