File:WWII Nazi Germany Waffen-SS officer uniform Obersturmbannführer Freikorps Danmark cuff title Danish volunteer Kasket og jakke tilhørt Neergaard-Jacobsen, kommandør for Regiment Danmarks 3. Bataillon FHM-317302 Nationalmuseet Denmar.jpg

English: Waffen-SS officer uniform belonged to Neergaard-Jacobsen, the Danish commander of Regiment Denmark's 3rd Battalion during World War II; The Free Corps Denmark (Danish: Frikorps Danmark), a Danish SS Germanic volunteer corps, was withdrawn from the front line in April 1943 and formally disbanded on 6 May 1943. It was reformed as SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 24 "Danmark" and integrated into the recently formed 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland. Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the paramilitary SS organisation of Nazi Germany.

• Officer's SS visor cap (German: Schirmmütze):
  • High front, saddle shaped crown
  • Silver SS style eagle-and-swastika (Hoheitszeichen, 'national emlem', Hoheitsadler, 'national eagle', Mützenadler, 'cap eagle', Hakenkreuzadler, 'swastika eagle'), SS' version of the Nazi Party emblem adopted as national emblem of Nazi Germany, featuring an art deco Reichsadler (German imperial eagle) 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 Regiment of Prussia
  • Officer's chin strap cord in silver
  • Piping in corps colour (Waffenfarbe); white colour indicating 'motorized infantry' (Panzergrenadieren)
• Field tunic (Feldbluse, field blouse) with open collar (geöffnet) and four pleated patch pockets with buttoned flaps
  • SS-Sturmbannführer rank insignia on left collar tab (Kragenspiegel) and shoulder boards (Schulterstücke)
  • SS runes (Siegrunen) insignia on right collar tab
  • SS style 'arm eagle' (SS Hoheitszeichen, Ärmelhoheitsabzeichen, 'national emblem for the sleeve', Ärmeladler, 'sleeve eagle', Ärmelvogel, 'sleeve bird'), a woven 'eagle-and-swastika' patch on left sleeve (Hoheitsabzeichen, linker Oberarm, oberhalb Rottenführer-Winkel). In March 1936, Hitler approved a new art deco imperial eagle (Reichsadler) with staggered wingtips for the SS, which was worn through the end of the war as a cap badge and on the sleeve.
  • 'Danmark' and 'Freikorps Danmark' on cuff titles/bands (Ärmelstreifen/-bänder)
• German military decorations and awards on chest:
  • Ribbon (Ordensband) in second button hole: Iron Cross 2nd Class (Eisernes Kreuz, EK, II. Klasse)
  • WW2 Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz)
  • Wound badge (Verwundetenabzeichen) in black (3rd class, representing Iron), for those wounded once or twice by hostile action (including air raids)
  • Infantry Assault Badge (Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen)
• Belt and SS officer buckle adopted 1932, with SS motto Unser Ehre heisst Treue
• M42 trousers; A new design of field trousers was introduced in 1942, replacing the old World War I style straight legged Langhosen. These were based on the gebirgsjäger model of trousers, designed to be worn with low boots and gaiters, which began replacing jackboots in 1941.
• gaiters/anklets
• Ankle boots (Schnürschuhe, 'lace-up shoes'); From 1941 Schnürschuhe were authorized for combat units as well, and the only footgear issued to new recruits; by 1943 their wear had become universal to all German Wehrmacht.

See Foreign Legions Of The Third Reich Vol. 1 by David Littlejohn (1987), pages 71–113, for detailed descriptions of uniforms and insignia of the pro-Nazi organizations and collaborationist military units in German-occupied Denmark during the Second World War, such as

• D.N.S.A.P. (Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Arbejderparti, National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark)
• S.A., Storm Afdelinger, Storm Troopers
• N.S.U., Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Ungdom, National Socialist Youth
• L.A.T., Landsarbejdstjenesten, National Labour Service
• Nordland Regiment
• Frikorps Danmark (Freikorps Danmark), Free Corps Denmark 1941–43
• Nordland Division
• Schalburgkorpset, Germansk Korps, SS-Schalburgkorps 1943–45)
• HiPo-korpset, HIPO Corps Hilfpolizei, Efterretningstjenesten E.T. Intelligence Service, police
• G.S.D., Germanische Sturmbann Dänemark