Force of fear

-in 1934, at hitler's requests, heydrich and himmler made lists of people who should be eliminated from the sa. On june 30, the ss and gestapo acted in coordinated arrests that lasted for about two days and killed almost 200 people. This is known as "the night of long knives", which heydrich played a major role in organizing.

-the gestapo was now a force people were afraid of. It had the authority to arrest citizens on the suspicion that they might commit a crime, and it was allowed to imprison people without trial. Heydrich was in charge of all these horrible things.