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Line-up of "the usual suspects":

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Darre appears to be wearing some sort of Government Official's coat:

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Ley is wearing a variant bullion wreath, similar to a DAF Werkschar leader's. Uncommon to see Bormann in a PL uniform.

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v. Epp:

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Funk, Koch, Greiser et al:

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Another angle of Ley in his Einsatz uniform:

[Nakida]

Franz Hofer 1944

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This is Generalkommissar Wilhelm Kube. It appears that for this rank they utilized the old Gauleiter pattern. He later switched to an RMBO uniform:

[Mark Costa]

These photos of Kube show him wearing the pre-1939 style of RETIRED BLACK Gauleiter collar tabs. Although removed from his Gauleiter position in 1936 he retained his seat in the Reichstag and was allowed by Hitler to wear the special black tabs of an honorary/retired gauleiter. These tabs continued to be worn by a select few men even into the war years. Shortly after his appointment in the RMBO he started wearing his uniform of an RMBO GeneralKomissaar.

Mark Costa

[Jeff Clark]

Here is a Kreisleiter in late war combat tunic eastern front. You sure never see any of these tunics and if you did, most people would dismiss as humped up fakes.

[Bob Coleman]

Here is a Kreisleiter in late war combat tunic eastern front. You sure never see any of these tunics and if you did, most people would dismiss as humped up fakes.

His camoflage tunic is certainly defeated by the Kreisleiter armband! Note also the unusual tunic being worn by the SA Stabstandartenfuhrer. I wonder if the young men digging the holes are Wehrmannschaft.

[ErichS]

This Kreisleiter tunic is a good example of never say never in this hobby!!

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Here is a Kreisleiter in late war combat tunic eastern front. You sure never see any of these tunics and if you did, most people would dismiss as humped up fakes.

Jeff, that is so true. Even if a real one survived the war, it has undoubtedly been taken apart for the insignia.

Looks like the same Kreisleiter wearing the TDB as in your color pic.

Bit of an oxymoron to wear cammo with the visor and armband....

[Lambert]

This Kreisleiter is from East Prussia, I can recall a picture of him, in the same Uniform with his Iron Cross 2nd Class, the Tank Destruktion Badge and wearing an early white Volkssturm-Armband, standing next to a sitting young woman with a typewriter. Acccording to the description of the picture, this Kreisleiter had led a Volkssturm unit against the soviets in late 1944.

[Jeff Clark]

Mike Miller says the Kreisleiter is Ernst Wagner, of Königsberg, who was very active in the defense of the city. Shown here again.

Thanks Mike!