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On both collar points of any uniform jacket there was a collar patch. Each patch consisted of the padding, and two parallel facings (German: Patten), the so-called Litzenspiegel, symbolising the double braid of the 19th century. The padding of full-dress collar patches showed the wearer's Waffenfarbe (corps color).
Shoulder-straps and, in many cases, collar patches were piped or underlaid in Waffenfarbe, a color code which often identified the branch of service to which the unit belonged: white for infantry, red for artillery, rose-pink for Panzer troops and so on.
Panzer uniforms had patches with metal skull devices and waffenfarbe piping. Patches for enlisted assault gun wrappers used a standard double litzen tab with waffenfarbe piping. Regular hand-embroidered tab for the service tunic of a panzer officer. Later war artillery officer. The patch is BeVo woven rather that hand-embroidered.
21 cze 2022 · Up until 1938, enlisted ranks' collar patches for army field uniforms displayed the branch color on the Litzenspiegel. By an order of 26 November 1938, this practice was discontinued and standardized collar patches with a dark green Litzenspiegel were introduced for all branches.
Panzer uniform. The Panzer uniform (German: Sonderbekleidung der [[Panzertruppen]]) consisted of black wool hip-length double-breasted jacket and trousers, with skulls on the collar patches instead of Litzen and, officially until 1942, collar piping in Waffenfarbe (usually the rose-pink of the armor branch, but also gold for former cavalry ...
In the Heer there was a strictly defined systematic of corps colours on collar patchs, uniform piping, and coloured edging around the shoulder boards or shoulder straps. The corps colours of the Reichswehr (1921 until ca. 1935) were almost identical to these of the Wehrmacht.
5 lip 2023 · A major exception to the wearing of Litzen was the "panzer wrap", the double-breasted jacket worn by crews of tanks and other armored vehicles. When the Panzertruppe were established in 1935, they were issued a distinctive black uniform and as a badge the Totenkopf or Death's-head.
