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Here is your chance to pick up something you don’t see everyday. This is a nice SA Regimental Standard with a nice corner patch. Bullion tresse around the corner patch with nice machine embroidered unit information. 4 of the 5 period rings are still present as well as the clip at the top of the edge. Maker tag present by the clip as well. Measures roughly 55″ with the rings and is 44 7/8″ tall. Overall, a fantastic and rare historical artifact from the Third Reich. This particular example came out of the Estate of Robert D. Love who proudly served during the Second World War and returned with this trophy. Bob was a prominent figure in his civil life after the war and even had the downtown Wichita, KS YMCA named in his honor. 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 The SA continued to exist, but was effectively superseded by the SS, although the paramilitary forces were not formally dissolved until after Nazi Germany’s final capitulation to the Allies in 1945.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!
