Stormtroopers
A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts
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Roger Clark
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Daniel Siemens
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Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these "ordinary" men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidation and savagery across the nation from the 1920s to the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934, when Chief of Staff Ernst Röhm and many other SA leaders were assassinated on Hitler's orders.
In this deeply researched history, Daniel Siemens explores not only the roots of the SA and its swift decapitation but also its previously unrecognized transformation into a million-member Nazi organization, its activities in German-occupied territories during World War II, and its particular contributions to the Holocaust. The author provides portraits of individual members and their victims and examines their milieu, culture, and ideology. His book tells the long-overdue story of the SA and its devastating impact on German citizens and the fate of their country.
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In Becoming Hitler, award-winning historian Thomas Weber examines Adolf Hitler's time in Munich between 1918 and 1926, the years when Hitler shed his awkward, feckless persona and transformed himself into a savvy opportunistic political operator who saw himself as Germany's messiah. The story of Hitler's transformation is one of a fateful match between man and city. After opportunistically fluctuating between the ideas of the left and the right, Hitler emerged as an astonishingly flexible leader of Munich's right-wing movement.
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talented malevolence c a dash of amazing luck
- By emilio squillante on 11-05-18
By: Thomas Weber
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Army of Evil
- A History of the SS
- By: Adrian Weale
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In Nazi Germany, they were called the Schutzstaffel. The world would know them as the dreaded SS - the most loyal and ruthless enforcers of the Third Reich...It began as a small squad of political thugs. Yet by the end of 1935, the SS had taken control of all police and internal security duties in Germany - ranging from local village "gendarmes" all they way up to the secret political police and the Gestapo.
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Got lost in the details.
- By Alan on 11-28-12
By: Adrian Weale
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Hitler's Europe Ablaze
- Occupation, Resistance, and Rebellion during World War II
- By: Ben H. Shepherd - editor, Phillip Cooke - editor
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Local resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred throughout the European continent during World War II, taking a wide range of forms - noncooperation and disinformation, sabotage and espionage, and armed opposition and full-scale partisan warfare. It is a key element in the experience and the national memory of those who found themselves under Axis government and control.
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Historically questionable.
- By Nestor Perez on 04-22-21
By: Ben H. Shepherd - editor, and others
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Iron Curtain
- The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 26 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete.
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Important story, imperfectly executed
- By jackifus on 12-08-12
By: Anne Applebaum
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The Partition of Ireland and the Troubles: The History of Northern Ireland from the Irish Civil War to the Good Friday Agreement
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Partition of Ireland and the Troubles: The History of Northern Ireland from the Irish Civil War to the Good Friday Agreement analyzes the tumultuous events that marked the creation of Northern Ireland, and the conflicts fueled by the partition. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Northern Ireland like never before.
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The Partition and the Troubles, slightly biased
- By J. Dalton on 05-19-19
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Russia in Flames
- War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921
- By: Laura Engelstein
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 31 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr put it decades ago, these earth-shaking days were a "landmark in the emancipation of mankind from past oppression" or "a crime and a disaster."
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Solid overview of events
- By Anonymous User on 06-27-19
By: Laura Engelstein
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Modern Times
- The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
- By: Paul Johnson
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 37 hrs and 53 mins
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Beginning with May 29, 1919, when photographs of the solar eclipse confirmed the truth of Einstein's theory of relativity, Johnson goes on to describe Freudianism, the establishment of the first Marxist state, the chaos of "Old Europe", the Arcadian 20s, and the new forces in China and Japan. Also discussed are Karl Marx, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Roosevelt, Gandhi, Castro, Kennedy, Nixon, the '29 crash, the Great Depression, Roosevelt's New Deal, and the massive conflict of World War II.
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The Anti-Howard Zinn
- By Pork C. Fish on 05-22-12
By: Paul Johnson
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Russia in Revolution
- An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
- By: S. A. Smith
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the 20th century. Historian S. A. Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the 19th century, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1917 and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, to the end of the 1920s.
