Description
Here is your chance to pick up a nice example of a Sturmabteilung dagger. Early anodized scabbard has seen better days but is complete with solid nickel fittings. Of the earliest production. The lower cross guard is Gau district marked “Th” on the reverse for the Thürigen region. The blade is just beautiful with cross grain and the motto is really something. The blade has not been sharpened in any way and retains the original tip. Produced by Wilhelm Krieger of Solingen Merscheid with their impressive sickle logo. Overall the photos really do speak for themselves. 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 The SA continued to exist, but was effectively superseded by the SS, although the paramilitary forces were not formally dissolved until after Nazi Germany’s final capitulation to the Allies in 1945.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!
