Leaders of the Storm Troops: Volume 1 - Oberster SA-Führer,

Leaders of the Storm Troops: Volume 1 - Oberster SA-Führer, SA-Stabschef and SA-Obergruppenführer (B – J)

How did an Austrian-born misfit who had never risen higher in military service than the rank of lance-corporal attain mastery over Germany and most of Europe? Much of that dubious credit can be attributed to the actions of his earliest paramilitary army, the Sturmabteilungen (SA, Storm Troops), and the men chosen by the FÃ¼hrer to lead it. This series analyses the lives and careers of those men, the first volume covering 49 officers, 35 of whom were, like their leader, veterans of the First World War who had found themselves stunned, bitterly disillusioned, and in many cases unemployed and destitute in the aftermath of that four-year struggle. They eagerly sought the opportunity to return to uniform, battled the enemies of the Nazi Party in the streets of inter war Germany, and saw their efforts rewarded by their own leaderâ€™s betrayal, as he essentially decapitated his SA in favor of its own subordinate formation, Heinrich Himmlerâ€™s SS, in the â€˜Night of the Long Knivesâ€™ (30 June â€“1 July 1934). But the SA did not end with that devastating blow, and despite its loss of prestige and power it was to play an important role in military training and internal security within and outside the borders of the Reich. During World War II, many of its leaders were tasked with administering occupied territories and representing Germany as ambassadors to other Axis nations. Still others, men of all SA ranks, served individually as members of the German armed forces, tens of thousands of them losing their lives on all fronts and many of them receiving the highest awards for bravery and leadership. Relying primarily on contemporary documentation, including the official personnel files of these men, Michael Miller and Andreas Schulz have compiled the first in-depth study yet produced on the SA leadership corps, a series designed to provide as comprehensive a picture as possible of the hauptamtlicher (full-time, actively serving) and ehrenamtlicher (honorary) SA-FÃ¼hrer.
Country USA
Brand Helion & Company
Manufacturer Helion and Company
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 450 b/w photos
ReleaseDate 2015-06-19
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781909982871

Country	USA
Brand	Helion & Company
Manufacturer	Helion and Company
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	450 b/w photos
ReleaseDate	2015-06-19
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781909982871

Leaders of the Storm Troops: Volume 1 - Oberster SA-Führer, SA-Stabschef and SA-Obergruppenführer (B – J)

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