TY - BOOK AU - Siemens,Daniel TI - Stormtroopers: a new history of Hitler's Brownshirts SN - 9780300196818 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - DD253.7 .S54 2017 U1 - 943.086 23 PY - 2017///] CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei KW - Sturmabteilung KW - Germany KW - History KW - 1918-1933 KW - 1933-1945 N1 - 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 ER -