Uniforms and insignia of the Reichsluftschutzbund were paramilitary titles adopted by the Reichsluftschutzbund (transl. State Air Protection Corps – RLB) for wear on paramilitary uniforms of the RLB. Much like the uniforms of the SA and the SS, the RLB maintained its own elaborate system of uniforms and ranks.

Uniforms and insignia of the Reichsluftschutzbund were paramilitary titles adopted by the Reichsluftschutzbund (transl. State Air Protection Corps – RLB) for wear on paramilitary uniforms of the RLB. Much like the uniforms of the SA and the SS, the RLB maintained its own elaborate system of uniforms and ranks.

The RLB was in charge of educating and training ordinary German men and women in civil defence procedures necessary for the basic level of local self-help of the civil population against air raids.

The comparative ranks of Nazi Germany contrasts the ranks of the Wehrmacht to a number of national-socialist organisations in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in a synoptic table.

Uniforms and insignia of the Reichsluftschutzbund were paramilitary titles adopted by the Reichsluftschutzbund (transl. State Air Protection Corps – RLB) for wear on paramilitary uniforms of the RLB.

Uniforms and insignia of Reichsluftschutzbund were paramilitary titles adopted by the Reichsluftschutzbund (transl. State Air Protection Corps – RLB) for wear on the paramilitary uniforms of the RLB.

Ranks and insignia of Reichsluftschutzbund were paramilitary titles adopted by the Reichsluftschutzbund (State Air Protection Corps - RLB) for wear on the paramiliary uniforms of the RLB. The insignia of the Reichsluftschutzbund were modeled after that of the German Luftwaffe while the ranks...

In 1936 the RLB introduced an Officer’s dagger for wear by the ranks of RLB-Führer to RLB-Präsident, and a Subordinates dagger for wear by the ranks of RLB-Truppmann to RLB-Obertruppmeister. In 1938 the RLB emblem was redesigned and the second pattern Officer’s and Subordinate daggers with the new emblem were introduced.

Ranks and insignia of Reichsluftschutzbund were paramilitary titles adopted by the Reichsluftschutzbund (State Air Protection Corps - RLB) for wear on the paramiliary uniforms of the RLB.

The RLB was organized into 15 Landesgruppen, each divided into Untergruppen, Ortsgruppen, and finally into Reviere (wards or precincts). It was initially formed in 1933 by a joint effort from NSDAP, Wehrmacht, and most importantly, the Luftwaffe, although up to 1940 it was considered separate from the Air Force even though the German Air ...