of Staff or deputy commander of the Sturmabteilung; effectively the SA commander after 1930. Stabsscharführer "staff squad leader" – a Waffen-SS position (not a rank): the senior NCO in a company, functionally equivalent to a US first sergeant or UK company sergeant major. Staffel "squadron" – the basic formation of the early SA 1925–28. Also used by the Luftwaffe and the cavalry. Staffelführer "squadron leader" – very early SA and SS rank. Also a rank in the NSKK, equivalent to major. Der Stahlhelm "The Steel helmet" – right-wing World War I veterans' organization; merged into the SA in 1933. Standarte – regiment-sized unit of the SA, Allgemeine-SS and Totenkopfverbände. Standartenführer "Standarte leader" – an SA and SS rank, equivalent to colonel. Ständesozialismus – corporative (or "corporate") socialism; promoted by O. W. Wagener, sometime head of the political economy section of the party organization. Stellvertreter des Führers "Deputy of the Führer" – title of the deputy head of the Nazi Party, held by Rudolf Hess until 1941 when he was replaced by Martin Bormann under the new title of Party Chancellor after the former's unauthorized flight to Great Britain. Stennes-Putsch – the revolt in 1930 and again in 1931 by the Berlin SA, commanded by Walter Stennes, in which they attacked and briefly occupied the headquarters of Gauleiter Joseph Goebbels. Stern zum Großkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes, Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross – Germany's ultimate military decoration, a unique honor for the greatest commander in a war. Awarded only twice, to Blücher in 1813 and to Hindenburg in 1918; the Star of 1939 was created but never awarded, and is now at West Point. Stoßtrupp "shock troop" – Hitler's body guard unit before the Hitlerputsch; forerunner to the SS. Strasser wing – named after Gregor Strasser, who led the left wing of the Nazi Party. Stück – "sticks" or pieces, items. The term could mean sticks of firewood or pieces of bread or cake. In the Nazi era, a Sprachregelung term for Jews and other "undesirables" meant to dehumanize such people. Example: "1000 Stück Juden in den Osten deportiert" ("1000 Jewish pieces deported to the east") – not meaning items of personal property of Jewish ownership, but rather referring to the Jews themselves as "pieces". Sturm – company-sized SA or SS unit. Sturmabteilung (SA) "Storm Detachment" or "Battalion" – the Stormtroopers, a Nazi paramilitary organisation that was instrumental