Bruno Jasieński. The conspiracy of the indifferent (№ 373471)

When it came the long-promised "night of the long knives", civilians rescued Hitler from ruin, prudently locked himself in the apartments, window curtains tightly. They tried not to even look for a ladder on which the brown Praetorian guard "handsome Adolf" had been dragged down a bloody Marxists and Jews think of trying to escape.
Berlin looked like in those days, as a city broken a long siege, after the accession of enemy troops. The streets cold draught was blowing fear.