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Original Item: Only One Available. This is a lovely "Uniform Cut Off" left side 1939-1945 Pattern Kragenspiegel (Collar tab), often called a "Gorget Patch", used to denote rank and district in the SA. This is attached to a collar section from an SA / NSDAP Brown wool uniform, and was made using dunkelbraun (dark brown) felt wool, with gold bullion borders and rank pips. This color scheme indicates use by the SA Gruppe Westmark (Group Western March), which encompassed the area around Saarbrücken, in the extreme West of Germany.
The collar tab has three rank "pips" with no other devices, which indicates the SA rank of SA-Sturmführer (SA-Storm leader), a junior officer rank equivalent to a Heer Army Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant). The tab is in very good condition, showing only light wear, and the three rank pips are all still bright, while the bullion border has oxidized a bit.
A nice piece for any German WWII insignia collection!
The S.A.-
The Sturmabteilung, literally Storm Detachment, was the NSDAP Party's original paramilitary. It played a significant role in Adolf AH's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for NSDAP rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Red Front Fighters League (Rotfrontkämpferbund) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and intimidating Romani, trade unionists, and, especially, Jews – for instance, during the NSDAP boycott of Jewish businesses.
The SA were also called the "Brownshirts" (Braunhemden) from the color of their uniform shirts, similar to Benito Mussolini's blackshirts. The SA developed pseudo-military titles for its members, with ranks that were later adopted by several other NSDAP Party groups, chief amongst them the Schutzstaffel (SS), which originated as a branch of the SA before being separated. Brown-colored shirts were chosen as the SA uniform because a large number of them were cheaply available after World War I, having originally been ordered during the war for colonial troops posted to Germany's former African colonies.
The SA became disempowered after Adolf AH ordered the "blood purge" of 1934. This event became known as the Night of the Long Knives (die Nacht der langen Messer). The SA continued to exist, but was effectively superseded by the SS, although it was not formally dissolved until after NSDAP Germany's final capitulation to the Allies in 1945.
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Details & Craftsmanship
Every detail has been carefully considered to bring you the perfect product.
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Original Item: Only One Available. This is a lovely "Uniform Cut Off" left side 1939-1945 Pattern Kragenspiegel (Collar tab), often called a "Gorget Patch", used to denote rank and district in the SA. This is attached to a collar section from an SA / NSDAP Brown wool uniform, and was made using dunkelbraun (dark brown) felt wool, with gold bullion borders and rank pips. This color scheme indicates use by the SA Gruppe Westmark (Group Western March), which encompassed the area around Saarbrücken, in the extreme West of Germany.
The collar tab has three rank "pips" with no other devices, which indicates the SA rank of SA-Sturmführer (SA-Storm leader), a junior officer rank equivalent to a Heer Army Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant). The tab is in very good condition, showing only light wear, and the three rank pips are all still bright, while the bullion border has oxidized a bit.
A nice piece for any German WWII insignia collection!
The S.A.-
The Sturmabteilung, literally Storm Detachment, was the NSDAP Party's original paramilitary. It played a significant role in Adolf AH's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for NSDAP rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Red Front Fighters League (Rotfrontkämpferbund) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and intimidating Romani, trade unionists, and, especially, Jews – for instance, during the NSDAP boycott of Jewish businesses.
The SA were also called the "Brownshirts" (Braunhemden) from the color of their uniform shirts, similar to Benito Mussolini's blackshirts. The SA developed pseudo-military titles for its members, with ranks that were later adopted by several other NSDAP Party groups, chief amongst them the Schutzstaffel (SS), which originated as a branch of the SA before being separated. Brown-colored shirts were chosen as the SA uniform because a large number of them were cheaply available after World War I, having originally been ordered during the war for colonial troops posted to Germany's former African colonies.
The SA became disempowered after Adolf AH ordered the "blood purge" of 1934. This event became known as the Night of the Long Knives (die Nacht der langen Messer). The SA continued to exist, but was effectively superseded by the SS, although it was not formally dissolved until after NSDAP Germany's final capitulation to the Allies in 1945.
