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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, Nazi Germany and the German occupation of Norway 1940 – 1945:

• Offentlig kunngjøring, Norwegian announcement WWII * Photos, relief/quotation, and painting of Adolf Hitler (large-format print of propaganda portrait oil painting of Hitler by Willy Exner) on wall
• Die deutsche Frau raucht nicht ("The German woman does not smoke"), framed wall sign with anti-smoking slogan in Blackletter typeface
• Reich Service flag (Reichsdienstflagge), Third Reich State Service flag
• Office furniture (desk) and items:
  • German typewriter with "SS key" (Schreibmaschine Marke "Continental" mit SS Runentaste)
  • Wine bottle (Robert Boos Niederdonau-Weine) and wine cooler ice bucket with SS style Nazi eagle
  • Tabletop/desk clock decorated with the swastika-and-shovel emblem of RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst) etc.
  • Signal, magazine published by the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany 1940–1945 as an illustrated photo journal and army propaganda tool for audiences in neutral, allied, and occupied countries, SS book, German telephone book (Fermsprechbuch Berlin 1942)
  • Books: Frimureriets avsløring, Norwegian edition 1928 of Vernichtung der Freimaurerei durch Enthüllung ihrer Geheimnisse by Erich Ludendorff
  • Desk lamp used for interrogation
  • Letters, etc.
  • Writing pad with Nazi eagle-and-swastika emblem

etc.

• Small electrical heater on floor
• Large relief sculpted wall decoration of the Nazi style German national imperial eagle (Reichsadler, Hoheitszeichen, Hoheitsadler , Hakenkreuzadler, eagle-and-swastika insignia)
• Wall posters in German and Norwegian with an announcement (German: Bekanntmachung, Norwegian: Kunngjøring) from Reichskommissar Terboven in occupied Norway issued 1941-03-23
• Swingtanzen verboten; Reichskulturkammer, fake wall sign. Though American inspired swing dance was prohibited by the Nazis, this sign is a pastich/fake designed in the 1970s.

etc.

The Gestapo ("Secret State Police"), was the official secret political police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe before and during World War II. The Gestapo force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933. In 1934 it was passed to the administration of | (SS) national leader Heinrich Himmler, who in 1936 was appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler, and made a sub-office of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo; Security Police). From 1939 the Gestapo was administered by the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) and considered a sister organisation to the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service). During the war the Gestapo played a key role in the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe.