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Hitler, Hess and Hermann Göring are leaving a meeting on early July 1939 when out of nowhere they are knocked backward by an explosion which levels part of the building they are in. Hess is killed instantly as Göring, but the massive girth of the Göring shields Hitler from the brunt of the blast. Hitler lives, but is angry and shaken. He decides its best for Germany to publicly report that a Polish suicide bomber was behind the attack, but in private he believes it had to be an inside job.

An enterprising high ranking member of the Gestapo saw the situation as his chance for true career enhancement and creates a false paper trail leading back to Reinhard Heydrich and even Himmler himself. He organizes a meeting with Hitler in private and presents Hitler with the information. Needly to say Hitler at first has trouble beliving it, but soon his paranoia and anger over the blast gets the best of him and he orders a meeting with his top Army generals in secret and tells them that the SS was behind the attack and is not only his enemy, but the enemy of the Army as well and asks for their help in executing another Night of the Long Knives.

Needless to say the generals were enthusastic to get rid of Himmler and his Pretorian Guard and told Hitler with a secret smile on their faces that they long suspected Himmler and his allies were plotting against him and Germany. In mid July a group groups of armed German soldiers fan out across Germany and liquidate the leadership of the SS placing them against walls in various parts of Germany and gunning them down.

After the purge Hitler decides to turn his attention to planning the upcoming war and decides to put what is left of the SS under the control of the Armed Forces High Command. The war starts as it did OTL.

What would be the long term ramifications of the SS getting its wings clipped as the SA did?
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