Episode 141 - Brownies

This week is a break from the main narrative, and I head back to the 20s to cover the development of the SA, as well as touch on the origins of their off-shoots and eventual rivals, the SS. The relationship between Hitler and the Brownshirts would be fraught from almost the get-go, and ironically it would be the their mutual success in the removal of all other threats to the Nazi Party that would open the SA to be purged themselves.    Bibliography for this episode:    Siemens, Daniel Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts Yale University Press 2017 Hohne, Heinz The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS Penguin Books 1969   Questions? Comments? Email me at [email protected]