Final Pattern SA Uniforms (1934-1945)
A slight alteration to the rank and insignia system of the SA occurred in July 1934, after the Night of the Long Knives when Victor Lutze did away with Röhm's special insignia for the rank of Stabschef and instead adopted a collar patch in the much the same design as that of Reichsführer-SS, a rank which Heinrich Himmler now held.
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