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English: Photo taken in the "Gestapo room/office" at the Lofoten War Memorial Museum (Norwegian: Lofoten Krigsminnemuseum) in Svolvær, Norway's largest exhibition of uniforms and smaller items related to the Second World War and the German occupation of Norway 1940 – 1945:
  • Misc. German World War II uniform items and equipment used by the Schutzstaffel (SS) of the Nazi Party NSDAP, etc.:
    • German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz) Lebensborn printed on textile as emblem of the SS-initiated, state-supported Nazi association for helping mostly unmarried mothers giving birth to 'racially pure' Aryan children at maternity homes
    • Cloth patch with the SS bolts runic insignia (doppelte Siegrunen)
    • Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) personal metal number tag
    • High-fronted peaked visor cap (Schirmmütze) of the SS (Schutzstaffel).
      • SS style silver Hoheitszeichen/Hoheitsadler, SS' version of the Nazi Germany imperial eagle, the German national emblem featuring an art deco Reichsadler with expanded wings clutching a swastika inside a circular oak wreath
      • SS' silver skull and crossbones/death's head (Totenkopf) cap insignia, adopted from the Totenkopfhusaren, the 5th Hussar/Life-Guard Cavalry Regiment of Prussia
      • Officer's chin strap cord in silver
      • Piping around the cap crown and cap band in corps colour (Waffenfarbe, white for 'Infantry')
    • SS honour dagger (SS-Ehrendolch), with the SS slogan ("Meine Ehre heißt Treue", "My honour is loyalty") etched on the blade
    • SS uniform belt; metal buckle with the "Nazi Party eagle" (German: Parteiadler) and the SS motto Meine Ehre heißt Treue, "My honor is called loyalty" (SS Koppelschloß mit "Meine Ehre heißt Treue")
    • S. E. A. M. Taschenpistole (Fabrica de Armas S.E.A.M. ), semi-automatic cal. 6.35mm pocket pistol belonged to Gestapo officer Gross in Svolvær, Norway, with holster
    • SS red swastika armband (Hakenkreuzarmbinde), with a black stripe along the edges. (Without the red swastika armband, its place on the left uniform sleeve was taken by an SS style eagle-and-swastika patch.)
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