Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel shoulderboards on both sides. In March 1936, the camp "service" was formally established as the third branch of the SS, the "Totenkopfverbände" or skull units. At about this same time, for similar reasons, the military SS formations (the "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" and the "SS-Verfügungstruppe") adopted a service uniform in what was termed "earth-grey" ("erdgrau"). This also was based on the black uniform, but without the red "Hakenkreuz" armband, its place on the left sleeve being taken by an eagle-and-swastika patch, and worn with trousers and shoes or calf-high jackboots. In June 1938 this uniform was authorized for full-time "Allgemeine-SS"
Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis German scientific community in formulating racial policies and the Nazi Party’s censorship of medical journals, thereby ensuring that “racial hygiene” became considered “normal science”. According to an article in the "Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences", the book “destroys the argument that the German scientific community was coerced into participating in Nazi programs”. Proctor traces the history of eugenics prior to the Nazi Party’s rise to power and analyzes how the Nazis incorporated eugenic ideas into their ideology. He demonstrates how theories of racial science imbibed by the Nazis, and the adoption by scientists in turn of Nazi ideology led