What color shirts did the Fascists wear?

Answer 1

Hitler's army (the Wehrmacht Heer, the ground component of the Armed Forces) ordinarily wore a field-grey (feldgrau) color uniform. 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. 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 Air Force (Luftwaffe) wore pale blue-grey shirts.

No branch of the Wehrmacht wore the Nazi Party swastika armband.

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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 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. In that year the SS adopted the notorious black uniform- still with a brown shirt. 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. Between 1938 and 1940 the SS transitioned to a new uniform in a lighter grey than the Army. The Hakenkreuz armband was not worn with this uniform: it was replaced by the SS eagle worn as a patch on the left sleeve. This SS service dress can be quickly distinguished from the Army's because it had an open collar and tie like its black predecessor; the shirt was white. The Waffen-SS field uniform, however, was just the Army uniform with SS insignia.

Answer 2

Blackshirts