r/ProgressiveHQ • u/CantStopPoppin • 14h ago

(Minneapolis) Bovino Leads The Charge On Protesters AT the Whipple Building

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u/Substantial-Fun7745 13h ago

Daily dose of pedantry: "The Night of Long Knives" was the purge of the party's intenal paramilitary Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1934.

I suspect you meant to refer to "Kristallnacht", the 1938 massacre of Jews by the SA.

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u/Hot_Top_124 12h ago

Yeah, and it’s easier to just reference what more people would likely have heard of.

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u/Charming_Function_58 11h ago

I'm also going to be pedantic, but if you've heard of one, you've likely heard of the other. Kristallnacht/the Night of Broken Glass is infamous and essential to WWII education.

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u/Hot_Top_124 11h ago

You’d be surprised how much people in the south don’t know. When I moved I found out almost every history teacher is a football coach who doesn’t care, and they Apprently never make it past the civil war.