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English: Uniform belonged to a Norwegian collaborationist volunteer in the Waffen-SS during the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War
  • 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')
  • Tunic (Waffenrock), single-breasted, with two side pockets and two box-pleated patch breast pockets, rank of SS-Untersturmführer and SS runes (Siegrunen) on collar patches/tabs (Kragenspiegel), shoulder straps, and SS-eagle on sleeve (SS Hoheitszeichen, Ärmelvogel), etc.
Photo taken in 2021 in the World War II exhibition of the Armed Forces Museum of Norway (Forsvarsmuseet) at Akershus Fortress, Oslo, Norway.

Norsk bokmål: Uniformslue og jakke som har tilhørt en norsk frivillig («frontkjemper») i Waffen-SS under den tyske okkupasjonen av Norge under andre verdenskrig. Jakka har gradtegn (rangdistinksjon) for SS-Untersturmführer (fenrik) på høyre kragespeil og SS-runer på venstre, høyluea har hakekorsørn og SS' hodeskallemerke. Foto fra utstilling i Forsvarsmuseet på Akershus festningsområde i Oslo.
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