English: Illustration from the official Nazi Party handbook 1936, showing flags, emblems, signs, badges, ranks, insignia, uniforms, etc.:

• Visor caps for political leaders (Politischen Leiter) at different organizational levels. Tunic collars, collar tabs and visor caps were lined with coloured piping (German: Kragen- und Mützenpassepoil, Paspeln, Paspelierung, Passepoil) to denote membership in the particular Nazi Party level:
  • Reichsleitung (national level, German nation) – golden yellow
    
  • Gauleitung (regional level, German states and their provinces) – dark red
  • Kreisleitung (district level – German counties) – black (later white)
  • Ortsgruppen (local level, German towns and cities) – light blue
    

Cropped page from Organisationsbuch der NSDAP issued by the Nazi Party's national organizational leader (Reichsorganisationsleiter) Robert Ley for the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, Reichsorganisationsamt; published in 1936 by Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., München; circa 550 pages, 71 pages of plates; German language; letters in Fraktur style typefaces.

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) was a far-right, nationalist, antisemitic and anti-Marxist political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. The Nazi Party command structure was divided into four basic levels: the general membership (Parteimitglieder), the political leadership corps (Politische Leiter), the upper command levels encompassed by the Gauleiter and Reichsleiter, and the position of Führer held by Adolf Hitler as supreme leader. Ranks of the Nazi Party were paramilitary titles. All political leaders wore official uniforms, while regular party members wore civilian clothing with a standard party badge. The history of the uniforms, ranks and insignia of the Nazi party and its sub-organizations – Sturmabteilung (SA), SS, Gestapo, Hitler Youth, etc. – can be divided into several time periods.