Original Items: Very Few Available. We have just acquired a small number of these 11" × 23 ¼" advertising posters for the SA Sturmabteilung organization's official newspaper: Der SA-Mann (The SA-Mann / Stormtrooper). The poster shows a Wehrmacht Heer Army soldier standing holding his k98K rifle in front on the ground, with his feet on the map of "Greater Germany" of 1939. Behind him is a large eagle, and we can see some awards on his uniform, as well as a gorget around his neck, which looks to be for the Feldgendarmerie. The eagle on his right chest however is a Luftwaffe style, so it is most likely that the artist was not a member of the military. The poster image is signed in the upper right, however we cannot read it.

 Towards the bottom is a clear message in red print:

Der SA-Mann
Dein Kamerad im
Kleinkrieg des Alltags
Das Blatt für jeden Deutschen
Jeden Freitag neu! Einzelpreis 15 Pfg.

This roughly translates to:

The SA man
Your comrade in
The petty war of everyday life
The paper for every German
New every Friday! Single price 15 Pfg.

 Overall condition of the posters is very good, though they do show staining and age toning. All are folded in half, and at one time may have been folded into quarters.

Very interesting and ready to add to your collection!

The S.A.-
The Sturmabteilung, literally Storm Detachment, was the NSDAP Party's original paramilitary. It played a significant role in Adolf AH's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for NSDAP rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Red Front Fighters League (Rotfrontkämpferbund) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and intimidating Romani, trade unionists, and, especially, Jews – for instance, during the NSDAP boycott of Jewish businesses.

The SA were also called the "Brownshirts" (Braunhemden) from the color of their uniform shirts, similar to Benito Mussolini's blackshirts. The SA developed pseudo-military titles for its members, with ranks that were later adopted by several other NSDAP Party groups, chief amongst them the Schutzstaffel (SS), which originated as a branch of the SA before being separated. 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.

The SA became disempowered after Adolf AH ordered the "blood purge" of 1934. This event became known as the Night of the Long Knives (die Nacht der langen Messer). The SA continued to exist, but was effectively superseded by the SS, although it was not formally dissolved until after NSDAP Germany's final capitulation to the Allies in 1945.