English: Colour plate showing
uniforms for
political leaders (
politischer Leiter) of the paramilitary organized
National Socialist German Workers' Party (German:
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) in
Nazi Germany:
- Service coat for the walking-out dress (Ober-Befehlsleiter)
- Visor cap (Schirmmütze) of tan-coloured webbed fabric, with a traditional high peak and coloured piping along the top of the crown, as well as above and below the cap band (Ortsgruppe: light blue, Kreis: white, Gau: red, Reich: bright lemon yellow), cap band of khaki coloured wool, visor of dark brown vulkanfibre, chin cord of synthetic golden threading.
- Cap insignia consisting of a gilt NSDAP cap eagle (Parteiadler, "Party Eagle"), with a gilt wreath and a separate tri-colour cockade with a black enameled swastika in the center. The eagle is in the shape of a standard Nazi style German imperial eagle (Reichsadler, "National Eagle"), with open wings and a mobile swastika within an oak wreath (see Nazi Germany visor cap insignia guide at Germandaggers.com).
- Long doubled buttoned duty overcoat/ greatcoat (Mantel) with open collar and lapels (double breasted closure)
- Collar patches/tabs (Kragenspiegel) with rank insignia 1939-1945
- Swastika armband (Kampfbinde, Hakenkreuzarmbinde) with rank insignia 1939–1945
- Cap, collar, collar tabs and armband lined with yellow piping indicating the organizational level of Reichsleitung (national leadership)
- Golden buttons decorated with Parteiadler emblem ("Party Eagle", an Art Deco style German Imperial Eagle clutching a swastika)**Nazi Party membership badge
- White shirt, necktie
- Brocade ceremonial belt
- Leather gloves
- Trousers, shoes
- Walking Out Dress with cape (Ortsgruppenleiter and polivtical leaders on special duty)
- NSDAP metal Cape Clasp device
- Red piping on cap for Gauleitung (regional leadership) organizational level
- etc.
Cropped page copied from
Organisationsbuch der NSDAP by
Reichsorganisationsleiter Robert Ley (1890 – 1945) published 1943 ("Herausgeber: Robert Ley"; "7 Auflage: 301-400 Tausend"). Publisher : Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., München. 856 pages. 596 (ie 750) p: ill, maps, ports, plates; 22 cm; German language. Letters in
Fraktur style typefaces.