in bringing Hitler to power; nicknamed the Brownshirts (Braunhemden) after their uniforms. The name originated with the Army's special assault battalions of World War I. Sturmbann "storm band" or "band of Stürme" – battalion-sized SA or SS unit. Sturmbannführer "storm band leader" – an SA and SS rank, equivalent to major. Der Stürmer – a weekly anti-Semitic newspaper founded by Julius Streicher known for its lurid semi-pornographic content. Sturmführer "storm leader" – an SA and early SS rank, equivalent to 2nd lieutenant. Sturmgewehr "storm gun" – the StG 44, a model of assault rifle in service from 1942 to 1945, of a class ordinarily designated "Maschinenpistole". Sturmhauptführer "storm chief leader" – an SA and early SS rank, equivalent to captain. Sturmmann "storm trooper" – an SA and SS rank, equivalent to a lance corporal. Sturmscharführer "storm squad leader" – the highest NCO rank in the Waffen-SS, equivalent to (US) sergeant major or (UK) RSM. Sudetenland – the mountainous region lying between Bohemia and Silesia whose people were German speakers. This region of the former Czechoslovakia contained over 3 million "ethnic" Germans. Difficulties in the Sudetenland were used as a pretext for annexation by Hitler shortly in the wake of the Austrian Anschluß of 1938. At the Munich Conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1937–1940) was duped by the Führer and pursued a policy of appeasement which recognized Germany's claims. The British Prime Minister incorrectly believed it would mean, `peace in our time', a statement he embarrassingly made before the British Press. Chamberlain was wrong about the intentions of the Nazis, and the Sudetenland became his greatest gaffe as Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia in 1939, precipitating the Second World War. Swingjugend – "Swing Kids" – young jazz and Swing lovers in 1930s Germany, mainly in Hamburg and Berlin, who rebelled against the regime by gathering in various venues, such as certain dance halls and cafés, to dance the jitterbug to swing music. T Taifun – ("Typhoon"), the code name given to the military assault of Moscow late in 1941. Tausendjähriges Reich – ("Thousand-Year Reich"), name popularly used by the Nazis to refer to the Nazi state. Its millennial connotations suggested that its society would last for a thousand years to come. Theodore Abel papers – a collection of Nazi autobiographies. Theresienstadt – a concentration camp approximately outside of Prague which acquired a reputation for being more "humane" than other