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Company Officer's Handbook Of The German Army - All Gauge Page

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Section VII.<br />

MILITARY SYMBOLS<br />

41. GENERAL<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>German</strong> Armed Forces use military symbols extensively on<br />

maps, in tables of organization, and on direction and location signposts<br />

in combat zones. Military symbols will also be seen on vehicles<br />

and equipment, with or without the divisional emblem. <strong>The</strong> <strong>German</strong><br />

system of military symbols consists of a number of basic and<br />

supplementary symbols, which are used in combinations to indicate<br />

various headquarters, units, and equipment.<br />

At the beginning of the present war, the <strong>German</strong>s used an elaborate<br />

system of military symbols. Apparently the system was found<br />

to be too complicated for use in the field, and two lists of amendments<br />

(one dated November 1942 and the other January 1943)<br />

were issued with the object of simplifying the basic and supplementary<br />

symbols for weapons and 'equipment.<br />

<strong>The</strong> revised system of military symbols is analyzed briefly below.<br />

1 Inasmuch as many <strong>German</strong> charts, maps, and other documents<br />

may still employ the old basic symbols, the superseded<br />

symbols for weapons and equipment are also presented.<br />

42. BASIC SYMBOLS FOR HEADQUARTERS<br />

<strong>The</strong> following basic symbols are employed to indicate headquarters:<br />

High Command of krmy Group <strong>Army</strong> Corps<br />

the <strong>Army</strong><br />

1 For a more detailed analysis, see <strong>German</strong> Military Symbols (1 April 1944),<br />

published jointly by the Military Intelligence Division, War Department, Washington,<br />

and the Directorate of Military Intelligence, War <strong>Of</strong>fice, London.<br />

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