File:WW2 German Waffen-SS Uniform Norwegian volunteer Front fighter frontkjemper ca 1943 23. SS-Panzergrenader-regiment "Norge" armflag sleeve badge cuff title Ärmelband etc Troms Forsvarsmuseum Military Museum Norway 2022 DSC05544.jpg

English: Photo taken at the Troms Forsvarsmuseum ("Troms Armed Forces Museum, Troms Defence Museum"), a military history museum in Setermoen in Northern Norway:

• Waffen-SS field uniform as worn by a "front fighter" (Norwegian: frontkjemper), a Norwegian volunteer serving as a combat soldier in a collaborationist formation of the Waffen-SS, a part of the armed forces of Nazi Germany in World War II, circa 1943:
  • Badges and insignia on the left sleeve of the tunic (Fledbluse):
    • Norwegian SS armflag, Waffen-SS version of the national flag of Norway on cloth patch
    • "Norge" on cuff title (Ärmelstreife,Ärmelband) (formation BeVo EM/NCO's cuff band 1943) for the SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 23 „Norge“, part of the | (11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division „Nordland“), a Waffen-SS division recruited from foreign volunteers and conscripts and saw action, as part of Army Group North, in the Independent State of Croatia and on the Eastern Front during World War II

Waffen-SS was the military branch of the Nazi Party's SS (Schutzstaffel) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both occupied and unoccupied countries. Waffen-SS wore a variation of the field-grey (grey-green) (feldgrau) army uniform with SS insignia. The majority of SS personnel wore a variation of the Waffen-SS uniform or the grey-green SS service tunic.