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English: Illustration plate from the official Nazi Party handbook 1936, showing flags, emblems, signs, badges, ranks, insignia, uniforms, etc.:

Uniforms of the NSKK Navy units

• Sturmführer ("assault leader") in the NSKK waterway fleet in Ceremonial Dress (full dress/parade uniform)
  • Visor cap (Schirmmütze für Angehörige der NSKK-Motorboot-Einheiten, marineblaues Tuch mit Besatzstreifen)
  • Tunic (Waffenrock): Open lapel cut, single-breasted service jacket, with front closure, two side pocketsand turned up cuffs. Sailors of the NSKK waterway fleet and Transportflotte Speer wore a dark blue uniform based on that of the military seamen in the Kriegsmarine|.
  • Rectangular collar patches/tabs (Kragenspiegel); the right showing the number, type and locality of unit, the left containing rank insignia. See SA collar tab and shoulder board identification guide at GermanDaggers.com.
  • Shoulder strap on right shoulder
  • NSKK qualified driver's badge (NSKK-Kraftfahrraute): On black backing in white a wheel with six visible spokes, over the centre of which is superimposed a German eagle, looking right, clutching a circular wreath enclosing a swastika (the Party Eagle, Parteiadler, the stylised German imperial eagle during Nazi rule with its head turned to its left wing). The Raute emblem was worn as a diamond shaped cloth sleeve badge on the left forearm of the tunics of those NSKK personel who were qualified drivers.
  • Nazi Party swastika armband/brassard (Hakenkreuzarmbinde, Kampfbinde) fitted around the left arm and tacked on with thread
  • Brown shirt and black necktie
  • Nazi Party membership badge on tie
  • Belt with double claw open buckle and crossbelt
  • Marine NSKK dagger with scabbard and hanging strap (Dienstdolch M 36 für Angehörige der NSKK-Motorbootstandarten). See "Dagger Guide" at Germandaggers.com.
  • Brown gloves
• Scharführer in the NSKK waterway fleet in Ceremonial Dress (full dress uniform) with greatcoat

etc.

The National Socialist Motor Corps (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps,NSKK), was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party in Germany from 1931 until 1945. The NSKK members trained in the operation and maintenance of automobiles, trucks and motorcycles. They soon became involved with training recruits for the German Army's armoured and motorised arms and during World War II NSKK augmented Army and Air Force transport assets. From 1944 it became a dedicated transport corps, but was disbanded with the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945.

The rank system and insignia of the NSSK were based closely on those of the SA (Sturmabteilung), of which the NSKK was originally a part. The NSKK members also wore similar uniforms and insignia; the uniform of a SA member was principally a brown shirt (the members were called "brownshirts", Braunhemden), a Swastika armband (Hakenkreuzarmbinde) and a kepi cap (Schaftmütze). The SA-style kepi of the NSKK had a black top and brown (khaki) sides (Steife Schaftmütze aus olivbraunem Gabardinetuch, schwarzer Mützendeckel). Special uniforms also existed for corps of the SA, such as the motorized SA, the SA Alpine troops, and the SA-Marine, considered an auxiliary of the Kriegsmarine. It was the SA-Marine that expanded its uniforms almost to a level unto themselves, with special nautical insignia which no other unit of the SA displayed.

Cropped page from Organisationsbuch der NSDAP issued by the Nazi Party's national organizational leader (Reichsorganisationsleiter) Robert Ley for the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, Reichsorganisationsamt; published in 1936 by Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., München; circa 550 pages, 71 pages of plates; German language; letters in Fraktur style typefaces.

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) was a far-right, nationalist, antisemitic and anti-Marxist political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. The Nazi Party command structure was divided into the general membership (Parteimitglieder), the political leadership corps (Politische Leiter), the upper command levels encompassed by the Gauleiter and Reichsleiter, and the position of Führer held by Adolf Hitler as supreme leader. Ranks of the Nazi Party were paramilitary titles. All political leaders wore official uniforms, while regular party members wore civilian clothing with a standard party badge. The uniforms, ranks and insignia of the Nazi party and its sub-organizations – Sturmabteilung (SA), SS, Gestapo, Hitler Youth, etc. – underwent several changes.