ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |8 pages

Preface

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

Debating the Machtergreifung

chapter 1|45 pages

The landscape

Parties, paramilitaries, and the pitfalls of Weimar politics

chapter 2|23 pages

July 31, 1932

Apogee?

chapter 4|22 pages

The price of ideology

chapter 5|19 pages

Disintegration or victory

Nazism in the final months of the Republic

chapter |8 pages

Conclusion