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English: From the exhibitions at Lofoten War Memorial Museum ("Lofoten Krigsminnemuseum") in Svolvær, Norway:

Propaganda items of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and its organizations and memorabilia and collectibles from Nazi Germany in the 1930s

• Black service ad parade uniform (Dienst- und Paradeanzug) of the Allgemeine SS (Schutzstaffel), the major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, designed by Diebitsch and Heck in 1932:
  • Peaked visor cap (Schirmmütze), high-fronted, saddle shaped crown
    • SS' versions of the national Hoheitszeichen/Hoheitsadler insignia (German imperial and Nazi Party eagle-and-swastika)
    • SS' skull-and-crossbones emblem (Totenkopf) adopted from the Totenkopfhusaren, the 5th Hussar/Life-Guard Cavalry Regiment of Prussia
  • Black necktie and white shirt (replacing the originally brown shirt)
  • Rank insignia of SS-Sturmbannführer on left collar tab/gorget patch (Kragenspiegel), SS runes on the right, and shoulder strap (Schulterklappe) only on the right shoulder of the tunic
  • Odal rune on tunic sleeve diamond as insignia for members of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS, RuSHA)
  • Reichsführung-SS ("SS national leadership") cuff title/cuffband (Ärmelstreife) on lower left sleeve
  • Red party armband/armlet with swastika (Hakenkreuzarmbinde, Kampfbinde) edged with black stripes indicating "member of the SS"
  • Golden Party Badge Enamel NSDAP membership pin (Golden Party Badge, Goldenes Parteiabzeichen) on left breast pocket of tunic
  • Sam Browne belt, leather waist-belt with shoulder strap and belt buckle decorated with stylized "party eagle" (eagle-and-swastika headed towards its left wing) and SS motto Meine Ehre heist Treue ("My honour is named loyalty")
  • Riding breeches (Breecheshosen, Reithosen, Stiefelhosen), calf-length riding trousers with extra width in the thigh area
  • Knee-high jackboots (Schaftstiefeln)

etc.

• Swing tanzen verboten; Reichskulturkammer, fake wall sign. Though American inspired swing dance was prohibited by the Nazis, this sign is a pastich designed in the 1970s.
• Stahlhelm_Bundesmarsch gramophone recording of march played by the SS-Musikzug Der SS-Standarte 42 1933

• Business card of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler
• German Nazi propaganda Christmas baulbe, decorated with the Iron Cross and a portrait of SS-leader Himmler
• Key and plate from Kehlsteinhaus, a Nazi-constructed building erected atop the summit of the Kehlstein near the town of Berchtesgaden, used exclusively by members of the Nazi Party for government and social meetings

• Propaganda photographs in colour by Hugo Jager:
  • Hitler and parliament members in the Reichstag, Kroll Opera House, Berlin 1939
  • Nazi "brownshirts" marching with torches in a torchlight parade in the 1930s
  • Cheering crowds at the Nuremberg rally (Nazi Party Congress) in 1938 greeting Hitler with the "Nazi salute"

• Three German Nazi propaganda children's books:
  • Hermine Morgenroth and Maria Schmidt: Kinder, was wisst Ihr vom Führer?' Franz Schneider Verlag, Leipzig, 1933. Cover illustration of a smiling Hitler and small children, by Illustrator Willi (W.E.M.) Engelhardt (1900 - 1983)
  • Karl Köster: Die Fahnen wehen!, Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl, Stuttgart, 1935. Illustration of 'lads' (Pimpfe) in uniforms of the Deutsche Jungvolk (for boys 10 – 14) with Sig rune banner, by Willy Planck (1870 – 1956)
  • Helga Knoepke-Joest: Ulla, ein Hitlermädel, Franz Schneider Verlag, Leipzig, 1933. Illustration of a girl in uniform of the Jungmädelbund (for girls 10 – 14) and Hitlerjugend flags, by iIllustrator Willi Engelhardt.

• Musical instruments for paramilitary and ceremonial fanfare bands and drum corpses (Tambourkorps, Spielmannszüge, Fanfarenzüge) of the Nazi Party:
  • Fanfare trumpet or herald trumpet (Fanfaretrompete, Signalhorn) with the SS bolts runic symbol on trumpet flag/banner (Fanfarentuch, Fanfarenflagge)
  • Trumpet with the swastika emblem of the Hitler Youth on flag/banner
  • Drum majors' mace with red-white cord and tassels (Tambourstab mit weiß-roter Kordel und Quasten)
  • Hitler Youth double-head drum (Landsknechtstrommel, Marschtrommel) with drumsticks and leather carrying strap.

• Miniature scale model of Adolf Hitler's Mercedes six wheel staff parade car, with painted figurines of Hitler and SS staff men (modern day toy)
• Olympic Summer Games in Berlin 1936 pennant
• Reichsparteitag, a commemorative/souvenir pennant (Wimpel) from the Nuremberg Rally (national Nazi Party congress) 1938

• Copies of 5 water colour paintings allegedly made by Adolf Hitler; a popular tourist motive from Austria (Pfandlhof, Ob. Bayern) and four Disney animation characters (Pinocchio from the animated movie and three of the dwarfs from Snow White)

etc.

Photo taken on 2019-05-08