Nationalsocialist paramilitary ranks were pseudo-military titles which were used by the
Nazis, represented by the Nazi Party, the
National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), between the years of 1920 and 1945. Since the Nazi Party was by its very nature a
paramilitary organization, by the time of the
Second World War, several systems of paramilitary ranks had come into existence for both the Nazi Party itself and the various Nazi paramilitary organizations.