Original Item: Only One Available. This is an original German WWII painted steel advertising sign for Der SA-Mann, the official newspaper of the SA, or Sturmabteilung. Measuring approximately 6 1/4" x 15 1/4", it features a vivid orange background, a German national eagle in the upper left corner, and bold stylized newspaper advertising text.

The front reads:

der SA-Mann
Die Zeitung der braunen Armee

This translates approximately as:

The SA Man
The Newspaper of the Brown Army

Der SA-Mann served as an official publication associated with the SA and carried political articles, organizational material, propaganda, and content directed toward SA members and supporters. Signs of this type would have been used to advertise newspaper sales or identify a point of distribution.

The sign is constructed from painted sheet steel. The orange field and printed design remain clearly visible, with expected light surface wear from age and storage.

Several areas of aged paper remain adhered to the front, particularly near the corners. This paper is consistent with protective sheets placed between stacked signs to prevent their painted surfaces from rubbing against one another during storage and transport.

The remaining paper residue, together with the limited display wear, suggests that the sign may never have been installed or may have seen only minimal use. No definitive provenance accompanies it, so it is best described as apparently unused rather than conclusively unissued.

The front shows scattered storage wear, minor abrasions, and age related surface marks. The reverse has oxidation concentrated around the corners and edges where the steel was more exposed.

With its compact 6 1/4" x 15 1/4" dimensions, bright orange painted field, original Der SA-Mann advertising text, national eagle graphic, and surviving protective paper residue, this is a visually distinctive example of German WWII political advertising material. The paper adhesion, surface wear, abrasions, and reverse oxidation are fully disclosed. It would display particularly well in an SA organization, German newspaper, political propaganda, period advertising sign, or WWII home front collection.

The S.A.-
The Sturmabteilung, literally Storm Detachment, was the NSDAP Party's original paramilitary. It played a significant role in Adolf AH's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for NSDAP rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Red Front Fighters League (Rotfrontkämpferbund) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and intimidating Romani, trade unionists, and, especially, Jews – for instance, during the NSDAP boycott of Jewish businesses.

The SA were also called the "Brownshirts" (Braunhemden) from the color of their uniform shirts, similar to Benito Mussolini's blackshirts. The SA developed pseudo-military titles for its members, with ranks that were later adopted by several other NSDAP Party groups, chief amongst them the Schutzstaffel (SS), which originated as a branch of the SA before being separated. Brown-colored shirts were chosen as the SA uniform because a large number 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 AH ordered the "blood purge" of 1934. This event became known as the Night of the Long Knives (die Nacht der langen Messer). The SA continued to exist, but was effectively superseded by the SS, although it was not formally dissolved until after NSDAP Germany's final capitulation to the Allies in 1945.