German 1938 SA Gruppe Southwest Tinnie

Silvered die-stamped zinc badge. Good condition and design. Marked RZM M9/7 for Foerster & Barth Pforzheim with horizontal pin. Measures 37mm in diameter.

The Sturmabteilung (German; SA; lit. ’Storm Division’ or ‘Storm Troopers’) was the original paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party of Germany. It played a significant role in Hitler’s rise to power in the 1920s and early 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 Roter Frontkämpferbund of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and intimidating Romani, trade unionists, and especially Jews.