Sometimes it is not you who put your dreams to sleep, but the other way around.

On the Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler, possibly at the instigation of Göring and Heinrich Himmler, but also possibly at the urging of the army high command, undertook a purge of the SA — an event known to history as the Night of the Long Knives. Ernst's wife and chauffeur were wounded, and he was taken back to Berlin by a detachment of the SS. Some 150 SA leaders, including Ernst, were stood against a wall at the Cadet School at Lichterfelde and shot by Leibstandarte-SS firing squads. Ernst, believing that he faced a putsch from the Conservative, pro-Capitalist, political Right, died shouting Heil Hitler.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ernst