English: Nazi Propaganda photo of uniformed leaders (German: SS Führer) of the SS Regiment I Munich, on guard by the Senatorensaal (Senators' Hall, conference/council room), the paramilitary standards of the regional Nazi Party and the Ehrentafeln/Heldentafeln (honour plaques/heroes tables of the Blutzeuge, the November 9th 1923 Putsch Nazi martyrs) in the lobby of the Brown House in Munich, Germany, ca. 1931–1932.

• The 1st SS-Standarte was a regimental command of the Allgemeine-SS and one of the units in the General-SS order of battle. Based in Munich, the 1st SS Standarte was charged with protection of top Nazi Party leaders, including Adolf Hitler.
• The Brown House was the name given to the Munich mansion located between the Karolinenplatz and Königsplatz, which was purchased in 1930 for the Nazis. They converted the structure into the headquarters of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP). It officially opened on 1 January 1931, which is when the party leadership moved into the building. Many leading Nazis, including Adolf Hitler, maintained offices there throughout the party's existence. It was destroyed by Allied bombing raids during the Second World War in October 1943.
  • In the Fahnen-Halle ("Hall of Flags") all the important flags of the Munich NSDAP were kept along with the old flags returned by the police. The battalion flags of the Munich SA had a blue box to the corner. In front of the flags was a bronze bust of Otto von Bismarck. Also stored in the Brown House was the so-called Blutfahne ("blood flag" or "blood banner"). This was the NSDAP flag that had been carried at the head of the demonstration during the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923. When Munich police had opened fire on the marchers, it had been spattered with the blood of the wounded and became a sacred relic of the Nazi Party.
• Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel:
  • In 1929, under new Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the SS codified its first uniform regulations: the signature black color was extended to breeches, boots, armband edges, and belt and crossbelt; the shirt collar was edged in black-and-white twist cord except for those of senior leaders, which were trimmed in silver.
  • For the lower ranks, the SS also specified that a patch showing the wearer's regiment (Standarte) would be worn opposite the badge of rank while the higher SS leaders would continue to wear oakleaf insignia on both collars. Collar tabs below the rank of Sturmführer were edged in black-and-white twist cord; those of Sturm and Sturmbann leaders used black-and-silver while those of senior leaders were edged in solid silver cord.
  • In addition to the collar unit insignia, the SS now created a cuffband system which was worn on the lower left sleeve.
  • Black SA kepi cap (Schaftmütze) with a Totenkopf skull and bones symbol.

The very first SA uniforms and insignia were paramilitary uniforms fashioned by early Nazis which incorporated parts from World War I uniforms to include high boots, daggers, and the kepi hat.

In 1932, the SS introduced its best known uniform, the black ensemble. The shirt remained brown as a nod to the SA, of which the SS was still nominally a part, but all else was black from high boots to the new military-style peaked cap, aside from the red armband.

• 'Deutschland, erwache!', "Germany, ewake!", came to be one of the most influential and powerful propaganda slogans of the German Nazi Party, used on its paramilitary units' standards, and popularized by Hitler for his entire political campaign throughout the 1920s and escpecially leading up to the 1933 election. The phrase was taken from the Nazi song Sturmlied
  • As symbols of the new Germany, the four first "DEUTSCHLAND ERWACHE" standards ("Nürnberg", "Landshut", "München" and "München II") were introduced on a party rally held outside Munich in January 1923. The slogan was used on banners of both SA and SS units, as well as by the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) and the Ordnungspolizei.

Image copied from a collection of German Nazi Party photos in the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Record Group 242: National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1675 - 1958 242-LGN - The Hoffmann Collection; Series: Miscellaneous Photographs, ca. 1919 - ca. 1934. Unrestricted access and use; photograph held by the National Archives in the public domain as seized enemy property after World War II.