 At the time no public reference was made to the alleged SA rebellion, but only generalised references to misconduct, perversion and some sort of plot.In a nationally broadcast speech to the Reichstag on 13 July, Hitler justified the purge as a defence against treason.Before the events of the Night of the Long Knives concluded, not only was Röhm dead, but more than 200 additional people had been killed, including Nazi official Gregor Strasser, former chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher, and Franz von Papen's secretary, Edgar Jung.