Michael D Miller

In this second volume, Michael Miller and Andreas Schulz continue their exhaustive coverage of the senior leaders of Hitler’s earliest paramilitary army, the Sturmabteilung (SA, Storm Troops), examining the lives and careers of twenty-three individuals who held the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer (from Adolf Heinz Beckerle through Kurt Günther). Although some fell victim to the purge of June/July 1934, most of them continued to serve the Nazi regime in a broad range of assignments until the very end. Here you will find men whose service to the SA was mostly honorary, such as the master of the Nazi legal profession and infamous Generalgouverneur of occupied Poland, Dr. Hans Frank, the head of the Reich Colonial League, General Franz Ritter von Epp, and the infamous gauleiter of Upper Austria, August Eigruber. Others, like Herbert Fust, Kurt Günther, and the historian Dr. Heinrich Bennecke, were entirely committed to their respective SA commands. Drawing on a wealth of official personnel files and other contemporary documentation, Miller and Schulz present a uniquely thorough examination of the SA leadership, superbly illustrated with over 550 photographs.

An unswervingly loyal, highly disciplined militant force is as essential to the establishment and maintenance of a dictatorship as the dictator himself. Many factors contributed to the emergence of the Third Reich, and prominent among them were the actions of Hitler’s earliest paramilitary force, the Sturmabteilungen (SA, Storm Troops), and the men chosen by the Führer to lead it. Although Hitler ultimately culled the SA of its most revolutionary elements, there remained within it and the other party-affiliated organizations a spirit of fanatical, sometimes mindless worship of its supreme leader. This first volume, based on official personnel files and other contemporary documentation, analyzes the lives and careers of the thirteen highest-ranking SA leaders—men who held the ranks of Oberster SA-Führer and SA-Stabschef.

"Reversing Misinformation: How to Help Your Family, Friends & Community" is for people concerned about toxic misinformation and the harm it causes. The book is a guide to show people how to have productive conversations with misinformed family members, friends, and co-workers, as well as people in their community. Better conversations help reduce friction in relationships with misinformed people, decrease the spread of misinformation, increase vaccination rates to improve public health, and promote economic growth and national security." Reversing Misinformation: How to Help Your Family, Friends & Community" provides specific techniques and strategies for how people can reverse and prevent misinformation. The book focuses on practical actions for reversing and preventing misinformation, and also includes insights about how social media and artificial intelligence are influencing the creation and spread of misinformation. As Dr. Miller has stated, "I strongly believe that if we don't act to reverse misinformation and prevent it from spreading in the future, we will be unprepared for future microbial and civil disruption outbreaks." More information about the book is here: https: //www.healthpolcom.com/reversing-misinformation-book/ and reviews of the book may be left here: https: //www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2025/01/12/reversing-misinformation-book/ Publication Date: January 12, 2025

No dictator can effectively govern a nation on his own. This was certainly the case with Adolf Hitler, who had little time for or interest in the day-to-day regional administration of the Nazi Party. For that purpose, he appointed his most loyal, charismatic, and brutal subordinates: The "Little Hitlers", officially known as Gauleiters. In this third volume of a series begun in 2012, Michael Miller and Andreas Schulz present, in meticulous detail, the lives, careers, and crimes of 37 such men. Included are several whose wartime career paths took them outside of their home provinces and led to widespread oppression and terror outside the borders of the Reich. Among these were Fritz Sauckel, who presided over the roundup of millions for slave labor in the Reich, Josef Terboven who oppressed the people of Norway with uncompromising brutality for five years, and Gustav Simon who ruthlessly "Germanized" Luxembourg. Perhaps most notorious of all was Julius Streicher, whose virulent attacks- in writing and at the podium- made him the unofficial face of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany.

How did an Austrian-born misfit who had never risen higher in military service than the rank of lance-corporal attain mastery over Germany and most of Europe? Much of that dubious credit can be attributed to the actions of his earliest paramilitary army, the Sturmabteilungen (SA, Storm Troops), and the men chosen by the Führer to lead it. This series analyses the lives and careers of those men, the first volume covering 49 officers, 35 of whom were, like their leader, veterans of the First World War who had found themselves stunned, bitterly disillusioned, and in many cases unemployed and destitute in the aftermath of that four-year struggle. They eagerly sought the opportunity to return to uniform, battled the enemies of the Nazi Party in the streets of interwar Germany, and saw their efforts rewarded by their own leader’s betrayal, as he essentially decapitated his SA in favour of its own subordinate formation, Heinrich Himmler’s SS, in the ‘Night of the Long Knives’ (30 June –1 July 1934). But the SA did not end with that devastating blow, and despite its loss of prestige and power it was to play an important role in military training and internal security within and outside the borders of the Reich. During World War II, many of its leaders were tasked with administering occupied territories and representing Germany as ambassadors to other Axis nations. Still others, men of all SA ranks, served individually as members of the German armed forces, tens of thousands of them losing their lives on all fronts and many of them receiving the highest awards for bravery and leadership. Relying primarily on contemporary documentation, including the official personnel files of these men, Michael Miller and Andreas Schulz have compiled the first in-depth study yet produced on the SA leadership corps, a series designed to provide as comprehensive a picture as possible of the hauptamtlicher (full-time, actively serving) and ehrenamtlicher (honorary) SA-Führer.