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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas D Grant, Thomas D. Grant, Grant Thomas D.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2013
• EAN: 9780415867436
• ISBN: 978-0-415-86743-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 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