SS and SA Brown Service Shirt

Brown SS and SA Service  shirt

• SS makers label sewn in
• 2 Pleated chest pockets
•  split cuffs with twin buttons
• Epaulet loops 

 The SA have been known in contemporary times as "Brownshirts" from the color of their uniform shirts,  The SA developed pseudo-military titles for its members. The SA ranks were adopted by several other Nazi Party groups, chief amongst them the Schutzstaffel (SS), which originated as a branch of the SA before being separated. Brown-coloured shirts were chosen as the SA uniform because a large batch of them were cheaply available after World War I, having originally been ordered during the war for colonial troops posted to Germany's former African colonies

The SA became disempowered after Adolf Hitler ordered the "blood purge" of 1934. This event became known as the Night of the Long Knives. The SA was effectively superseded by the SS, although it was not formally dissolved and banned until after the Third Reich's final capitulation to the Allied powers in 1945.

The brown Shirt was worn originally by ex members of the SA who had joined the SS to show that he was "an old soldier" and a loyal member of the NSDAP