Early thin Swastika Storm Flag with 5 different area patches
I was lucky enough to buy a collection of flags (non have been listed yet - as I don’t want to sell atm) and this "early thin" storm flag with 5 patches - on each side!!! This was certainly the cherry.
It appears to have been ripped from the pole
I…….. along with some help from others (wilhelm), have done some research on this one - and it tells quite a story….
Standarte 63 was based in Frankfurt a. Main In 1935, 1936 and possibly earlier 99 (Hattingen) was from the Westfalen-district, brigade 69 from Hagen.
For this reason the traditions patches had to be included according to 1938 (and earlier) regulation……..9 is from the early thirties, but no exact information (list of SA units) is known.
Every Sturmfahne was supposed to be ‘consecrated’ by touching it to the related Deutschland Erwache Standard, which would have been touched to the Blood Flag. So, the Sturmfahnen were not just flags, but were considered to have a direct connection to the Blood Flag, and thus, in a mystical 3rd Reich way, to the martyrs of 9. November 1923. You can see, in period photos, SA Sturmfahnen of various types with earlier or later proportions, variant pole connections, of slightly varying size, with or without fringe, etc. , paraded together during SA and NSDAP events.
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.
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.
