File:WW2 German Army Wehrmacht uniform in Norway 1940 Generalleutnant Richard Pellengahr General's visor cap Schirmütze Eagle-and-swastika emblem Hoheitsadler Kokarde Forsvarsmuseet Army Museum Oslo Norway 2021-07-31 IMG 1546.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(4,032 × 3,024 pixels, file size: 2.17 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: WW2 German army (Wehrmacht Heer) uniforms used in the German attack on Norway 1940:
  • General:
    • Officer's peaked cap/visor cap (Schirmmütze), high front, saddle shaped crown
      • Cap insignia (Mützenabzeichen):
        • Embossed metal insignia/cap badge: Eagle-and-swastika emblem adopted as national and military coat of arms from the Nazi Party emblem based on the German Reichsadler imperial eagle: called Hoheitszeichen ('national emblem'), Mützenadler ('cap eagle'), Wehrmachtsadler ('eagle of the armed forces') or Heeresadler ('army eagle');
        • National tri-color cockade, within an embroidred oak leaf wreath (Mützen-Eichenlaub, Eichenlaubkranz mit Kokarde, Blattkranz, VH-Kokarde);
      • Piping (Paspel, Paspelierung, trim) along the top of the crown and edges of the cap band in corps colours of the German Army (Waffenfarben des Heeres)
      • Officer's silver chin strap cord (Mützenkordel silber) over visor
Photo taken at Norwegian Armed Forces Museum (Forsvarsmuseet) in Oslo, Norway.
Norsk bokmål: Uniformer og utstyr båret av tyske soldater i Wehrmacht Heer (Nazi-Tysklands hær) under angrepet på Norge under andre verdenskrig i april 1940:
  • Uniformen til Richard Pellengahr (1883–1964), en av de tyske generalene under kampene våren 1940:
    • Høylue for offiserer i den tyske hæren (Wehrmacht Heer) med hakekorsørn og nasjonal kokarde med eikeløvsornament
Foto fra utstillingene i Forsvarsmuseet i Oslo:
Date
Source Own work
Author Wolfmann
Other versions

Licensing

[edit]
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
Nazi symbol Legal disclaimer
This image shows (or resembles) a symbol that was used by the National Socialist (NSDAP/Nazi) government of Germany or an organization closely associated to it, or another party which has been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

The use of insignia of organizations that have been banned in Germany (like the Nazi swastika or the arrow cross) may also be illegal in Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and other countries, depending on context. In Germany, the applicable law is paragraph 86a of the criminal code (StGB), in Poland – Art. 256 of the criminal code (Dz.U. 1997 nr 88 poz. 553).

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current02:43, 11 September 2021Thumbnail for version as of 02:43, 11 September 20214,032 × 3,024 (2.17 MB)Wolfmann (talk | contribs)Uploaded own work with UploadWizard

The following 17 pages use this file:

Metadata