On the notorious Night of the Long Knives forces loyal to Adolph Hitler moved to eliminate opposition and challengers to Hitler’s position as leader of the Nazi party. Eighty-five political figures were executed without trial. The threatening power of the irregular SA, the thuggish Brown Shirts, was curtailed. Any potential opposition had lost all senior leadership overnight. In a single swift action Hitler had consolidated power in his hands. The date?
Last Day of June 1934
Three narratives, each starting from an image inspired by a verse of the Al Stewart song ‘The Last Day of June 1934’ twist and cross over the years that follow.
The decades roll past: dangerous times. times for loving, sad times, times of joy, lives lived. A journey through the sixty years that saw Europe torn apart through warfare and rebuilt; from the viewpoints of three very different families!
On the notorious Night of the Long Knives forces loyal to Adolph Hitler moved to eliminate opposition and challengers to Hitler’s position as leader of the Nazi party. Eighty-five political figures were executed without trial. The threatening power of the irregular SA, the thuggish Brown Shirts, was curtailed. Any potential opposition had lost all senior leadership overnight. In a single swift action Hitler had consolidated power in his hands. The date?
Last Day of June 1934
Three narratives, each starting from an image inspired by a verse of the Al Stewart song ‘The Last Day of June 1934’ twist and cross over the years that follow.
The decades roll past: dangerous times. times for loving, sad times, times of joy, lives lived. A journey through the sixty years that saw Europe torn apart through warfare and rebuilt; from the viewpoints of three very different families!