SA Sturmfahne Concentration Camp and Holocaust related

A rare, early, thin armed swastika flag from SA Sturm 22 of Standarte 63 from Frankfurt am Main, SA Group Hessia.

Along with SA Standarte 81, St 63 was responsible for south Hessia’s first concentration camp that opened in May 1933 in an old factory, the so-called "Perlenfabrik" in FFM-Ginnheim. The camp became known for the torture and cruelty of the SA men who mistreated the prisoners, mostly communists and union members, who were initially incarcerated there. Eventually, the camp got so crowded that it was necessary to open others in the Frankfurt area to accomodate the overflow.

Der Ort des Terrors: Geschichte der … - Google Books

Later, in October 1941, SA Standarte 63 was given the task of rounding up Jewish residents of Frankfurt’s Westend district for deportation. The special action turned into confusion when the Gestapo didn’t show up in time to seal the apartments of the evicted Jews and move the people to collection points. Subsequently, the hundreds of Jews were marched through the city.

Here’s an official SA report on that action:

Frankfurt 1933-1945

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