^{This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website}

Germany - Nazi Party Flags 5 (SA)

SturmAbteilung (SA) was founded in 1921 under the name Schutz- und Sportabteilungen. SA was a paramilitary organization created to protect the nazi meetings and disrupt the other parties. The SA grew rapidly in both numbers and power. When the nazis came to power Ernst Röhm demanded that the SA should replace the army. This demand frightened the army and the demanded that Adolf Hitler solve the problem. Hitler didn't want to act against his old friend Röhm but in 1934 the Nacht der langen Messer (Night of the long knives) ended with murder of Röhm and many other leading SA men (and other enemies of Hitler) carried out by the SS which would take SAs place as the leaning nazi organization. Marcus Wendel

For more information on this organisation, see the Third Reich Factbook
Marcus Wendel

51) The Standard of the Storm Troops (Standarte der SturmAbteilung)

by Jaume Ollé
A red vexillum Ratio 5:6. At the center a black upright swastika with a silver-black border in a white disk with a silver border. Above the disk the word "Deutschland" (Germany), below the word "Erwache" (Awake). Surrounded by a silver black-white-red fringe (except at top). Connected by a black-white-red rope to a red rectangle with the name of the Unit (earlier with the letters NSDAP). The top of the staff has an eagle grasping a swastika in a wreath.
Norman Martin

52) Command Flag of the Chief of Staff of the Storm Troops (Kommandoflagge der Stabschef der SA)

by Jaume Ollé

A square red flag with a broad white (inner) and narrow yellow (outer) border. In the red field a white national type eagle (without swastika) with in escutcheon a yellow wreath containing a red disk with the SA monogram in yellow. In each corner of the white border a black upright swastika with a black-white border.
Norman Martin

53) SA Chief of Staff (Stabschef der SA)

by Jaume Ollé

54a) Oberste SA Fuhrung (haumptamschef)

by Jaume Ollé

54b) Oberste SA Fuhrung (Amtschef)

by Jaume Ollé

54c) Gruppe

by Jaume Ollé

54d) Brigade

by Jaume Ollé

54e) Standarte

by Jaume Ollé

54f) Sturmbann

by Jaume Ollé

54k) Sturmfahne eines SA Reitersturmes

by Jaume Ollé

55) The Cavalry Standard of the Stormabteilungen (SturmAbteilung-Reiterstandarte)

by Jaume Ollé

A square red flag with the disk with swastika slightly above the center. Above the disk the letters "Nat.Soz.Deutsche Arbeiterpartei", below the letters "Sturmabteilung" and with small black rectangle in canton.The fringe along the fly and the bottom.
Norman Martin

56) SA Storm Troops (Sturmfahne der SA)

by Jaume Ollé

57) Parteifahne-Sturmfahne (SA sturmfahne)

by Jaume Ollé

Almost all the details of this set of flags are from the 1943 Organisationsbuch der NSDAP, published by the Reichsorganisationsleiter der NSDAP, and "not to be sold in the book trade". I suspect not many copies are around (I picked mine up at the Nazi party headquarters in Munich early in May 1945). Ballantine's Books reprinted the color illustrations in "Nazi Regalia" in 1971 and Imperial Publications reprinted all of the illustrations in black and white in "The NSDAP" in 1990. Also helpful is Brian Davis, Badges of the Third Reich 1933-1945, Blandford Press 1985.