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English: Colour plate from The German Police, a publication on the Police forces of Nazi Germany, issued by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) and printed in London in April 1945. The book covers the regular, uniformed Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, OrPo), the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei, SiPo) and the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) which were all included in the general term "Police" 1936–1945. It also contains nine plates on OrPo uniforms with illustrations copied from German Police uniform panels 1939.
  • Plate V Sleeve Insignia
    • Sleeve Insignia for generals and officials of equivalent rank (in aluminium for lower ranking officers, except Wasserschutzpolizei)
      • The basic design of the Hoheitsabzeichen (National emblem) of Nazi Germany was a spread imperial eagle (Reichsadler) over a swastika (Hakenkreuz). The police version was a swastika eagle enclosed in a wreath of oak leaves. This wreathed Polizeiadler ("police eagle") was worn as a cap badge and on the left sleeve by all uniformed police.
      • Ärmeladler, sleeve eagle
    • Sleeve Insignia for Wasserschutzpolizei (Material varies according to rank)
    • Sleeve Insignia for senior NCO's of the Gendarmerie (Colour varies for other branches)
      • Marked with Görlitz, a town in the German state of Saxony
    • Armband for officers and inspectors of the Mot. Gendarmerie
      • Motorisierte Gendarmerie (Motorized Rural Police) cuff title (Ärmelstreifen)
      • The Gendarmerie had special motorized emergency units identified by a distinctive cuff title worn by all ranks on the lower left sleeve of the service tunic. It came in an Officer’s version with piping to the top and bottom edges and an EM/NCO’ s version without the edge piping.
      • 'German uniforms of the Third Reich 1933–1945' by B. L. Davis, Blandford Press, 1980: The Motorised Gendarmerie was part of the Gendarmerie proper and was formed in 1936 to cope with the increase of traffic on the main and ordinary roads as well as the national Autobahnen. Their jurisdiction was not limited by geographical divisions. They were organized throughout the Reich into Bereitschaften (Stand-by Squads) containing three or four platoons of men and vehicles each and which formed a mobile reserve available in barracks located at strategic points on the German highway system. Troops of the Motorised Gendarmerie were distinguished by a chocolate brown cuff-title worn on the left sleeve of their tunics and bearing the silver embroidered words Motorisierte Gendarmerie.
    • Armband for senior NCO's of the Mot. Gendarmerie

Police in Nazi Germany

In 1936 the separate German state police forces were restructured into a single national police force divided in two main departments: the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police or Uniformed Police, OrPo) and Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police, SiPo).

OrPo consisted of Schutzpolizei (protection police, SchuPo), Gemeindepolizei (municipal protection police) and Gendarmerie, the state rural police and military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population. The Schutzpolizei included Einzeldienst (Patrol branch ), Kasernierte Polizei (Barracked police), Verkehrspolizei (Traffic police), Wasserschutzpolizei (Water police), Polizei-Reiterstaffeln (mounted troops), Polizei-Nachrichtenstaffeln (police signal squads), etc. SiPo included Gestapo, Nazi Political Police, and Kriminalpolizei, Kripo.

Feldgendarmerie was military field police units of the Wehrmacht.

Ordnungspolizei uniforms

The Ordnungspolizei (OrPo) was also called Grüne Polizei ("green police"); The standard Waffenrock (service tunic) was grey-green with contrasting dark brown collar and cuff facings and had two pleated patch breast pockets and two unpleated skirt pockets.

In addition to the bewildering collar and shoulder rank insignia, all OrPo wore the Polizeiadler ("police eagle"), i.e. a wreathed national eagle with swastika (Reichsadler mit Hakenkreuz), as a cap badge and an arm badge on the upper left sleeve.

The collar patches and shoulderboards on OrPo tunics were backed, and the sleeve eagle (below the rank of Leutnant) was embroidered (except for a black swastika), in the Truppenfarbe, a colour code indicating the branch. Tunics and caps also had piping (Paspelierung) in these branch colours:

From 1942, dual Police and SS ranks were adopted by Police generals, who from then on would wear SS pattern rank insignia, albeit in Police colours.

SiPo personell within Germany wore civilian clothing.

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