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Night of the Long Knives and destruction of the SA quells internal disorder; the state becomes personalized and incoherent. “The mass of competing institutions and conflicting competencies effectively prevented the ‘normative’ state machine from asserting itself against the arbitrary interventions of the
‘prerogative’ apparatus and doomed it to a slow decline in its power and autonomy.” (49)