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English: Glass case displaying miscellanous WW2 German uniform items and other objects from World War II in Norway:
  • On upper shelf and wall:
    • German Navy (Kriegsmarine) NCO's career/rating (rank and trade) sleeve insignia (Dienstgradabzeichen) with anchor symbols (on the wall)
    • Machine embroidered German Navy eagle in yellow on a very dark blue backing, etc. The Nazi eagle became the only national symbol in 1935; the national coat of arms featured an art deco style German imperial eagle (Reichsadler) clutching a wreathed swastika. The uniform coats/tunics of the Wehrmacht had the new national emblem as a "breast eagle" (Brustadler), a cloth insignia over the chest pocket on the right hand side. The German Navy (Kriegsmarine) wore this eagle in yellow/gold, the German Army (Heer) in white/silver.
    • Kriegsmarine admiral's car pennant, with a Kriegsmarine eagle embroidered with gold and dark brown threads on a dark blue background, and trimmed along the edges with gold tresse displaying swastikas. The pennant was taken as a trophy from the German Kommandant at Måløy during Operation Archery (the Måløy Raid), a British Combined Operations raid during World War II against German positions on the island of Vågsøy, Norway, on 27 December 1941.
    • Nazi Germany War Flag (Reichskriegsflagge)
    • Abtei-Likör Wehrmacht Marketenderware
    • Nazi style Christmas ornaments (Weihnachtsbaumschmuck). In Nazi Germany, attempts were made to bring the traditional German celebration of Christmas in line with Nazi ideology.
      • SS Frontbaum ('SS battlefront tree'), a small artificial tabletop Christmas tree from the Third Reich period, produced for German front soldiers in World War II, with Nazi symbols, i.e. baulbes decorated with swastikas, SS runes (and the text Dich ruft die SS, 'SS is calling you'), the German Reich's national colours red, white and black, etc.
      • Bigger baulbe with Prussian iron cross and portrait of Hitler
      • Tree-topper.
    • Des Führers Kampf in Norwegen miniature booklet ca. 1941. Miniature "button book" printed by the Nazi German government and given as a token gift to those who had donated to the Zweites Kriegshilfswerk für das deutsche rote Kreuz. The booklet could be worn on coat buttons as a sign that the wearer had donated to the charity.
    • Grammophone record: Kriegsweihnacht 1941. Die deutsche Arbeitsfront (N. S. Gemeinschaft 'Kraft durch Freude') Schallplatten - Spende f. d. deutsche Wehrmacht: Wenn der Toni mit der Vroni – Telefunkenplatte
  • Middle shelf:
    • Grammophone record
    • German Navy (Kriegsmarine) sleeve badges
    • German Navy Imperial Eagle (Reichsadler) uniform badges, for visor cap and tunics
    • Sailor cap from Z2 Georg Thiele 1940
    • Narvik Shield decoration
    • Des führers Kampf zur See miniature booklet
    • Platzkarte Narvik Heimat u zurück
etc.
  • Lower shelf:
    • Schutzstaffel (SS) officer field cap (Feldmütze) with fold-down scallops to the front and side
    • Germany Army (Wehrmacht's Heer) General's field cap (side cap) with inverted V-shaped soutache
    • Des Führers Kampf im Osten 3 miniature booklet
    • Collar patches with rank insignia of a general (with elaborate Arabeske decoration)
    • Germany Army Generalmajor Brigadier general's shoulder board (epaulette) with golden braided cords
    • Cap badges: National emblem (Imperial eagle Reichsadler of Nazi Germany) and cap device with cockade (Mützenkranz, Kokarde)
    • Germany Army service cap: peaked visor cap (Schirmmütze)
    • German Army dagger
    • M. Hohner Wenn wir marschieren harmonica (Mundharmonika)
    • Musical instrument box with In der Heimat da gibt's ein Wiedersehn
    • Tobacco pipes mounted for sale to soldiers
    • Metal cap eagle emblems from F.W. Assmann, a button and buckle factory in Lüdenscheid
    • Luger pistol
etc.
Photo taken on May 8, 2019 at the Lofoten War Memorial Museum (Lofoten Krigsminnemuseum) in Svolvær, Norway. The museum exhibits uniforms, militaria, memorabilia, smaller items, etc. related to World War II, the German occupation of Norway 1940 – 1945, and the Third Reich era.
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    Car pennant for admirals of the Kriegsmarine
  • An Bord eines Minensuchbootes, Marinesoldat am Schreibtisch (with Narvik Shield)
    An Bord eines Minensuchbootes, Marinesoldat am Schreibtisch (with Narvik Shield)
  • German Navy (Kriegsmarine) uniforms and insignia chart
    German Navy (Kriegsmarine) uniforms and insignia chart


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