1/6 Scale DID WW2 German SturmAbteilung SA " Otto Bittman "

This product is for historic education purposesonly, and is not intended to glorify, nor exploit the horrors andatrocities of war.

The history of the Sturmabteilung (SA), often referred to as the "brown shirts", began when the Rollkommando was formed on1920 to protect the meetings held by the Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (DAP).

The SA was formally formed on 4th Nov 1921 following a party meeting when a large number of opponents attempted to disrupt it but was beaten and thrown out by the men of the Turn- und Sportabteilung.

At the end of 1921 there was a conflict between Röhm and Hitler, Röhm wanted to train the SA as an army but Hitler wanted to use it solely for propaganda and intimidating opponents.

Klintzsch left the command of the SA 11 May 1923 to return to Brigade Ehrhardt and was replaced by Hauptmann Hermann Göring. Göring reorganized the SA according to military lines and divided it into standarten, sturmbannen and hundertschaften. AVehrkehrsabteilung was formed in Munich of men with access to or knowledge cars or motorcycles, this would later evolve into the NSKK. An elite guard unit, the Stabswache, was also formed, but it later merged with the Stosstrupp Hitler and later evolved into the SS.

Hitler took the post as Oberster SA-Führer personally on 2nd Sep 1930 and the leader of the SA was now referred to as the Stabschef. Hitler recalled Röhm from Bolivia and he was made Stabschef 5th Jan 1931.

In 1934 the Nacht der langen Messer (night of the long knives) ended with Röhm and other SA leaders carried out by the SS which would take the SA's place as the leading Nazi organization.