Leaders of the Storm Troops: Volume 1 Oberster Sa-FüHrer, Sa-Stabschef and Sa-ObergruppenfüHrer (B – J) - Hardcover

Miller, Michael D.; Schulz, Andreas

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ISBN 10: 1909982873 ISBN 13: 9781909982871

Verlag: Helion & Company, 2015

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"This is another outstanding historical collective biographical reference works that we readers have come to expect from this prolific American-German team of Miller and Schulz... I'll go out on a literary limb here and assert that this fine volume will never be surpassed!--The Military Advisor " ... "This is another outstanding historical collective biographical reference works that we readers have come to expect from this prolific American-German team of Miller and Schulz... I'll go out on a literary limb here and assert that this fine volume will never be surpassed!"--The Military Advisor, Winter 2017

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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 Fuhrer 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 interwar Germany, and saw their efforts rewarded by their own leader's betrayal, as he essentially decapitated his SA in favour of its own subordinate formation, Heinrich Himmler's SS, in the `Night of the Long Knives' (30 June -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-Fuhrer.

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• Verlag: Helion & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1909982873
• ISBN 13: 9781909982871
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 650