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Post  wfrad Sun 06 Sep 2009, 10:39 pm

I was tempted to place thin into the Belgium ’14 post to try and keep the Belgium stuff together.
A brief rundown,
In October 1933 the Flemish nationalist parties banded together to form the Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond [Flemish National Union] VNV.  Its ideals were the breakup of Belgium and establish a Greater Netherlands for all peoples of Dutch Flemish ancestry from the north Friesland to French Flanders in the south.
In May 1941 the German authorities announced that authorized political parties in Flanders must merge with the VNV or be dissolved, since only collaborationist parties were authorized it just meant an amalgamation of pro Nazi groups.
The Uniformed Militia [Dietsche Militie] was formed by the amalgamation of the grey shirted Grijz Werfbrigade and the Dinaso Militanten Order.
This new militia was divided into four sub sections.
1, Zwarte Brigade, or Black Brigade was the original volunteer storm troop of the party open to men between the ages of 18 and 25, but in 1942 conscription was introduced for male party members up to the age of 40.
2, Wacht Brigade or Guards Brigade were a regular armed branch of the DM used for internal security.
3, Motor Brigade was the motorized section.
4, Hulp Brigade or Auxiliary Brigade were older members who acted as stewards for meetings and rallies, non regular and unarmed.
The rank chart I believe is self explanatory, for the more senior ranks the description is silver cords although I’m not quite certain about the rank of Commandant General having just silver, if it followed the Nazi parties compulsion for showing off it may have has gold lights, maybe?  
Further details can be found in Foreign Legions of the Third Reich Vol. 2 by David Littlejohn.
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Post  wfrad Tue 08 Sep 2009, 10:05 am

For the next design,
All collar patches were green and the shoulder straps of the NCOs ranks were also green.
Officers of Banleider and above wore their rank insignia on both collar patches, below Bandleider rank insignia was worn only on the right collar with unit number on the left in Roman numerals.  The three legged sun wheel of the Commandant General was later replaced by a four legged ‘mobile swastika’.
The latter pattern ranks followed the SS and SA in design.
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Post  wfrad Tue 15 Sep 2009, 8:47 am

Here’s an attempt at the third and final rank structure of the Belgian Black Brigade of WWII.
Which was more like the political and SS ranks of Germany.  
Also the Commandant General changed to the mobile swastika instead of the sun wheel.
Tried to find more info but failed miserably taking most of the information from David Little John’s book and trying to compare it with some very poor photographs.  
Many of the ranks are sadly unknown for now, so you can call them what you wish unless someone happens to know what the later ranks were. The oak leaf for Banleider should possibly have been a little smaller and less curved!
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WF
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