"DEUTSCHE UNIFORMEN" ('German Uniforms'), a booklet with colour plates and charts of military and paramilitary uniforms and insignia of Nazi Germany, published by <i>Moritz Ruhl Verlag / Kunstverlag / Kunstanstalt</i> in Leipzig, Germany in 1937:
<ul><li><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_and_insignia_of_the_Sturmabteilung" class="extiw" title="en:Uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung">Uniforms and insignia</a> of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung" class="extiw" title="en:Sturmabteilung">Sturmabteilung</a></i> (SA)</b>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party" class="extiw" title="en:Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a>'s original paramilitary wing.
<ul><li>Along with a brown shirt uniform, SA members would wear swastika armbands with a kepi cap. Right collar patch showed the number and type of unit, left collar patch the rank insignias.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepi" class="extiw" title="en:Kepi">Kepis</a>. The unit color was worn on the front of the kepi cap (<i>Schaftmütze</i>) as well as rank and unit collar patches. The marking system - patches/kepi color combined with gold or silver buttons/pips covered different SA divisions (see <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/corps_colours_of_the_Sturmabteilung" class="extiw" title="de:corps colours of the Sturmabteilung">corps colours of the Sturmabteilung</a>).</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_and_insignia_of_the_Sturmabteilung#Ranks_and_insignia" class="extiw" title="en:Uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung">Rank insignia</a>:
<ul><li>Shoulderstraps. Corded shoulder boards worn on the right shoulder: gold or silver for the officers, the enlisted men wore piping cords.</li>
<li>Collar tabs (<i>Kragenspiegel</i>). Right collar patch contains the number and type of unit (ascending up to "Obersturmbannführer" in SA and SS, and "Oberstaffelfuehrer" in NSKK): Left collar patch contain a pip and oak leaf system rank insignias (from ascending "Standartenfuehrer" both sides).</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><dl><dd>See also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wwiidaybyday.com/uniformen/sa.htm"><i>Sturmabteilung Uniformen</i></a> at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.wwiidaybyday.com">http://www.wwiidaybyday.com</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.germandaggers.com/Gallery/CT2W.php"><i>SA collar tab and shoulder board identification guide</i></a> at www.GermanDaggers.com.</dd>
<dd>etc.<br></dd></dl>
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