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If you are referring to SS concentration-camp guards then, during the war years, they wore feldgrau (grey/green) uniforms that were more-or-less identical to those worn by the German Army, but with SS insignia.

Generally, concentration camps were guarded by SS Totenkopf ('Deaths Head') guard units, generally made up of SS men who were too old, or unfit, for combat duties. They can be identified from regular Waffen-SS (Armed-SS) troops because they wore a deaths' head insignia on their right collar patch, and their waffenfarbe (arm-of-service colour) was brown -this was the coloured underlay to their shoulder straps. In common with all other SS units, an SS-style eagle was worn midway up the left arm of the uniform, and the SS rank was shown on the left-hand collar patch as well as by the style of shoulder strap. As the war progressed, regular SS guards were supplemented with wounded Waffen-SS soldiers and, in some cases, Wehrmacht (Army or Luftwaffe) soldiers. These personnel usually wore a unusual version (double armed) of the swastika on their right collar patch, in place of the deaths' head badge.

Concentration camp guards should not be confused with members of the Waffen-SS 'Totenkopf' Division, who also wore the deaths' head badge on their right collar patch. These were fighting troops and members of what became an elite Panzer Division. However, this Waffen-SS Division was originally formed from the SS-Totenkopfverband which, in the pre-war years, was indeed raised to guard concentration camps. However, at the outbreak of the war, this organisation was expanded and became part of the Waffen-SS.

Prior to the outbreak of the war, the SS-Totenkopfverband members (when on duty) wore a brown working uniform that was identical, in cut, to the famous pre-war SS black uniform, but with the SS eagle, rather than a swastika armband, worn on the left arm.

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