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Obersturmführer collar insignia

Obersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the The Nazi swastika symbol The National Socialist German Workers Party ( German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ...Nazi party that was used by the For other uses of the abbreviation SS, see SS (disambiguation) The Schutzstaffel (Protective Squadron), or SS, was a large paramilitary organization that belonged to the Nazi party. ...Schutzstaffel and also as a The ranks and insignia of the Sturmabteilung (SA) were the first paramilitary rank system to be developed by the Nazi Party in 1920. ...rank of the SA. Translated as “Senior Storm Leader”, the rank of Obersturmführer was first created in 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...1932 as the result of an expansion of the Hitler addressing SA members in the late 1920s The Sturmabteilung (SA, German for Storm Division and is usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organisation of the NSDAP – the German Nazi party. ...Sturmabteilung (SA) and the need for an additional rank in the officer corps. Obersturmführer also became an Throughout the existence of the German SS, the organization maintained a unique set of ranks and insignia that differentiated it from other branches of the German military, German state, and the Nazi Party. ...SS rank at that same time.

A security forces SS-Obersturmführer of the RSHA, or the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, was a subsidiary organization of the S.S. created by Heinrich Himmler on September 22, 1939, through the merger of the Sicherheitsdienst, the Gestapo and the Kriminalpolizei. ...RSHA, circa 1940

An SA_Obersturmführer was typically a junior company commander in charge of between fifty to 100 Nazi stormtroopers. Within the SS, the rank of Obersturmführer carried a wider range of occupations from staff aide, Gestapo is a portmanteau contraction of the name of the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, Geheime Staatspolizei, (German for secret state police). During the reign of Nazi Germany, the Gestapo was the central intelligence agency of Germany, under the overall administration of the SS. It was administrated by...Gestapo officer, A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war_zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...Concentration Camp supervisor, and Waffen_SS Platoon Commander to name but a few. Within both the SS and SA, the rank of Obersturmführer was considered the equivalent of an Oberleutnant is a rank of the German military which dates from the early 19th century. ...Oberleutnant in the German The Wehrmacht (literally defence force or means/power of resistance) was the name of the armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. ...Wehrmacht.

The insignia for Obersturmführer was three silver pips and a silver stripe centered on a uniform collar patch. The rank was senior to an Untersturmführer (or Sturmführer in the SA), and junior to the rank of Hauptsturmführer was a Nazi rank of the SS which was used between the years of 1934 and 1945. ...Hauptsturmführer.