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English: Double pages from the third edition of Organisationsbuch der NSDAP, the organizational handbook of the Nazi Party (NSDAP)

• Issued by organizational leader Robert Ley (1890 – 1945) for the Organization Department (Reichsorganisationsamt) of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei).
• Published by Franz Eher Nachfolger publishing house (Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf.) in Munich, Germany, 1937. Fraktur typeface.
• The publishing house and organization were disbanded in 1945. Uncredited illustrator. No known copyright restrictions.
• alexautographs.com 2020: The essential handbook of the NSDAP, 'Organisationsbuch der NSDAP' ('Organization Book of the NSDAP'), by Dr. Robert Ley (Munich: Franz Eher Nachf.) 1937, 556pp. 8vo., red cloth covered boards, illustrated. This book, never offered for sale, was the official Nazi party guide published by Reichsorganisationsleiter der NSDAP. It describes the structure and organizations of the NSDAP with eighty full color plates of tables, uniforms, awards, banners, etc. and includes as well many dozens of black and white and color illustrations. Every topic is covered, including the party's history, symbols, administration, racial theories, etc.
  

Color plates showing uniforms, emblems, insignia, etc. of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers' Party) in Nazi Germany.<

• Plate 49:
  • Service uniform of a Sturmmann in the SS-Verfügungstruppe
    • SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) was formed in 1934 as combat troops for the Nazi Party (NSDAP). On 17 August 1938 Adolf Hitler decreed that the SS-VT was neither a part of the Ordnungspolizei (order police) nor the Wehrmacht, but military-trained men at the disposal of the Führer. The SS-VT were involved in the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. By 1940 these military SS units had become the nucleus of the Waffen-SS.
    • In 1934, with the rise of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), the SS runes unit insignia was expanded to these other formations of the then fledgling military arm of the SS (later to become known as the Waffen-SS). To separate these new military formations from the main Leibstandarte regiment under Dietrich, the SS runes worn by the Verfügungstruppe displayed a small number corresponding to the particular SS-VT regiment of the bearer. Within the early military SS, which included the Leibstandarte and the formations of the SS-Verfügungstruppe, a series of cuffbands were introduced which bore the name of the regiment to which the bearer was assigned. The military SS formations (the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and the SS-Verfügungstruppe) adopted a service uniform in what was termed "earth-grey" (erdgrau). This also was based on the black uniform, but without the red swastika armband, its place on the left sleeve being taken by an eagle-and-swastika patch, and worn with trousers and shoes or calf-high jackboots.Once the war began, the black SS uniform was seldom worn. The combat units of the SS-Verfügungstruppe and the later Waffen-SS wore a variation of the field-grey (grey-green) (feldgrau) army uniform with SS insignia.
  • Sports outfit
• Plate 50: SS black uniforms (1932–1934) and SS pre-war uniforms (1934–1938)
  • Parade uniform of a SS-Verfügungstruppe ("Combat Support Force" 1934–1939), Scharführer
  • Service uniform with greatcoat for an Oberführer or Amtschef