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English: A Ordnungspolizei WW2 police officer's dress parade uniform with:
  • 8-button Waffenrock (tunic) lined with green woven piping, patch pockets, turned back cuffs, etc. Standard Waffenrock (service tunic) of the paramilitary Ordnungspolizei ("order Police", OrPo, grüne Polizei, "green police"). Grey-green tunic with contrasting dark brown collar and cuff facings, turn-back cuffs with two buttons, two pleated patch breast pockets and two unpleated skirt pockets, all with three-point flaps fastened with single aluminium buttons, and decorative double fly at back.
  • Litzen (enlisted collar tabs) showing Waffenfarbe, the branch of service colour. In addition to collar and shoulder rank insignia, Ordnungspolizei also wore the wreathed police eagle on the upper left sleeve. The collar patch and shoulderboards were backed, and the sleeve eagle (below the rank of Leutnant) embroidered, in Truppenfarbe, a color-code which indicated the branch of police: green for Schutzpolizei (protection police) and police general officers, wine-red for Gemeindepolizei (municipal protection police), orange for rural Gendarmerie, carmine-red for fire brigades, gold for maritime police, light grey for administrative police.
  • Rank insignia for Oberfeldartz ("field doctor") on Schulterstücke (shoulder boards)
  • Achselschnur / Paradefangschnur / Adjutantenschnur/ (aiguillettes)
  • Embroidered Polizei Reichsadler (wreathead imperial eagle with swastika as national police emblem) on left sleeve
  • 1st pattern brocade dress belt with circular police officer’s belt buckle with Gott mit uns and swastika
  • Police officer’s Degen (sword) with police emblem on the grip and SS runes on the tassel.

The sword belonged to Kurt Stage, the leader of the Gestapo in Harstad in German occupied Norway during World War 2.

The parade mounted decorations and awards are (from left to right):
0. Ordensband (ribbon) of the Medaille Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42 (Ostmedaille, Eastern Front Medal, «Østfrontmemdaljen»)
1. Eisernes Kreuz 1914 2. Klasse (EK-2) (Iron Cross, «Jernkorset»)
2. Ehrenkreuz des Weltkrieges 1914/1918 mit Schwertern (The Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918, «Æreskorset»)
3. Dienstauszeichnung 2.Klasse 1913 für 12 Jahre (Deutsches Reich / Preussen "Treue Dienste bei der Fahne") (Long Service Award)
4. Polizei-Dienstauszeichnung (1938) in Gold (25 Jahre) "Für Treue Dienste in der Polizei (Police Long Service Award, «Polititjenestemedaljen»)
 5. Magyar Háborús Emlékérem / Ungarische Weltkriegs-Erinnerungsmedaille (Hungarian War Commemorative Medal for World War I, instituted1929)
6. Медал за участие в Европейската война (1915-1918) / Kriegserinnerungsmedaille 1915/1918 ("Medal for participation in the European War", Bulgarian Commemorative War Service Medal 1915-18)
7. Kriegsverdienstkreuz (1939) II. Klasse mit Schwertern (KVK) (War Merit Cross second class bronze with swords, «Krigsfortjenestekorset»)

The Ordnungspolizei was the nationalized order police in Nazi Germany, also called ORPO or grüne Polizei (green police), organized under the Chief of Police, Heinrich Himmler.

(On the wall is seen a part of a collaborationist recruitment poster designed/painted by Harald Damsleth: "Med Waffen-SS og Den norske legion mot den felles fiende... mot bolsjevismen")

Photo taken on May 8th, 2019 at Lofoten War Memorial Museum ("Lofoten Krigsminnemuseum") in Svolvær, Norway. The museum exhibits uniforms, smaller items, etc. from World War II and the German occupation of Norway 1940–1945.
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