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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 and the German occupation of Norway 1940 – 1945:
  • Mannequin dressed in uniform of a tank crewman in the Panzertruppen of Wehrmacht Heer, the army of Nazi Germany:
    • Side cap/garrison cap (Schiffchen) with fold-down scallops to the front and side, Wehrmacht eagle, round national cockade, and upside-down V shaped soutache in Waffenfarbe (cord used on caps to depict the corps or type of unit the wearer belongs to)
    • Turtleneck jersey
    • Wrapper jacket (Panzer Feldjacken)
      • Wehrmacht rank insignia of sergeant (Unteroffizier) on shoulder straps:
      • Skull and crossbones symbol (Totenkopf) for tank troops, on gorget tabs (Kragenspiegel, collar patches). In Nazi Germany the Totenkopf was used as cap badge of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and unit insignia of the Panzer forces of the German army and air force.
      • Piping (Paspel, trimming) in rose-pink corps colour (rosa Waffenfarbe) indicating Panzerwaffe, the panzer (tank) and motorized forces of the German army
      • National Reichsadler ("German imperial eagle") emblem as a chest eagle (Brustadler) cloth patch on right breast
    • Leather waist-belt and metal belt buckle (Koppelschloss) with Wehrmachtadler ("armed forces eagle", the military version of the national nazi eagle-and-swastika emblem) and motto Gott mit uns ('God With Us')
    • Military decorations:
    • Schützenschnur, lanyard with German badge of marksmanship
  • Misc. militaria, memorabilia and war time items connected to the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany etc.:
    • German WWII shooting award wall plaque
      • Wooden bullseye target with bullet holes and a handmade painting of a German tank (Panzerkampfwagen)
      • Given to the winner of a marksmanship competition with his name painted onto it, as a shooting trophy/prize and commemorative plaque/memorabilia
      • Text in German: Gewonnen von Herrn Hauptmann Riedl! 1942, Gegeben von Kradsctz.-Ers.-Batl.-7 ("Won by Captain Riedl! 1942, given by Kradschützen-Ersatz-Bataillon 7", a replacement army tank unit of The German army)
    • Pennant (Wimpel, Kraftwagenstander) from a German WWII tank (Panzer, Kampffahrzeug) of the Panzerwaffe forces fighting on the Eastern Front during World War II, with a handmade painting of a white, running skeleton on a black, triangle shaped cloth
    • Miniature scale model of German WWII tank (Panzer)
    • Tobakk 1944 Hjemmeavlet Hurtigfermentert, Norwegian "home grown" WWII substitute tobacco from Lloyd Tobakkfabrikk, Stavanger, label with drawing of a Sami man riding in a pulk sled driven by a reindeer
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