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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806208803321

Autore

Grant Thomas D. <1969->

Titolo

Stormtroopers and crisis in the Nazi movement : activism, ideology and dissolution / / Thomas D. Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

0-415-86743-6

1-134-64502-3

1-280-07586-4

0-203-64488-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge Studies in Modern European History

Disciplina

943.085

Soggetti

National socialism

Germany Politics and government 1918-1933

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Stormtroopers and Crisis in the Nazi Movement; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: debating the Machtergreifung; 1 The landscape: parties, paramilitaries, and the pitfalls of Weimar politics; The parties and the struggle for allegiance; The politics of the street and its practitioners; 2 July 31, 1932: apogee?; 3 Political warfare and cigarettes; Pitfalls of paramilitarism; Fundraising and cigarettes; 4 The price of ideology; National Socialist cigarettes?; Politicians and stormtroopers; 5 Disintegration or victory: Nazism in the final months of the Republic; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Containing illustrations from archival material, this book scrutinizes two sets of hitherto understudied records:* SA morale reports in the US National Archive which show what Nazi leaders themselves knew about their radical paramilitary wing* police reports on the stormtroopers, from the former DDR state archive in Potsdam which show what Republican authorities knew.Stormtroopers and Crisis in the Nazi Movement casts fresh light on the crisis that beset Nazism during the final months of Germany's first republic.