Timeline Tuesday 10 July 1934

Events on Tuesday 10 July 1934 2

• 1878 – 1934 Erich Mühsam (1878-1934) Died 10 July 1934, aged 56 German anarchist poet and playwright who took part in the Bavarian Soviet Republic. SS guards murdered him at Oranienburg concentration camp.
• 1934 NKVD takes over Soviet state security OGPU absorbed into the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs The OGPU secret police was merged into a reorganised all-Union NKVD under Genrikh Yagoda. The NKVD went on to carry out the Great Purge.