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English: Uniform cap belonged to a Norwegian collaborantionist volunteer with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer 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')
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 som har tilhørt en norsk frivillig («frontkjemper») med graden SS-Untersturmführer (fenrik) i Waffen-SS under den tyske okkupasjonen av Norge under andre verdenskrig. Høyluea har hakekorsørn og SS' hodeskallemerke. Foto fra utstilling i Forsvarsmuseet på Akershus festningsområde i Oslo.
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