Stormtrooper families : homosexuality and community in the early Nazi movement / Andrew Wackerfuss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wackerfuss, Andrew, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National socialism and homosexuality.

Violence--Germany--History--20th century.

Violence.

Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Harrington Park Press, 2016.

Summary:

Based on extensive archival work, Stormtrooper Families combines stormtrooper personnel records, Nazi Party autobiographies, published and unpublished memoirs, personal letters, court records, and police-surveillance records to paint a picture of the stormtrooper movement as an organic product of its local community, its web of interpersonal relationships, and its intensely emotional internal struggles. Extensive analysis of Nazi-era media across the political spectrum shows how the public debate over homosexuality proved just as important to political outcomes as did the actual presence of ho

Contents:

Table of Contents ; Introduction ; 1. Fathers and Forefathers; 2. Shattered Sons; 3. Stormtroopers Confront The Criminal; 4. The Battle of Sternschanze; 5. Community and Violence; 6. Bloody Sundays; 7. The SA Takes Power; 8. Long Knives; Epilogue. From Sodom to Gomorrah: Hamburg in Ruins; Acknowledgments; Glossary ; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781939594068

1939594065

OCLC:

947057773