Stormtroopers and Crisis in the Nazi Movement - Activism, Ideology and Dissolution

Informationen zum Autor Thomas D. Grant is an international lawyer with interests in foreign policy, politics and history. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College and the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Recognition of States (1999) and a forthcoming book on Chechnya. Klappentext Hitler's seizure of power in January 1933! in the eyes of some historians! was the culmination of an unstoppable march. Yet the final months of the Weimar Republic saw the Nazis sliding into ever deeper trouble. In particular! the Sturmabteilung or 'SA' - activist heart of the Nazi movement was showing signs of breakage. This book scrutinizes two sets of hitherto understudied records. SA morale reports in the US National Archive show what Nazi leaders themselves knew about their radical paramilitary wing. Police reports on the stormtroopers! from the former DDR state archive in Potsdam! 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. Zusammenfassung This book casts fresh light on the crisis that beset Nazism during the final months of Germany's first republic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Debating the Machtergreifung 1. The Landscape: Parties Paramilitaries, and the Pitfalls of Weimar Politics 2. July 31, 1932: Apogee? 3. Political Welfare and Cigarettes 4. The Price of Ideology 5. Disintegration or Victory: Nazism in the Final Months of the Republic Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Thomas D. Grant, Grant Thomas D.
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2004
• EAN: 9780415196024
• ISBN: 978-0-415-19602-4
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History; Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Military / General, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Far-right political ideologies and movements, Modern warfare, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General