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Stormtrooper Families: Homosexuality and Community in the Early Nazi Movement Paperback – August 18, 2015

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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archival work, Stormtrooper Families combines stormtrooper personnel records, Nazi Party autobiographies, published and unpublished memoirs, personal letters, court records, and police-surveillance records to paint a picture of the stormtrooper movement as an organic product of its local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.
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Detailed, well informed, and highly readable―an 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. -- Daniel Siemens, University College London

A fascinating picture of the private lives of the SA, both as individuals and in their close-knit groups. Many studies concentrate on the SA leadership and its trials and tribulations, but Wackerfuss shines a light on individual units, which were by no means a united front but sometimes fraught with infighting. Beyond that, he peers into the life and minds of individual SA men to see what motivated them to join this violent organization and how it became instrumental in winning support for Adolf Hitler. -- Geoffrey Giles, University of Florida

Stormtrooper Families is a much needed addition to the vast collection of books on the Third Reich and its history. ― 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. -- Karl Wolff ― New York Journal of Books

It is a rare achievement indeed to tell us something new about Nazism. Through its in-depth exploration of 'everyday' life within Hamburg's Sturmabteiling (SA), the Nazi Party's paramilitary group, Andrew Wackerfuss' rich and readable book does just that. -- Victoria Harris ― Times Higher Education

A fascinating study of a history that many textbooks have ignored. -- Darrell Scheidegger Jr. ― Outword

A fascinating, well-researched and well-written book, this one is a keeper. -- Angel Curtis ― OutSmart

A very readable history of the Sturmabteilung (SA), or stormtroopers, one of the earliest wings of Nazism.... Highly recommended. ― Choice

Wackerfuss brings a very perceptive eye to his subject.... Academic readers will find his contribution to our knowledge of the SA, and especially his perceptive analysis of the psychology of some of its members, immensely useful, while more casual readers will surely find his account, quite simply, very enjoyable to read. -- Alex Burkhardt ― H-German

Wackerfuss provides a welcome addition to our understanding of the early SA movement, and a thoughtful commentary on postwar notions of Nazi sexuality and homoeroticism. -- Tiia Sahrakorpi ― German History

Stormtrooper Families reveals intimate details about the lives of the men who served in the famously cliquish, violent, and chaotic German military unit known as Sturmabteilung (a.k.a. "SA" or "Stormtroopers"). -- Jacob Anderson-Minshall ― The Advocate

A very readable book that offers a window on daily life in the SA as well as a provocative argument about homosexuality and Nazism. -- Laurie Marhoefer ― American Historical Review

About the Author

Andrew Wackerfuss is a historian with the United States Air Force and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1939594057
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harrington Park Press, LLC; Illustrated edition (August 18, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781939594051
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1939594051
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 1 x 8 inches
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Clayton J. Whisnant
5.0 out of 5 stars Life of the Everyday Stormtrooper
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2015
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 book will offer a range of fascinating stories about what it was like to be an average stormtrooper: their motivations, political views, and everyday activities.
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Michael White
4.0 out of 5 stars As a casual student of Nazi Germany, this book ...
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2016
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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 Homosexuals as scapegoats for a variety of reasons. This book helped me broaden my understanding of Germany and the rise of Hitler.
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Bradley Wood
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2015
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BORING!!
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Linda B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Much-needed addition to SA histories
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2015
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!
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fishface42
3.0 out of 5 stars Wackerfuss is no Ian Kershaw
Reviewed in Canada on May 7, 2016
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Three stars means "it's okay" and that represents my tepid response to what could have been an important supplement to Kershaw's "Hitler" biography and "The End" (being the downfall of the Third Reich). This book demonstrates the pivotal importance of the brownshirts in the Nazis' rise to power as well as their comparatively redundant continuance to 1945. They and their leadership almost became a state within the state and after Hitler's ascendance a continuing threat to public order and hence a liability in public relations. Homosexuality is not as large a part of this history as the title might suggest and those seeking the titillation of Visconti's film "The Damned" or the Canadian movie "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS" will (like me) be disappointed. Wackerfuss carefully distinguishes three states--homosexuality, homoeroticism, and homosociety--at play in stormtrooper bonding, with sexual acting out as the least pervasive. The historian produces huge amounts of research with many personal anecdotes and examples from letters, diaries and stormtrooper publications. But these latter fail to enliven the material so that the one-word review on Amazon.com--"Boring"--hits the nail on the head. The author has centered his history on Hamburg and his exposition of, and intermittent return to, Hamburg's long and noble history is too arcane and detailed for this casual reader. It will interest students of the period. To me, the book lacks the stylistic finesse of Ian Kershaw's three volume history of Hitler (which includes a lot more concurrent German history than its title suggests). The final descriptions of post-war fascination with and exploitation of alleged Stormtrooper events goes on too long, outside the announced scope of the title.
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