Adalbert Probst (1900 – 1934) was a Catholic Youth leader in Germany during Nazi period. He was killed during Hitler's 1934

Night of the Long Knives The Night of the Long Knives (, ), also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird (), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ord ...

purge. Probst was national director of the Catholic Youth Sports Association. The Catholic Church in Germany had resisted attempts by the new Nazi Government to close its youth organisations. Probst, along with Erich Klausener (head of

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) and Fritz Gerlich (editor of Munich's Catholic weekly, ''Der Gerade Weg'') were among the high-profile Catholic opposition figures targeted for assassination in the Night of the Long Knives of the summer of 1934, an early effort by Hitler to assert his dominance of German politics through violence. Probst was abducted and later found dead, allegedly "shot while trying to escape".John S. Conway; ''The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-1945''; p.92

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