Talk:Uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung

Rank articles complete
I'm pleased to announce that the ranks in this article now have links to associated articles on every rank of the SA. -Husnock 30Jan05
 * The page lists a rank's Army equivalent, but what was its SS equivalent. There is the page "Comparative military ranks of World War II", which lists German Army, Navy, Air Force, and Waffen SS, but does not show how these relate to SA ranks, or for ezapmle the "Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party". Would it be possible to create a page devoted solely to comparative ranks of the services of the Third Reich ?. - Matthew238 02:16, 26 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Is the "Army equivalent" column supposed to reflect the Heer, or US/UK equivalents? either way, then the general-officer ranks are a step off due to Oberfuhrer. Solicitr (talk) 23:22, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Ranks of Sturmbannführer and Obersturmbannführer
According to an article on the Flags of the World website (the URL is ), a Sturmbann was a battalion in the S.A. Hence, perhaps it would be more appropriate to translate the names of these ranks into English as "Battalion Leader" and "Senior Battalion Leader". -Christopher Crossley, 12.07 (UTC), 22 August 2005
 * Please see: Talk:Ranks and insignia of the Schutzstaffel for the answer to that question. -Husnock 15:43, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

SA, SS, and Waffen SS
Where the ranks of the SA, SS, and Waffen SS essentially the same?


 * see also http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS-Ranggef%C3%BCge (but it's not complete)--92.117.91.68 (talk) 01:00, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Insignia Pictures
Most of the pictures appear to have gutted from this article. I would like to start a project to get back. Suggestion on how to do this? -OberRanks (talk) 22:54, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Rank equivalents
General-officer ranks in the Wehrmacht Heer were one notch lower than the cognate-named US/UK ranks. When the Bundeswehr was formed they kicked them each up a level, creating the new rank Brigadegeneral and retiring Generaloberst to bring the structure into line with NATO.--Solicitr (talk) 20:34, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Completely agree. One point of confusion revolves around that the SA had no equivalent to Oberstgruppenfuhrer.  I updated the chart to reflect this.  Also, within a week or two I should have an actual insignia chart for the final post 1934 rank insignia patches. -OberRanks (talk) 21:03, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Merge notice
The article appears to be a duplicate of Uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung. We should merge. -OberRanks (talk) 21:09, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

SA headgear
It was no képi. Making and outlook is different, as can be seen. The German term for this type of headgear is Schaftmütze --2001:A61:2B09:B901:6830:5A63:8FA5:8EDE (talk) 10:04, 8 February 2020 (UTC)