The Hakenkreuz armband was not worn with this uniform: it was replaced by the SS eagle worn as a patch on the left sleeve. Between 19 the SS transitioned to a new uniform in a lighter grey than the Army. The SS armband featured black stripes above and below the swastika.Hollywood loves sticking the sinister all-black SS outfit into World War II movies, and is nearly always wrong. In that year the SS adopted the notorious black uniform- still with a brown shirt. The SA did wear the swastika armband around the left upper arm.The SS was originally Hitler's personal bodyguard within the SA: until 1932 they wore the SA brown shirt but with black trousers and kepis.
The Air Force (Luftwaffe) wore pale blue-grey shirts.No branch of the Wehrmacht wore the Nazi Party swastika armband.-Of the Party's own military and paramilitary forces: The SA (Brownshirts) was the original gang of street toughs and bully-boys they wore tan uniforms which had originated as World War I tropical issue.
The desert sun soon faded everything to a khaki shade.Of the other branches of the Wehrmacht: the Navy (Kriegsmarine) wore white shirts (officers) and blue-and-white striped shirts (enlisted). The shirt was a brownish-grey called "mouse grey" this was not usually visible under the standard high-collared M36 tunic, but could be seen on armored-vehicle crewmen, who wore the double-breasted "Panzer wrap" which had an open collar and lapels and was worn with a black necktie.German troops in North Africa wore the tropical uniform which was all of an olive color: tunic, trousers, shirt and (theoretically) necktie. Hitler's army (the Wehrmacht Heer, the ground component of the Armed Forces) ordinarily wore a field-grey (feldgrau) color uniform.
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