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Stormtrooper families : homosexuality and community in the early Nazi movement

Title
Stormtrooper families : homosexuality and community in the early Nazi movement / Andrew Wackerfuss.
Author
Wackerfuss, Andrew, 1975-
Publication
New York : Harrington Park Press, [2015]
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Description
xxiv, 384 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
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archival work, Stormtrooper Families combines stormtrooper personnel records, Nazi Party autobiographies, published and unpublished memoirs, personal letters, court records, and police-surveillance records to paint a picture of the stormtrooper movement as an organic product of its local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 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. 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. 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 politics--a public controversy still alive today. -- Back cover.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • National socialism and homosexuality
  • Violence > Germany > History > 20th century
  • Social conditions
  • Violence
  • Weltkrieg
  • Homosexualität
  • Nationalsozialismus
  • Faschismus
  • Sturmtruppe
  • Germany > Social conditions > 1933-1945
  • Germany
  • (fast)1900 - 1999
  • (lcsh)National socialism and homosexuality
  • (lcsh)Violence>Germany>History>20th century
  • (fast)National socialism and homosexuality
  • (fast)Social conditions
  • (fast)Violence
  • (lcsh)Germany>Social conditions>1933-1945
  • (fast)Germany
  • (fast)History
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Fathers and forefathers -- Shattered sons -- Stormtroopers confront the criminal -- The battle of sternschanze -- Community and violence -- Bloody sundays -- The SA takes power -- Long knives.
Call Number
JFE 18-377
ISBN
  • 9781939594044
  • 1939594049
  • 9781939594051
  • 1939594057
LCCN
2015008467
OCLC
900031660
Author
Wackerfuss, Andrew, 1975-
Title
Stormtrooper families : homosexuality and community in the early Nazi movement / Andrew Wackerfuss.
Publisher
New York : Harrington Park Press, [2015]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Chronological Term
1900-1999
Indexed Term
(fast)1900 - 1999
(lcsh)National socialism and homosexuality
(lcsh)Violence--Germany--History--20th century
(fast)National socialism and homosexuality
(fast)Social conditions
(fast)Violence
(lcsh)Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945
(fast)Germany
(fast)History
Research Call Number
JFE 18-377
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