Stormtroopers : a new history of Hitler's Brownshirts /

Stormtroopers : a new history of Hitler's Brownshirts / Daniel Siemens.

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The first full history of the Nazi Stormtroopers whose muscle brought Hitler to power, with revelations concerning their longevity and their contributions to the Holocaust Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Siemens, Daniel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. > Sturmabteilung.
Germany > History > 1918-1933.
Germany > History > 1933-1945.
Germany.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a night of violence
  • Turmoil in post-war Germany and the origins of the Nazi SA
  • Stormtrooper street politics: mobilization in times of crisis
  • The SA cult of youth and violence in the Weimar Republic
  • Terror, excitement, and frustration
  • The "Röhm purge" and the myth of the homosexual Nazi
  • The transformation of the SA between 1934 and 1939
  • Streetfighters into farmers? The SA and the "Germanization" of the European east
  • Stormtroopers in the Second World War
  • SA diplomats and the Holocaust in Southeastern Europe
  • "Not guilty": the legacy of the SA in Germany after the Second World War
  • Conclusion: the SA and National Socialism.

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