Talk:Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party

Thirty ranks? How did that come about, how could it work?

I guess I dont understand the question. It came about becuase the NSDAP created the ranks. Earlier periods did not have so many. "How it worked"? I guess they just sewed them on the collars and went about their business. -Husnock 03:40, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

What were there relationships to the Nazi paramilitary ranks?

These are the Nazi paramilitary ranks. As for your original questions: as per the Führerprinzip, the Nazis were pretty much obsessed with ranks and titles, that's how it came about. How did it work? Not very well. The hierarchy was an absolute mess, since it wasn't uncommon to hold ranks in the SS, the Party, and in the Wehrmacht: it was possible that one's subordinant was his superior in the other organizations. This phenomenon just added to the enmity between the SS and the Wehrmacht. --SáT 23:42, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

What I meant was, how do these ranks relate to the ranks or the SS and SA etc. You partly answered this question, so how did they resolve this problem of holding various ranks? And was a particular rank listed here considered highler or lower than a particular ranks of the SS for example?

I've suggested here that there should be a page comparing the various ranks of the Third Reich to each other. - Matthew238 02:20, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

dont forget the ranks of the hitlerjugend .. maybe see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS-Ranggef%C3%BCge --92.117.91.68 (talk) 01:07, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

where did the insignias go?

where have the rank insignias gone??Feeblezak 11:43, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. Looks like a clean-up resulted in the images being tagged and removed.--Koncorde (talk) 17:16, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Purely interesting facet: Hoheren Sinnestrager

It certainly wasn't official, but where was this actually used or brought up initially to be sourced even as an idea? The term Hoheren Sinnestrager as per this source - ...The terminology is quite suggestive. To call God a Hoheren Sinnestrager meant linguistically to give him some place in the military hierarchy, since the Nazis had changed the military... 65.102.40.8 (talk) 06:47, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Armband History

The swastika armband (Hakenkreuzarmbinde) was introduced in 1920 by the early National Socialists as a "combat armband" (Kampfbinde). In doing so, they took over the swastika from the anti-Semitically influenced Völkische Bewegung.

Initially, this armband was used to identify the party members of the NSDAP, as they were equipped with different street clothes and a wide variety of reworked uniform pieces from the First World War or the Freikorps, and were often indistinguishable from their political opponents.

Before the introduction of the badges of rank and shoulder pieces, since 1921 the rank of the wearer was represented in the NS organisations by means of different horizontal stripes and colours. For the "Jugendbund der NSDAP", founded on 13 May 1922, which wore an SA-like uniform, a separate armband was introduced in 1924. This was later adopted by the Hitler Youth.

From 1925 the armband was called "Sturmbinde" (storm armband), but until the unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945 both designations were used. Until then there were about 38 variations of this armband.

This armband was a significant characteristic of the National Socialist functionaries during the National Socialist era. In the last weeks of the war, the swastika armband also served in some cases as a uniform substitute for the Volkssturm, although the latter was characterized by its own armband. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8109:B00:4776:DDFF:757A:C708:A613 (talk) 16:26, 14 July 2020 (UTC)