Editing Volkssturm (section)

==Uniforms and insignia==<!-- This section is linked from [[Comparative military ranks]] -->
[[Image:Volkssturm armband.svg|thumb|200px|''Volkssturm'' armband]]
The ''Volkssturm'' "uniform" was only a black armband with the German words ''Deutscher Volkssturm [[Wehrmacht]]'' ("German People's Storm, (of the) Armed Forces").{{sfn|Lepage|2009|p=153}} The German government tried to issue as many of its members as possible with military uniforms of all sorts, ranging from ''[[Feldgrau]]'' to [[Military camouflage|camouflage]] types. To this end, the Nazi government meant for members of the ''Volkssturm'' to wear uniforms and avoid "partisan" weapons in order to maintain legality under international aggreements, but this did not always prove practicable.{{sfn|Yelton|2002|p=93}} 

Often, the members wore a motley assortment of whatever they could find for their uniforms; a telling example of the ''Volkssturm''{{'}}s piecemeal outfitting occurred in the [[Rhineland]], where one unit was provided with "pre-war black SS uniforms, brown Organization Todt coats, blue [[Luftwaffe]] auxiliary caps, and French [[Adrian helmet]]s."{{sfn|Stargardt|2015|p=458}} Most members of the ''Volkssturm'', especially elderly members, had no uniforms at all and were not supplied, so they generally wore either work uniforms (including railway workers, policemen, and firemen), Hitler Youth uniforms, old uniforms or parts of uniforms from the [[World War I|First World War]], or their civilian clothing and usually carried with them their own personal rucksacks, blankets, cooking-equipment, etc.{{sfn|Evans|2010|pp=675–676}}