As a listener of The Rest is History (tl;dr enough knowledge to be dangerous...) I think the Night of the Long Knives is a different case - that was Hitler taking out other Nazis leaders so he could take over the party. Kristallnacht seems a better (horrific) comparison.As a listener of The Rest is History (tl;dr enough knowledge to be dangerous...) I think the Night of the Long Knives is a different case - that was Hitler taking out other Nazis leaders so he could take over the party. Kristallnacht seems a better (horrific) comparison.