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English: Photo taken in the "Gestapo room/office" 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:
  • Misc. German World War II uniform items and equipment used by the Schutzstaffel (SS) of the Nazi Party NSDAP, etc.:
    • SS red swastika armband (Hakenkreuzarmbinde), with a black stripe along the edges. (Without the red swastika armband, its place on the left uniform sleeve was taken by an SS style eagle-and-swastika patch.)
    • Leather baton used as torture instrument by Gestapo in Oslo, Norway
    • Die Deutsche Polizei – Taschenkalender für die Schutzpolizei des Reiches und der Gemeinden und die Verwaltungspolizei, wartime German pocket calendar book
  • Mannequin dressed in a Feldgendarm uniform of the Feldgendarmerie, the German Military Police part of the Ordnungstruppen within the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany 1933–1945:
    • Standard Waffenrock (military tunic) of the paramilitary Ordnungspolizei ("order Police", OrPo, grüne Polizei, "green police"). 8-button closed-collar grey-green service tunic (Dienstrock) 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.
    • Bright ‘police-green’ Truppenfarbe indicating the branch of Schutzpolizei (protection police). The collar patches and shoulderboards on OrPo tunics were backed, and the sleeve eagle (below the rank of Leutnant) was embroidered (except for a black swastika), in the Truppenfarbe, a colour code equivalent to the military Waffenfarbe indicating the police branch. Tunics and caps also had piping (Paspelierung) in these branch colours.
    • Rank insignia of Meister on shoulder straps (Schulterklappen). Diagonal interwoven central cords, facing colour and silver/chevron fleck, outer cords silverchevron fleck.
    • Collar patches/tabs (Kragenspiegel) with silvergrey thread Litzen, the traditional German Army "Guard lace" bars for all enlisted ranks, woven on a base of the Truppenfarbe colour identifying the wearer’s branch.
    • Polizei Ärmeladler, police type sleeve eagle cloth patch. Enlisted ranks wore a machine-embroidered Polizeiadler, "police eagle", Policestyle national emblem of a wreathed Nazi eagle-and-swastika (Hoheitsabzeichen, Reichsadler mit Hakenkreuz) on the left upper sleeve. This was in the Truppenfarbe for their branch, except for a black swastika, and worked on a backing of their uniform colour.
    • Ribbons (Ordensband) of the Iron Cross and the Eastern Front Medal (Medaille Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42 or Ostmedaille) on ribbon bar over breast pocket
    • DRL (Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen) sport badge (Deutsches Reichssportabzeichen, German National Sports Badge)
    • SS cloth badge for SS members on tunic (SS runes under the chest pocket indicates the man as w fullmember of the SS). Members of the German Police who were also members of the Schutzstaffel were authorized to display a set of embroidered SS-runes (Sig- oder Siegrunen, doppelte Siegrune) low on the left breast, in silver-grey or silver on a uniform-coloured backing.
    • Feldgendarmerie gorget (Ringkragen, Brustschild, metallene Plakette). Crescent shaped white metal gorget suspended on a neck chain, having an luminous yellow emblem of an eagle with outstretched wings clasping a circular oak leaf wreath containing a swastika, above a dark grey banner scroll with the inscription Feldgendarmerie in luminous yellow reading across, and two round plates in yellow at either upper point of the base plate forming part of the retaining hooks holding the chain on the reverse. (Silberfarbener Schild aus Eisenblech mit aufgelegtem Hoheitsadler und Schriftbandeau "Feldgendarmerie", mit Leuchtfarbe überzogen ebenso die leicht gekörnten Knöpfe. Rückseite mit feldgrauem Tuchstoff bezogen, Halteklammern berieben in Eisen. Eiserne Gliederkette.)
    • Sam Browne crossbelt| (Leibriemen mit Schultergurt, braunes Leder)
    • Police belt buckle (Koppelschloß, Gürtelschnalle) decorated with Nazi swastika and Gott mit uns inscription. The rectangular silver-coloured buckle resembled that of the Army, but in place of the national emblem the wreath and motto ‘Gott Mit Uns’ surrounded a large ‘mobile’ swastika.
www.grenadier352nd.com/html_pages/feldgendarmerie: The primary function of the German Field Police was traffic control and orderly direction of both soldiers and materials with regard to regulations and discipline. This was especially so with large troop movements, bad conditions and heavy supply route traffic. The Feldgendarmerie were known as 'Kettenhunde', "chained dogs". As a military organization they had received full infantry training and also had extensive police powers.
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