Nazi eagle Patch#
With the tropical uniform and its belt of cotton webbing, officers wore a buckle identical to the dress buckle but painted olive-drab.Ĭollar patch ( Kragenpatte, Kragenspiegel)
Generals' were the same but gilt or gold-plated. With dress uniform officers wore a belt of silver braid with a circular silver-washed or -plated aluminum buckle, in the form of an oakleaf wreath surrounding a Heeresadler. Officers' field and service buckles were of a two-pronged frame type. For field wear these were usually painted field-grey to reduce visibility and had a smooth finish on the other hand, dress buckles were silver-washed with a pebbled surface surrounding the Hoheitszeichen. A stamped metal pin-on breast eagle was worn with the officers' white summer tunic.īelt buckles for enlisted men were of box type, made of aluminum or stamped steel and bearing a circular device with a version of the Hoheitszeichen called the Army eagle or Heeresadler (an eagle with downswept wings clutching an unwreathed swastika) surmounted by the motto Gott mit uns ("God with us"). There were also versions for other uniforms: both white and grey variants on black for the Panzer uniform, and in dull grey-blue on tan backing for the tropical ( Afrikakorps) uniform. Very late in the war some Hoheitszeichen were simply printed on thin fabric. Another version appeared with the advent of the Model 1944 Field Blouse, which used a triangular backing for speed and simplicity of manufacture. When hostilities began in 1939, on the enlisted Feldbluse or field blouse the eagle was changed from silver-white to matte grey for reduced visibility and in 1940 backings began to be produced in field-grey ( feldgrau). The war brought several variations to the breast eagle, although it should be kept in mind that none of them was replaced or de-authorized, and all were being worn side by side at war's end. The backing was "badge-cloth" ( Abzeichentuch), a close-woven velvetish fabric this was originally Reichsheer grey, but in late 1935 the renamed Wehrmacht Heer changed its Abzeichentuch color to a dark blue-green called flaschengrün (bottle-green). For enlisted uniforms it was jacquard-woven ("BeVo") or sometimes machine-embroidered in silver-grey rayon, for officers machine- or hand-embroidered in white silk or bright aluminum wire, and for generals hand-embroidered in gold bullion. On tunics this took the form of a cloth patch about 9 cm (3⅝") wide worn on the right breast, above the pocket. The design adopted, in silver for the Reichsheer (army) and in gold for the Reichsmarine (navy), was a stylized eagle with outstretched, beveled wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, later to be called the Wehrmachtsadler ("armed forces eagle"). The Reichswehr's visual acknowledgement of the new National Socialist reality came on 17 February 1934, when the Commander-in-Chief, Werner von Blomberg, ordered the Nazi Party eagle-and-swastika, then Germany's National Emblem, to be worn on uniform blouses and headgear effective 1 May. Insignia National Emblem: Hoheitszeichen or Wehrmachtsadler 3.4 Military Supreme Court officials ( Wehrmachtbeamte beim Reichskriegsgericht).3.1 Armed Forces officials ( Wehrmachtbeamte).3 Armed Forces officials and Sonderführer.2.2 Ranks at the Private/Senior Private levels.2.1.6 General officers and marshals ( Generäle).2.1.3 Senior non-commissioned specialist officers.2.1.2 Non-commissioned officers ( Unteroffiziere).2.1.1 Enlisted personnel ( Mannschaften).1.3 Shoulder-straps ( Schulterklappen) and shoulder boards ( Schulterstücke).1.2.4 Infanterie Regiment "Großdeutschland".1.2 Collar patch ( Kragenpatte, Kragenspiegel).1.1 National Emblem: Hoheitszeichen or Wehrmachtsadler.
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