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

• Head (Stellenleiter) of Gauleitung (regional leadership) in walking out dress (Ausgehanzug, semi-formal uniform)
  • Visor cap (Schirmmütze) of 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: black (later white), Gau: red, Reich: bright lemon yellow), cap band of coloured wool, visor of dark brown vulkanfibre, chin cord
  • 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 was 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).
  • Tunic (Waffenrock): Open lapel cut, single-breasted service jacket for the political leadership corps, in typical brown/tan textile, with two side pockets, two box-pleated patch breast pockets with stylised (scalloped) button-down flaps, and turned up cuffs
  • Collar patches/tabs (Kragenspiegel) with rank insignia
  • Swastika armband (Kampfbinde, Hakenkreuzarmbinde)
  • Nazi Party membership badge, etc.
  • Cap, collar, collar tabs and armband lined with coloured piping indicating the organizational regional level
  • Blouse (shirt), necktie
  • Leather belt
  • Leather gloves
  • Trousers, shoes
• Head of the Gauleitung in walking out dress (Ausgehanzug, semi-formal uniform) with greatcoat
  • Long doubled buttoned duty overcoat with open collar and lapels (double breasted closure)
  • Collar patches/tabs (Kragenspiegel) with rank insignia
    

(New regulation: white shirt, white collar)

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 four basic levels: 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 history of the uniforms, ranks and insignia of the Nazi party and its sub-organizations – Sturmabteilung (SA), SS, Gestapo, Hitler Youth, etc. – can be divided into several time periods.