Stormtroopers: a new history of Hitler's Brownshirts

Introduction: a night of violence

Turmoil in post-war Germany and the origins of the Nazi SA

Stormtrooper street politics: mobilization in times of crisis

The brown cult of youth and violence in the Weimar Republic

Terror, excitement, and frustration

The "Röhm purge" and the myth of the homosexual Nazi

The transformation of the SA between 1934 and 1939

Streetfighters into farmers? The brownshirts and the "Germanization" of the European east

Stormtroopers in the Second World War

SA diplomats and the Holocaust in Southeastern Europe

"Not guilty": the legacy of the SA in Germany after the Second World War

Conclusion: the SA and National Socialism.