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English: Recruitment poster issued 1941 for the Norwegian Legion´s Ski Ranger Battalion. Text in Norwegian: Vi Seirer! Bli med Den Norske Legions Skiløperbataljon. Propaganda painting by Birger Cranner showing soldiers in German uniforms with Norwegian national flags, skiing downhill with sled dogs.
The Norwegian Legion (Norwegian: Den Norske Legion) was a Norwegian collaborationist formation of the Waffen-SS during World War II. It was formed in German-occupied Norway on 29 June 1941, in support of the war aims of Nazi Germany. The unit was disbanded in 1943.
Photo taken at the Hjemmefrontmuseet Rakkestad, a local World War II museum in Rakkestad, Norway, exhibiting 4000 items related to the German occupation of Norway 1940 – 1945, Norwegian, German, and Allied military forces, the Norwegian resistance movement and everyday life during the war, etc.


Norsk bokmål: Rekrutteringsplakat for den planlagte «Skiløperbataljon» i Den norske legion (SS-Freiwilligen-Legion Norwegen), en Waffen-SS-avdeling 1941–43 av norske frivillige soldater som kjempet på tysk side på østfronten under andre verdenskrig. Propagandaillustrasjon av skiløpersoldater i tyskinspirert uniform sammen med sledehunder i vinterlandskap. Teksten på plakaten er: Vi Seirer! Bli med Den Norske Legions Skiløperbataljon. Maleri av illustratøren Birger Cranner (1902–45). Plakaten kom i 1941.
Foto fra Hjemmefrontmuseet Rakkestad, et lokalt krigshistorisk museum som viser rundt 4000 gjenstander tilknyttet krigen i Norge og den tyske okkupasjonen av landet 1940–45.
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Birger Cranner, Norwegian illustrator 1902 – 1945
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