Police NCO Sleeve Eagles

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Shown here is a variation of the "cut out" FSP eagle on green. Unlike the previous example this eagle is embroidered all in carmine-pink, without a black swastika and eye. This all carmine-pink eagle is embroidered exactly like a feuerwehr eagle on blue.

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And here is a FSP/Feuerwhr eagle on summer cotton. In this case the eagle is all carmine-pink, and the background is not the familiar "mottled" material but a solid green "canvas-like" cotton with a sewn edge to prevent fraying. These eagles were worn on the fire department overalls often seen in photos being worn by female auxilliary fire fighters.

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Although the "motorized gendarmerie" handled traffic police duties on the highways the Verkehrspolizei were the traffic police in the cities. They were a sub-formation of the Schutzpolizei, but wore white cotton tunics with a red branch color while performing traffic control duties. As far as I am aware they continued to wear "named" eagles throughout the war as they were not assigned to work outside of the city proper and would not have been in "combat" zones.

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The Wasserschutzpolizei were the waterways and lakes civil police. They wore navy type reefer tunics with a yellow sleeve eagle. WSP eagles were NEVER named.

Here is an example of a WSP eagle on dark blue wool for the service uniform:

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Surprisingly, a "mottled" green summer weight cotton tunic was authorized for the WSP as well as the other branches.

Here is an example of the eagle that would be worn on such a summer tunic. Again these were never named.

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The Feuerwehr were the volunteer and career fire fighters. They wore traditionally blue uniforms with a bright carmine-pink branch color. Unlike the other police branches, they never removed the cith and district names from their sleeve eagles, and "cut out" versions of the blue fire eagle are unknown.

Here is a typical Feuerwehr eagle.

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Shown here is an interesting variation of a Feuerwehr eagle where the town name has been embroidered in a running script rather than the block letters more typically used. Clearly the name was added after the eagle was produced, probably locally by the fireman himself.

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Feuerwehr eagles, like all branches were initially produced without names. The names were added by the buyer to fit his jurisdiction. The thread color of the naming often doesn't match that of the eagle itself.

Shown here is a production "blank" eagle, before having the name added:

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The Verwaltungspolizei were the "administrative" police officials responsible for non-crime related functions such as building and safety inspectors, etc. Although all Verwaltungspolizei personnel held officer's pay grade, NCO uniforms were worn during training and probationary periods. Gray was their branch color.

Shown here is a gray sleeve eagle which could have been used by a VP NCO. Later war female personnel would have also used this eagle so it is impossible to say for sure what this particular eagle was actually used for.

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Female police auxilliaries wore a small white eagle on the lower sleeve during the pre-war period. This is such an eagle. It is roughly 1/3 the size of a "standard" police sleeve eagle. Later a "full sized" sleeve eagle in white/gray was specified for used by uniformed female police personnel.

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After the war started some police related organizations were absorbed into the civil police and began wearing a police sleeve eagle. One such organization was the TENO, a technical emergency corp which wore black as a branch color. Although police eagles were specified, few TENO personnel actually recieved the insignia or wore it. Consequently it is amongst the hardest of police sleeve eagles to find.

Shown here is an example of a very rare black police eagle for use on a Tenopolizei uniform.

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Another "pseudo-police" organization absorbed into the civil police was the Luftschutz. All LS functions other than air raid wardens came under the control of the police early in the war and sleeve eagles on Luftwaffe gray were worn on their recycled flight blouses.

There were actually three different branch colors used by LSP NCO's depending on their function within the LSP.

Green was worn by technicians and medical personnel as shown here:

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Fire fighting personnel of the Luftschutzpolizei wore a carmine-pink eagle on gray as shown here:

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And lastly, debris removal and construction crews of the Luftschutzpolizei wore a white/gray eagle as shown here:

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The Werkfeuerwehr were factory specific firemen employed by the concerned companies, and although not actually members of the civil authority wore uniforms similar to other fire fighters. They wore a sleeve eagle like the Feuerwehr but with the title of Werkfeuerwehr embroifdered above the eagle as shown here.