22. Storm Troops: SA-Obersturmbannf�hrer, 1944, SA Military Training Service Uniform.
23. Storm Troops: SA-Stabschef Viktor Lutze, 1941, White Summer Tunic as Full Dress.
24. Storm Troops: SA-Sturmbannf�hrer, 1940, Service Uniform.
The SA Tunic referred to as the 'SA-WehrmannschaftsDienstrock' and designed to be worn closed at the neck was introduced for use during the war years. It was not a common item and photographic evidence shows it to have been worn only by officers. Members of the Staff of the SA Leadership School which was located in Munich (SA-Reichs-F�hrerschule) wore red collar patches which had the black and white Tyr-rune on the right hand patch and their rank insignia on the left hand patch (No. 22). Pupils at this same school wore the Tyr-rune on both patches. Those persons who had successfully passed through the Munich leadership school to become officers in the SA were permitted to wear on the left upper arm of their SA uniforms the same Tyr-rune emblem (No. 22, 23). Viktor Lutze took over the position of SA Chief-of-Staff shortly after R�hm had been eliminated. Lutze was born at Bevergern, Westphalia, on 28 December 1890. During the 1914-18 war he had served in Infantry Regiment 369 and Reserve Infantry Regiment 15. He joined the Nazi Party in 1922. He was appointed by Hitler to be Police President of Hanover in February 1933 and in March 1934 he was made Prefect of Hanover. Lutze was killed along with his daughter in what was officially described as a 'motoring accident' during the summer of 1943 and the final SA Chief-of-Staff Wilhelm Scheppmann took his place. The white Summer Tunic could be worn as Undress Uniform or, when worn with the 'SA-Feldbinde' the SA officers brocade waist belt, the tunic became Full Dress wear for summer use. The Honour Dagger of the German Army being worn by Lutze in No. 23 was unique within the diverse miscellany of daggers worn by officers of all the varied uniformed organisations. General Field Marshal von Brauchitsch on behalf of the German Army presented it to SA Chief-of-Staff Viktor Lutze on 28 December. For many years after the Second World War this dagger was the centrepiece of a very fine collection of German daggers and edged weapons belonging to an English collector. During the war the SA-Dienstrock or Service Tunic (No. 24) underwent a slight modification. The side pockets to the tunic 'skirt' were produced with pleats and most noticeably, with the simplification of the colouring system used for the collar patches and shoulder straps (see text to No. 16), the shoulder straps were worn in pairs.

25. Storm Troops: SA-Obertruppf�hrer, 1934, Evening Dress.
The SA did not provide its members with a Dress Uniform for formal or informal evening wear in the same way as did the Luftwaffe (No. 130). However the SA did possess a form of eveningwear. It consisted of the standard four-pocket SA tunic worn together with red piped, black trousers, a white shirt and brown tie. Medals were worn on the tunic but no headdress was worn with this attire.

26. Storm Troops: SA-Oberscharf�hrer, SA-Standarte 'Feldhermhalle'. 1936, Greatcoat as Guard Uniform.
Viktor Lutze was appointed SA Chief-of-Staffinluly 1934. One of the first acts he undertook was to raise a special SA unit composed of handpicked volunteers. This elite SA Regiment consisted of six battalions housed in barracks and stationed throughout Germany at Berlin, Munich, Hattingen, Krefeld, Stettin and Stuttgart. This new formation had the distinction of bearing arms and service in the Regiment counted as military service. The Regiment received its title of SA-Standarte 'Feldhermhalle' from Hitler during the Nuremberg Party rally of September 1936. Members of the Regiment were distinguished by wearing a light brown cuff-title bearing the silver wording 'Feldhermhalle' on their left sleeve. All ranks up to and including SA-Obersturmbannf�hrer displayed the Regimental emblem (Wolfsengel) on their carmine red coloured collar patches (right side only). When on duty all ranks wore a special metal gorget (No. 26).

27. Storm Troops: SA-Mann, 1940, Sports Clothing,
This figure, the only one of its kind in this book, has been included in order to represent the sports clothing as used by many of the military and para-military formations in Germany during the Third Reich period. Sports clothing as such can be divided into three categories:a) Track Suits, b) Sports Kit for field events and ball games, c) Swimming suits used for water sports. Most organisations used much the same design for their sports clothing. Only the colour of the articles varied from one organisation to another as did the emblems they carried sewn on to the sports vests, shorts or tracksuits. The German Air Force had the most elaborate system in that they actually indicated grades of proficiency at swimming by the use of different coloured swimming trunks as well as markings on their sports vests to indicate military rank. The SA emblem was displayed on the front of the sports vest in the colour of the wearer's SA district colour (No. 27). The emblem also incorporated, in small lettering, the abbreviated form of the name of that same SA district.

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