Editing Night of the Long Knives (section)

==SA leadership==
Hitler named [[Viktor Lutze]] to replace Röhm as head of the SA. Hitler ordered him, as one prominent historian described it, to put an end to "homosexuality, debauchery, drunkenness, and high living" in the SA.{{sfn|Kershaw|1999|p=520}} Hitler expressly told him to stop SA funds from being spent on limousines and banquets, which he considered evidence of SA extravagance.{{sfn|Kershaw|1999|p=520}} Lutze did little to assert the SA's independence in the coming years, and the organization lost its power in Germany. Its membership plummeted from 2.9 million in August 1934 to 1.2 million in April 1938.{{sfn|Evans|2005|p=40}}

According to [[Albert Speer]], "the Right, represented by the President, the Minister of Justice, and the generals, lined up behind Hitler&nbsp;... the strong left wing of the party, represented chiefly by the SA, was eliminated."{{sfn|Speer|1995|pp=90–93}}

Röhm was purged from all [[Nazi propaganda]], such as ''[[The Victory of Faith]]'', the [[Leni Riefenstahl]] film about the 1933 [[Nuremberg rally]], which showed Röhm frequently alongside Hitler. A copy of the original film, before Röhm was edited out, was found in the 1980s in the [[East Germany|German Democratic Republic]]'s film archives.<ref>Trimborn, Jürgen (2008) ''Leni Riefenstahl: A Life''. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. {{ISBN|978-1-4668-2164-4}}. {{Page needed|date=June 2022}}</ref>