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English: Photo taken 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:
  • Display of misc. items and memorabilia related to the German Railway (Deutsche Reichsbahn) and the planning and incomplete construction of a Polarbahn with forced labour in Northern Norway during World War II (see Polar Line and Northern Norway Line), etc.:
    • WWII decorative porclain plates made by the Norwegian Porsgrunds Porselænsfabrik flatware company for the 214. Infanterie-Division of the German Wehrmacht:
      • Decorated with 'viking style' ornaments and stylised Norwegian folk costumes (II. A.R.214)
      • Jul 1941 (Norwegian, meaning 'Christmas 1941'), II-AR-214, decorated with drawing of German soldier and cannon in winter landscape
    • Yellow armbands for service for the Wehrmacht and Organisation Todt (Arbeitet für O. T., i. e. 'works for the O. T.')
    • Scale model of German Elektrolokomotiv E19, electric locomotive of the Deutsche Reichsbahn build from 1938
    • Bahnhofswache gorget (Ringkragen, Brustschild), III (i. e. Berlin), identical in size and style to the Feldgendarmerie gorgets, with military style national Nazi Germany eagle-and-swastika (Hakenkreuzadler) emblem at the corners. Bahnhofswache ("Bahnpolizei" oder "Kettenhunde") were regular Wehrmacht troops who were assigned to duty in railway stations throughout Germany and the occupied territories.
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