File:Arquebus Krigshistorisk Museum Norway. WW2 Allied Victory in Europe display. Uniforms weapons equipment German Waffen-SS soldier StG44 MG-42 Machine Gun Deutscher Volkssturm Panzerfaust Hitlerjugend Hitler bust photos etc (2020) DSC0828.jpg

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English: Arquebus War History Museum (Arquebus Krigshistorisk Museum) in Førre, Norway: The exhibition 'WWII Allied Victory in Europe 1945', opened in 2005 by Tom Wheatcroft (1922–2009), a British war veteran and collector of racing cars and German military vehicles. The exhibition includes mannequins dressed in military uniforms, displayed in glass cases showcasing weapons, equipment, ammunition, awards, debris, historical photos, and more. The collaboration with Tom Wheatcroft and his son Kevin Wheatcroft also includes 'The Battle of Berlin', a large diorama featuring a multitude of exhibition figures in German and Russian uniforms, weaponry, military equipment, and two Russian tanks in a city environment characterized by ruins, bricks and debris.

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  • German Volkssturm soldier
    • Camouflage painted steel helmet (Stahlhelm) with a bread bag strap for attaching foliage for camouflage
    • Double breasted overcoat/greatcoat (Mantel) with rank insignia of Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) on shoulder straps
    • Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht armband on the left arm
    • Panzerfaust, a German inexpensive recoilless single-shot man-portable anti-tank weapon of World War II
  • German MG 34 general purpose machine gun mounted on a tripod (deutsches MG34 Allzweck-Maschinengewehr, montiert auf einem Dreibein)
  • Oversized Nazi propaganda portrait bust of Adolf Hitler
  • Member of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, HJ), the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany before and during World War II (1926–1945)
    • Black peaked ski cap with HJ emblem (a black mobile swastika central to a red diamond on a white background)
    • Light brown/tan shirt/blouse with pleated breast pockets; Shoulder straps with HJ rank insignia of Scharführer; Triangle shaped regional badge on upper left sleeve (das Traditions-Arm-Dreieck der Hitler-Jugend war eine Sonderform des Gebietsdreiecks/Armdreiecks), with Süd-Wurtemberg;
    • Rolled black neckerchief/scarf secured with a brown woggle/slider (HJ Halstuch Klöppel), over the collar
    • Hitler Youth cloth brassard (swastika armband). Similar to the HJ flag, the armband has a white stripe on red and a black swastika on the white HJ diamond.
    • Hitler Youth belt buckle with the HJ eagle clutching the HJ diamond with a swastika in its talons in the center. The front reads Blut und Ehre ("Blood and Honour").
    • Hitler Youth knife. Full members of the HJ would receive a knife upon enrollment, with the motto "Blood and Honour" engraved upon it.
  • Swastika flag of the Hitler Youth; The official Hitler Youth emblem consists of a black mobile swastika above a white square diamond surrounded by alternating white and red quadrants all within a rhomboid shaped diamond.
  • Historical photographs of Hitler Youth boys receiving training in the use of Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons, and a smiling Hitler alongside HJ leader Artur Axmann encouraging boys for a final defensive effort in 1945.
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