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Format: 1 online resource (519 pages)

ISBN: 9780300231250

Content: 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.

Content: Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph page -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION A Night of Violence -- Borderland Mentalities -- Ruffians, Killers, Political Hooligans -- New Perspectives -- Two Sides of Violence -- The Line of Argumentation -- Figures -- PART I -- 1 TURMOIL IN POST-WAR GERMANY AND THE ORIGINS OF THE NAZI SA -- Fighting for Order -- Establishing the Stormtroopers -- A Public Nuisance -- The Crucial Year of 1923 -- The Aftermath of the Putsch -- 2 STORMTROOPER STREET POLITICS Mobilization in Times of Crisis -- Early Reforms -- From Splinter Group to Mass Movement -- The Nazi Uniform and the Authorities -- Laughing at the Stormtroopers -- The Escalation of Violence -- Unemployment and Social Unrest in the SA -- Brownshirts in the Countryside -- The Danger of Stormtrooper Violence -- 3 THE BROWN CULT OF YOUTH AND VIOLENCE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC -- Militant Masculinity -- Female Nazi Activism -- Satisfying Emotional Needs -- Stormtrooper Merchandising -- Smoking Politics -- Modern Crusaders -- Relations with the Reichswehr -- PART II -- 4 TERROR, EXCITEMENT, AND FRUSTRATION -- Mixed Feelings and New Opportunities -- Hunting and Humiliating the Enemy -- Reactions -- Above the Law -- The Integration of the Stahlhelmers -- The Nazification of German Academia -- Sacking the State -- Consolidation and Discontent -- 5 THE 'RÖHM PURGE' AND THE MYTH OF THE HOMOSEXUAL NAZI -- Showdown -- 'Reich Murder Week' -- The Myth of the Homosexual Nazi Activist -- Consequences -- PART III -- 6 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SA BETWEEN 1934 AND 1939 -- Searching for New Tasks -- Defining the Limits of Volksgemeinschaft: Antisemitic Violence -- Penetrating German Society -- The Austrian Legion -- Activities in the Sudeten and Memel Territories -- The Rise of the Periphery.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780300196818

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780300196818

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (496 p.) : , 33 b-w illus.

ISBN: 0-300-23125-3

Content: 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. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these "ordinary" men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidation and savagery across the nation from the 1920s to the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934, when Chief of Staff Ernst Röhm and many other SA leaders were assassinated on Hitler's orders. In this deeply researched history, Daniel Siemens explores not only the roots of the SA and its swift decapitation but also its previously unrecognized transformation into a million-member Nazi organization, its activities in German-occupied territories during World War II, and its particular contributions to the Holocaust. The author provides portraits of individual members and their victims and examines their milieu, culture, and ideology. His book tells the long-overdue story of the SA and its devastating impact on German citizens and the fate of their country.

Note: Includes index. , Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , List of Plates -- , Acknowledgements -- , Introduction: A Night of Violence -- , PART I -- , 1. Turmoil in Post- War Germany and the Origins of the Nazi SA -- , 2. Stormtrooper Street Politics: Mobilization in Times of Crisis -- , 3. The Brown Cult of Youth and Violence in the Weimar Republic -- , PART II -- , 4. Terror, Excitement, and Frustration -- , 5. The 'Röhm Purge' and the Myth of the Homosexual Nazi -- , PART III -- , 6. The Transformation of the SA between 1934 and 1939 -- , 7. Streetfighters into Farmers? The Brownshirts and the 'Germanization' of the European East -- , 8. Stormtroopers in the Second World War -- , 9. SA Diplomats and the Holocaust in Southeastern Europe -- , PART IV -- , 10. 'Not Guilty': The Legacy of the SA in Germany after the Second World War -- , Conclusion: Stormtroopers and National Socialism -- , Notes -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-300-19681-4

Language: English

DOI: 10.12987/9780300231250