Siemens, Daniel,

Stormtroopers : a new history of Hitler's Brownshirts / Daniel Siemens. - xli, 459 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-445) and index.

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.

9780300196818 (cloth : alk. paper)

2017943290


Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Sturmabteilung.


Germany--History--1918-1933.
Germany--History--1933-1945.

DD253.7 / .S54 2017

943.086