File:Germanske SS Norge (WW2 Norwegian SS volunteers) Uniform 1942. Ski cap Bergmütze Totenkopf insignia Sunwheel swastika collar tab NS pin awards etc Hjemmefrontmuseet Rakkestad (local WW2 museum Norway) 2021-06-20 IMG 6419.jpg

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English: Uniform of Germanske SS Norge (GSSN), "Norwegian General SS", a paramilitary organization established in German occupied Norway during World War II in July 1942. The unit was as a Norwegian branch of the Germanic-SS and a sub organization of Vidkun Quisling's collaborationist fascist party National Union (Nasjonal Samling, NS).
  • The GSSN men were issued black uniforms of the Allgemeine SS, but their collars had a sunwheel swastika instead of the SS-runes (doppelte Siegrune), and the "GSSN Raven" on the left sleeve instead of the German eagle-and-swastika (SS Ärmeladler) as well as Germanske SS Norge on a cuff title (Ärmelband)
  • Black ski cap (peaked field cap) with SS' skull and crossbones/death's head (Totenkopf) cap insignia
  • Shoulder strap on right shoulder of tunic/jacket
  • Brown shirt, black tie
  • Crossbelt
  • Eagle-and-suncross lapel pin of Norwegian nazi party Nasjonal Samling (NS)
  • Suncross-and-swords emblem of the Hirden, paramilitary unit of Nasjonal Samling
etc.

Photo of a mannequin in the Hjemmefrontmuseet Rakkestad, a local World War II museum in Rakkestad, Norway, exhibiting 4000 objects related to the time period.

SS Regalia by Robin Lumsden 1995:

In July 1942. many veterans returned from the east to form the new Germanske-SS Norge, which abandoned all Rikshird associations, A new oath of allegiance was taken to Hitler, and the Germaninspired motto 'Min aere er troskap' ('My Honor is Loyalty') was adopted. The uniform of the Germanske-SS Norge was all black except for a brown shirt. It comprised a ski-cap (peaked caps were never worn by the Norwegian SS), an open-neeked tunic, ski trousers and mountain boots. An eagle holding a sun cross in silver and black was worn on the left sleeve above a cuff title bearing the legend 'Germanske-SS Norge'. Rank insignia appeared on lhe left collar patch with a silver sun wheel swastika on the right patch. SS runes on a black diamond wore sported on the right upper arm.
No Germanic-SS unit in Norway attained sufficient size to be regarded as a Standarte. The largest that could he mustered was a Stormbann or battalion, of which there were 12 in various parts of the country. Most were consistently under strength. The concept of patron members was introduced into Norway as in the other Germanic countries, and these so-called Støttende Medlemmer were entitled to wear a small oval badge in black enamel, with silver SS runes and the letters 'SM'. Official figures published in Germaneren, the Norwegian SS newspaper, gave the strength of the Germanic-SS in Norway as 1250 in September 1944. Of these, 330 were on combat duty with the Waffen-SS, and 750 were in police units, leaving only 160 Norwegians in the active Germanic-SS. At the same time, there were 3500 patron members.


Norsk bokmål: Uniform for Germanske SS Norge (GSSN), en tysk troppeenhet av norske frivillige som ble etablert i Norge under andre verdenskrig i juli 1942. Organisasjonen var underlagt det tyske nazistpartiets Germanske-SS, men også tilknyttet Quislings fascistparti Nasjonal Samling (NS).
  • Utenlandske frivillige i Germanische-SS ble utstyrt med tyske SS-uniformer. Medlemmene i GSSN fikk Allgemeine-SS' avlagte, svarte uniformer fra 1930-tallet, men SS-runene på kragespeilet på høyre jakkeoppslag ble byttet ut med et «solhjul-symbol», en blanding av NS' solkors og nazistenes hakekors. Dessuten ble SS' tyske hakekorsørn på venstre erme byttet ut med et eget ravnemerke med solkors (NS' «solørn»), og samme jakkeerme hadde båndstripe med teksten «Germanske SS Norge».
  • NS Årbok 1944: Germ. SS. Norge Sort uniform med enkeltspent jakke. Sølvknapper. Klaff på høyre skulder, flettet i sølv og sort. Skibenklær. Germ. SS Norges speiler på jakkeoppslagene. Solørnen i sølv på venstre arm. Bløt skilue. Brun skjorte med sort slips.
Foto fra utstillingene i Hjemmefrontmuseet Rakkestad, et lokalt krigshistorisk museum som viser rundt 4000 gjenstander fra krigen og den tyske okkupasjonen av landet 1940–45.
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