The friction within the Hitler movement between the supporters of nationalism and socialism led to the massacre unleashed by Hitler on June 30, 1934, known as the "Night of the Long Knives". The entire top of the SA, headed by Ernst Röhm, was liquidated, Gregor Strasser, the former Reich Chancellor, Kurt von Schleicher and Gustav von Kahr, who had suppressed the Munich "beer putsch" ten years earlier, were killed. To achieve new goals, Hitler needed other people.Max Gallo created a masterpiece of non-fiction dedicated to the ominous events of those years, the scale of this gothic panorama shocks with dark and cruel coloring.