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Here is your chance to pick up a unique and hard to find SA fender pennant. Cloth pennants from the SA are more common, but ones in metal are hardly ever seen. The SA utilized vehicle service pennants in a similar was as the Armed Forces. These pennants were flown from the right front fender of the vehicle when an Officer was uniformed and in the vehicle. This metal example is without the frame and recently came out of a well-established collection. The pennant features a red background with a central white circle with a SA runes in black on both sides. This example measures roughly 8-11/16″ tall by about 13″ wide. Overall, a rare item that would be hard to find again. The Sturmabteilung was the Nazi Party’s original paramilitary wing. It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Rotfrontkämpferbund of the Communist Party of Germany, and intimidating Romani, trade unionists, and, especially, Jews. The SA were also called the Brownshirts, from the color of their uniform shirts. 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. After The Night of the Long Knives in 1934, Hitler withdrew support from the SA. The SA continued to exist, but was effectively superseded by the SS, although the paramilitary forces were not formally dissolved until after Nazi Germany’s final capitulation to the Allies in 1945. Free shipping ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD & I don’t charge PayPal fees like some of the other guys!
