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- Title
The Myth of the Unknown Storm Trooper: Selling SA Stories in the Third Reich.
- Authors
Wackerfuss, Andrew
- Abstract
In July 1933, an official at Joseph Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry gave an influential speech concerning the “cultural-political tasks of the German press.” The speaker, Wilfrid Bade, was himself an author and journalist who had previously attracted little notice outside Nazi circles. He declared that “a new Germany needs new authors”—an unsurprising sentiment, and one pronounced by the cultural representatives of many new regimes. Bade went on, however, to name a surprising group of candidates for this authorial duty: the storm troopers, members of the Nazi's paramilitary group, the Sturmabteilung (SA), whose violent thuggery had raged through German streets and helped to push the decaying Weimar Republic over the edge.
- Subjects
GERMANY; NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHE Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Sturmabteilung; NAZI propaganda; NATIONAL socialism &; literature; PUBLISHING; LITERARY form; MYTHOLOGY &; politics; GOEBBELS, Joseph, 1897-1945; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Central European History (Cambridge University Press / UK), 2013, Vol 46, Issue 2, p298
- ISSN
0008-9389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0008938913000629