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Episode 34, A Night of the Long Knives.

Over the course of three nights in June and July 1934 a.d.

The high commanders of various Nazi political and paramilitary factions were systematically eliminated.

This purge, designed to remove all potential opposition to Hitler's rule,

came to be known as the Nacht-Dilangen Messer, or Night of the Long Knives.

It is an inauspicious name for an episode, but then the events of this episode are not

exactly auspicious. Certainly it is fitting in a convoluted manner,

for the night to which I refer to

as a night quite unlike any other in the middle kingdom.

The event took place in 1961 B.C. the 30th year since

Amenem Hart I took the throne of Upper and Lower Egypt, becoming the first ruler of the 12th dynasty.

It was now 10 years since his son, Sinusaret I, was appointed as co-ruler. A period in which Egypt had conquered a portion of

northern Nubia, expanded its impact into the Western Desert and seen the completion

of the King's Pyramid Tomb at Alist.

Events were proceeding smoothly, and Menom Hart I, who was now at least in his 50s,

could look back on a long and stable rain

with some sense of pride.

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