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

by Thomas D. Grant

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780415867436
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/09/2013
Series:	Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

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.

Table 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