The modern brownshirts in all their glory

[Pio1980]

I could recommend this book for those interested in the role of the brownshirts in every day life during the the Nazi takeover.
In the Garden of Beasts.
Erik Larson.
"Berlin, 1933. William E. Dodd is a mild-mannered academic from Chicago who becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany. This book tells the true stroy of love, intrigue and emerging terror at the American embassy in Berlin during the tumultuous 12 months that witnessed Hitler's rise to power."