Table of Contents
List of Plates ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: A Night of Violence xiv
Part I
1 Turmoil in Post-War Germany and the Origins of the Nazi SA 3
2 Stormtrooper Street Politics: Mobilization in Times of Crisis 32
3 The Brown Cult of Youth and Violence in the Weimar Republic 75
Part II
4 Terror, Excitement, and Frustration 117
5 The 'Röhm Purge' and the Myth of the Homosexual Nazi 157
Part III
6 The Transformation of the SA between 1934 and 1939 183
7 Streetfighters into Farmers? The Brownshirts and the 'Germanization' of the European East 217
8 Stormtroopers in the Second World War 237
9 SA Diplomats and the Holocaust in Southeastern Europe 280
Part IV
10 'Not Guilty': The Legacy of the SA in Germany after Second World War 307
Concision: Stormtroopers and National Socialism 329
Notes 339
Index 446