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
