Stormtrooper Families: Homosexuality and Community in the Early Nazi Movement
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (710 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1939594057 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Choice) . (Books by Meri)Stormtrooper Families offers a much-needed historical reckoning bringing lucid scholarship to a neglected area in the history of the Nazi regime. Highly recommended. Detailed, well informed, and highly readablean important and most welcome contribution to the still relatively small number of SA histories, and Wackerfuss has undertaken a huge amount of research into local primary sources. (Victoria Harris Times Higher Education)A fascinating study of a history that many textbooks have ignored. Outword)A fascinating, well-r
Andrew Wackerfuss is a historian with the United States Air Force and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Stormtrooper Families chronicles the stormtroopers' personal, political, and sexual struggles to explain not only how individual gay men existed within the Nazi movement but also how the public meaning of homosexuality affected fascist and antifascist politicsa public controversy still alive today.. 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 homosexuals in fascist and antifascist politics.As children in the late-imperial period, the stormtroopers witnessed the first German debates over homosexuality and political life. 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archival work, Stormtrooper Families combines stormtrooper personnel records, Nazi Party autobiographies, published and unpublished memoirs, personal letters, court records, and police-surveillance records to paint a picture of the stormtrooper movement as an organic product of its local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. As young adults, they verbally and physically battled over these definitions, bringing conflicts over homosexuality and masculinity into the center of Weimar Germany's most important political debates
As a casual student of Nazi Germany, this book As a casual student of Nazi Germany, this book filled in a number gaps in my knowledge and helped me contrast and compare the current political situation in the USA. Though we currently have many people feeling disenfranchised, both young and old, the differences between Germany in the 30's is very different. The homosexuality aspect of the SA seemed to me no different than many organization past and present. Homosexuals have been present in every society since the beginning of time. Nazi Germany, as with many in our society use Homosexu. Linda B. said Much-needed addition to SA histories. Stormtrooper Families manages to shed new light on the SA subculture. It is a unique look at a specific yet fairly unknown side of history. Wackerfuss’ approach to looking at the inner makings of the SA and their well organized yet separate and often tension ridden units is well researched and well written!. Clayton J. Whisnant said Life of the Everyday Stormtrooper. There are few topics written so much about as Nazism, and so it hard to write a book that really tells you anything truly new about this topic. This book accomplishes this rare feat by getting deep inside the SA subculture. Wackerfuss's book reveals deep tensions that existed within the Nazi stormtrooper communities, especially between antisocial violence and community support and between family life and homosocial bonding. For anyone interested in getting beyond the stories of Ernst Roehm and the rest of the group's leadership, this boo