The honor dress of the movement : a cultural history of Hitler's brown shirt uniform, 1920-1933 / Torsten Homberger

"During the era of the Weimar Republic, Germany was characterized by deep contradictions and polarizations. New, progressive social mores and artistic developments mixed uneasily with growing reactionary politics. When the 1929 stock market crash produced a severe economic shock, voters began t...

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Main Authors:Homberger, Torsten, 1976-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
Hitler and His Stormtroopers
The Militarization of Political Culture in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
From A Tropical Tunic to the Brown Shirt
The Brown Garment of Honor, Material Culture, and Social Control
Assembling the Troopers, the Logistics of Militarization
The Professionalization of a Civil War Army
Classless Heroes, the Centrality of the Brown Shirt in Mythic Nazi Film and Literature
Hamburg 1921-1933, A Case Study
Weimar Culture and the End of Weimar Democracy