German SA EM/NCO Brass Belt Buckle

 Measures 65mm by 48mm, slightly convex, stamped brass, two-piece construction buckle. The eagle’s head falls on the inside of a ribbed border with simulated twisted rope trim to its inner and outer edges. The center insert measures 42mm in outside diameter, has a spray of oak leaves to its base, with the eagle’s wings extending into it at the top, it is silvered. To the reverse is its raised buckle catch, and a prong bar with dual prongs, for the belt’s retaining tongue. Unmarked.

The Sturmabteilung (German: SA; lit. ’Storm Division’ or ‘Storm Troopers’) was the original paramilitary organisation 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.