File:WW2 German Waffen-SS Uniform Norwegian volunteer Front fighter frontkjemper ca 1943 SS-Untersturmführer 23. SS-Panzergrenader-regiment "Norge" mannequin glass display equipment etc Troms Forsvarsmuseum Military Museum Norway 2022 IMG.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:
  • German style steel helmet (Stahlhelm) with chin-strap, air vents and helmet decal on right side with SS bolts/runes (doppelte Siegrunen)
  • Field tunic/jacket (Feldbluse ) with four pleated patch pockets, etc.
  • Right collar tab/gorget patch (Kragenspiegel, Kragenpatte) with SS' runic emblem
  • Left collar tab and shoulder straps (Schulterklappen) showing rank insignia of a SS-Untersturmführer
  • Badges and insignia on the left sleeve of the tunic:
    • Silver bullion SS style 'arm eagle' (SS Hoheitszeichen, Ärmeladler,, 'sleeve eagle' ) for SS officers, a woven/embroidered "eagle-and-swastika" patch on left sleeve. 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.
    • 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
  • Decorations, awards, etc. on chest:
    • Ribbon for Iron Cross 2nd Class (Eisernes Kreuz II) worn in the second buttonhole of the tunic
    • Small pin with the national flag of Norway
    • Frontkjempermerket, a Norwegian military badge/decoration awarded from 1943 to a frontkjemper ("Frontfighter", Norwegian volunteers in the German Waffen-SS)
  • Leather belt with two prong buckle
  • Pistol holster
  • Breeches/trousers with gaiters/anklets and ankle boots
  • Mannequin dressed in uniform on display in glass case
• Misc. military equipment and other items left behind in Northern Norway by the German armed forces in occupied Norway 1940 – 1945

etc.

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.