The name Night of the Long Knives was later used for a violent political purge in Nazi Germany, as well as British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's dismissal of seven members of his cabinet and also the assassination of Alexander Burnes in November 1841 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The name Night of the Long Knives was later used for a violent political purge in Nazi Germany, when Hitler deestroyerd the power of the SA in 1934. It has also been used to refer to the assassination of Alexander Burnes in November 1841 in Kabul, Afghanistan.