WW2 GERMAN SA CUFF TITLE 'STABWACHE ROHM'
HISTORY
Ernst Julius Günther Röhm 28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer and an early member of the Nazi Party. As one of the members of its predecessor, the German Workers Party, he was a close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler and a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung (SA, "Storm Battalion"), the Nazi Party's militia, and later was its commander. By 1934, the German Army feared the SA's influence and Hitler had come to see Röhm as a potential rival, so he was executed during the "Night of the Long Knives".
STABWACHE UNITS
Stabwache or Staff Guards were units assigned to provide protection for Hitler and Rohm up until the Night of the Long Knives and the execution of Ernst Rohm, they were taken over by the SS. Sepp Dietrich was given command of the Stabwache units who in turn integrated them and created the SS protection unit Liebstandarte Hitler as a personal bodyguard Battalion for Adolf Hitler.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
This Cuff Title is unissued and pre-dates The Night of the Long Knives in1934 when it was absorbed into Sepp Dietrichs SS Liebstandarte. It is a very rare cuff title.