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Excellent centenary look at the complete revolutio
- By Privet on 09-13-18
By: S. A. Smith
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The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
- The Political Economy of Human Rights - Volume I
- By: Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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A brilliant, shattering, and convincing account of United States-backed suppression of political and human rights in the Third World... It relentlessly dissects the official views of Establishment scholars and their journals. The "best and brightest" pundits of the status quo emerge from this audiobook thoroughly denuded of their credibility.
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must listen
- By Amazon Customer on 09-14-20
By: Noam Chomsky, and others
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Making the Arab World
- Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
- By: Fawaz A. Gerges
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
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In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood - and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody events echoed an older political rift: the splitting of nationalists and Islamists during the rule of Egyptian president and Arab nationalist leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region.
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Why didn’t anyone tell the narrator he was mispronouncing the name of the guy the book was about?
- By Amazon Customer on 05-03-23
By: Fawaz A. Gerges
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Hitler and the Holocaust [Modern Library Chronicles]
- By: Robert S. Wistrich
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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For over 50 years scholars and philosophers alike have attempted to make some sense of the Third Reich and its "Final Solution" campaign. Historian Robert Wistrich takes listeners on a guided tour through the death camps and meticulously details the events that led to this horrific tragedy and the lasting repercussions it had on the world community.
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Subperb and profound
- By John on 08-08-05
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- Chris Hummel
- 06-08-23
Well-Rounded Discussion
A thorough discussion of the history of the SA, that seeks to carry the story past the Rohm Purge/Night of the Long Knives. The author shows that, while SA influence clearly peaked in 1933-34, it continued to play various and changing roles right through the end of the regime in 1945. These included everything from a training ground for Wehrmacht soldiers (and providing at least 1 SA regiment), to policing functions in occupied territories, to air raid clean ups, to acting as "Aryan" settlers in eastern Europe (though many of these goals were limited or frustrated, especially by the SS). Most effectively, the author demonstrates that the lenient approach to the SA at Nuremberg and subsequent picture of it as a largely ineffective, yet patriotic group has both glossed over SA crimes within and outside Germany and led to their post 1934 history largely being ignored. As such, this work makes a solid contribution to the historiography of the SA in general and its broader role in the Third Reich.
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- boookeee
- 05-03-24
A gripping narrative with all the "receipts"--and key lessons for how to prevent coups in 2024+
This compelling history offers many keys to understanding the multifaceted appeal and complex, sometimes self contradictory organization of coup plotting organizations and their fascist paramilitary enforcers (SA, Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys now back in view at Trump rallies). As of 2024, potential coups in the U.S., Brazil, and European countries are foreseeable and may be preventable. January 6, etc. gave a preview—and raised many questions about how fascists gather momentum and how to stop or divert them. This book provides a variety of answers for those concerned about how a country with many good, liberal, democratic values can go bad quickly.
It also helps explain how the violence-prone political factions of far right and far left feed off of each other--not only by creating a villain to unite against, but by actually drawing from some of the same people: The Nazis and SA, for brief periods, accepted ideological diversity and even included enclaves that promoted straightforward socialist policies & ideologies. This temporary big tent helped openly racist reactionaries appeal to certain perpetually frustrated and/or financially needy members of the far-left. This would not last--but would prevail long enough to advance Nazis into national leadership.
Siemens also offers nuances helpful for evaluating today's democracy-minded politicians. For example, even some anti-fascist Social Democrats idealized physically strong young men as the reshapers of a newly powerful nation, in phrases that could be "hard to distinguish" from Nazi/fascist slogans.
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- brian
- 11-17-17
Some history I knew, with more added.
An impressive and well researched book about the SA, a group in Nazi Germany not that well known.
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- Thomas Roth
- 04-19-23
Well done.
I liked this book, but would have had a less excitable reader. Lots of good information.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-26-24
a true eye opener
rare to listen to a story that sincerely alters my views on an organization I thought was basically irrelevant after 1934. well done.
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- AudioFile
- 10-21-19
Tedious
It appears that the bulk of the book is taken up by using Nazi acronyms and then giving the long winded translation. After a chapter or so, I got tired of listening. It's like spending a day reading the ingredients labels on every cereal packet at the supermarket.
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