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Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party. Gauleiter Bernhard Rust wearing a mid-1930s Nazi Party jacket with shoulder boards and collar patches. Ranks and insignia were used by the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) as paramilitary titles between approximately 1928 and the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945.
Awards and decorations of Nazi Germany were military, political, and civilian decorations that were bestowed between 1923 and 1945, first by the Nazi Party and later the state of Nazi Germany . The first awards began in the 1920s, before the Nazis had come to national power in Germany, with the political decorations worn on Party uniforms ...
The ability to produce and issue complete uniforms came about due both to the centralisation of the Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM; national quartermaster office) under NSDAP Treasurer Franz Xaver Schwarz, and to Himmler's expansion and reorganisation of the fast-growing SS (from 280 members to 52,000 between 1929 and 1932) into several brigade-sized ...
The Golden Party Badge ( German: Goldenes Parteiabzeichen) was an award authorised by Adolf Hitler in a decree in October 1933. It was a special award given to all Nazi Party members who had, as of 9 November 1933, registered numbers from 1 to 100,000 and had unbroken Party membership. [ 2] The recipient's party number was inscribed on the ...
Political decorations of the Nazi Party were medals and awards issued by the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) between 1920 and 1945. Political awards were authorised for wear on any paramilitary uniform of Nazi Germany, as well as civilian attire, but were generally discouraged (but not forbidden) on Wehrmacht military uniforms.
The comparative ranks of Nazi Germany contrasts the ranks of the Wehrmacht to a number of national-socialist organisations in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in a synoptic table. Nazi organisations used a hierarchical structure, according to the so-called Führerprinzip (leader principle), and were oriented in line with the rank order system of ...
Photo: Jack de Nijs / Anefo. Nazi memorabilia are items produced during the height of Nazism in Germany, particularly the years between 1933 and 1945. Nazi memorabilia includes a variety of objects from the material culture of Nazi Germany, especially those featuring swastikas and other Nazi symbolism and imagery or connected to Nazi propaganda.
The NSDAP Office of Military Policy ( German: Wehrpolitisches Amt der NSDAP, W.P.A. or WPA, literally " NSDAP Office of Defense Policy " in English) was a Nazi Party organization. It was established on 8 September 1932 in a decree by Adolf Hitler, was led by Franz Ritter von Epp and Anton Haselmayer, [1] and housed in the same building as the ...