Hitler's Stormtroopers And The Attack On The German Republic, 1919-1933

by Mitchell, Otis C.

• ISBN13: 9780786439126
• ISBN10: 0786439122
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-09
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing

Summary

Hitler was Nazi Germany and Nazi Germany was Hitler. Though true to the extent that Hitler's personality, leadership, and ideological convictions played a massive role in shaping the nature of government and life during the Third Reich, this popular view has led many writers since the end of World War II to overlook important aspects of Nazism while centering attention solely on Hitler's contributions to the Nazi Party. This book seeks to ?ll a signi?cant gap in the literature by concentrating particularly on the Nazi Party and its growth during the years of the Weimar Republic, examining the paramilitary presence in Germany and Bavaria after World War I. Most of the book describes the development of the Nazi Storm Detachment (Sturmabteilung, or SA) before and after the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. By the time Hitler came to power in January 1933, there were perhaps as many as 400,000 of these brown-shirted men, often self-styled revolutionaries, creating violence on a daily basis and destroying the underpinnings of the Weimar Republic. The book features several photographs captured from the Nazi Party's Central Publishing Facility in Munich and passed to the author in the late 1950s.

Author Biography

Otis C. Mitchell is professor emeritus of history at the University of Cincinnati. He divides his time between Florida and Ohio.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Origins and Inspirations: Prewar Imperial Germany	p. 3
The Weimar Republic Rises Among the Ruins	p. 12
The Appearance of Hitler	p. 29
The Munich Matrix of Right Radicalism	p. 38
The Infancy of Nazism (1919-1923)	p. 46
The Bavarian Paramilitary Scene (1919-1923)	p. 57
The Failed Putsch	p. 72
The Years of Preparation (1924-1930)	p. 83
The Reichstag Elections of 1930 and the SA	p. 96
Battleground Berlin (1925-1933)	p. 106
The Shape and Meaning of the Depression SA	p. 117
Nazism into Power	p. 139
Epilogue (1933-1934)	p. 154
Chapter Notes	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 189
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