Obertruppführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party that was used between the years of 1932 and 1945. The rank is most closely associated with the Sturmabteilung, but also was an early rank of t
Uniform of a National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) Obertruppführer
SS-Verfügungstruppe was formed in 1934 as combat troops for the Nazi Party. On 17 August 1938 Adolf Hitler decreed that the SS-VT was neither a part of the Ordnungspolizei nor the Wehrmacht, but milit
LSSAH troops undergo a drill inspection in Berlin, November 1938
SS-VT in full marching order, 1935
Motorcycle unit of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf in the Soviet Union, 1941