SS Membership Runes for Order Police

The SS Membership Runes for Order Police was a badge worn by members of the uniformed order police or Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) of Nazi Germany who were also full members of the Schutzstaffel (SS). The badge was centered on the lower left hand jacket pocket and appeared as two white Sig Runes, itself the symbol of the SS.

The SS Membership Runes were the first step in a merger of the Order Police and the SS, with Kurt Daluege and Heinrich Himmler both agreeing on a total merger of the SS and Police in Germany. This process was taken one step further in 1942, when all Orpo Police Generals were granted equivalent SS rank and began wearing modified SS-Police rank insignia.