KRIEGSMARINES
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Contrary to the German Army, which had entire divisions of foreign volunteers, the number of foreign volunteers in the Navy, had never exeeded 10.000. Foreign volunteers either formed small units and were of the same status and the kriegsmarines or joined the German units or had the status of civilians and were members of Armed Forces Assistance Personnel (Wehrmachtgefolge).

Ukrainians joined the German Navy in two ways:

1. The former members of Ukrainian Navy of 1918 who settled in Galicia and those Galicians who were in Polish Navy, volunteered and served in the Baltic and Atlantic.

2. Ukrainian prisoners of war from Soviet Navy, who were taken to Kriegsmarines and served primary but not necessary in the Black Sea. In adition they formed a coastal defence battery in Northern France.

When national shields and cockades were introduced in 1944. Uniforms, ranks and rank insignia were the same as the blue or field-gray navy uniform of German marines. Auxiliaries would wear uniforms without the national patches but instead would use yellow "Deutche Wehrmacht" armband. Theoretically for all European volunteers the ranks were listed all the way up to the rank of the admiral, even such rank would never be bestowed. For auxiliaries, they could be promoted to Obergefreiter and by exemption to Maat if their employment as an auxiliary in a duty position of Maat would free a German NCO from front-line duties.

The interpreters wore a black band, which bore a white inscription "Sprachmittler" (Interpreter) in Latin letters.

On July 19th, 1944 Order No.83. required German soldiers to salute indigenous officers in the same manner as German officers, and required a "mutual comradely salute" between German and indigenous soldiers.

On August 11th, 1944 Order No.109 prohibited the further use of terms "foreign" (auslandische) or "german" (Germanische) volunteers, and substituted the term "European" (europaische) volunteers in the navy publications.

When the national patches for Galician volunteers were a similar patch to SS youth for Galicia, blue with a yellow rampart lion. Volunteers from the rest of Ukraine, according to Order No.508 would use a similar patch as Ukranian Liberation Army - blue and yellow shield with a white Trident of St.Volodymyr.

Cockades: A golden lion on blue oval shield for Galicians, a blue and yellow cockade for Ukrainian volunteers, for officers, with a serrated outer yellow oval.

UNIFORMS
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