Stormtroopers : a new history of Hitler's Brownshirts /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Siemens, Daniel, author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (xli, 459 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. -- Sturmabteilung. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. -- Sturmabteilung. Germany -- History -- 1918-1933. Germany -- History -- 1933-1945. Germany. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12483357

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ISBN:	9780300231250 0300231253 9780300196818 0300196814
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 11, 2017).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Siemens, Daniel. Stormtroopers. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017] 9780300196818 0300196814
Standard no.:	YBP14262870

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.

Stormtroopers : a new history of Hitler's Brownshirts /

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