Norwegian NS Nasjonal Samling photos

[Edgar Alcidi]

I was lucky enough to get these...any idea where and when?

[Edgar Alcidi]

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[Edgar Alcidi]

the last one

[Simon O.]

Two men seem to be wearing black panzer uniforms, that would put the photos in southern norway to start with.

I'll ask in a Norwegian forum

[Edgar Alcidi]

Yes, they are definitely Panzer uniforms. In another shot some Pioniere are wearing the Krimschild. So not early than winter 1942. Thx again for your help.

[Tor]

A better picture of the church or chapel in the back would definitely help you pinpointing the place. Else there are some other things to note in the picture. The church or chappel is surrounded with houses, and there are some hills in the background. It is mostly birch trees to see. Can't figure out if its pine or spruce in the background. Also a upscaled photo of the pins one of the hird boys are wearing will help.

[Edgar Alcidi]

A better picture of the church or chapel in the back would definitely help you pinpointing the place. Else there are some other things to note in the picture. The church or chappel is surrounded with houses, and there are some hills in the background. It is mostly birch trees to see. Can't figure out if its pine or spruce in the background. Also a upscaled photo of the pins one of the hird boys are wearing will help.

Ok, I will try to show more details soon. Thanks again for your help.

[Simon O.]

Someone on one of the Norwegian forums posted a different photo of the cemetery and it shows a lake or fjord to the right as you look towards the chapel, another photo in the same group shows a close up of a couple of the graves and those men are now buried at Oslo alfaset so that combined with the two men in panzer uniform has me thinking somewhere to the North of Oslo where much of panzer division Norwegen\25 Pz.Div. was based.

[Tor]

Wich forum? I have a book with all churches in Norway, so it should be easy to identify. Nearly half of the chapels should also be there.

[Simon O.]

1940.no Tor

[Edgar Alcidi]

Someone on one of the Norwegian forums posted a different photo of the cemetery and it shows a lake or fjord to the right as you look towards the chapel, another photo in the same group shows a close up of a couple of the graves and those men are now buried at Oslo alfaset so that combined with the two men in panzer uniform has me thinking somewhere to the North of Oslo where much of panzer division Norwegen\25 Pz.Div. was based.

I think that Simon is right. I assume that the guys with Krimschild are members of the Pionier Btl 744. This unit was renamed Panzer Pionier Btl. 87 (around 1943) and attached to the 25th Pz.Div. This would perfectly fits.

[Simon O.]

Well spotted! We are closing in now.

[Edgar Alcidi]

Here the other photos from the lot

[Simon O.]

The mystery is solved, they photos are taken at Gjøvik, this is where Panzer Pionier Btl.87 was based in 1943.

Speculation here but as this seems to be a memorial parade rather than a burial and given the obvious time of year as spring, it could be this is 9th April 1943, commemorating the anniversary of the invasion.

[unglagf]

thank you for showing us this great pictures.

i know one of the NSUF "unghird" shown.

so i asked him, and this is was he told me:

in 1943, a norwegian police man was murdered by a norwegian resistence group in gjøvik. shot in the back on the way home from work, he said.

then he with some fellow students for the Viken Statsgymnas at Gjøvik was asked to come to his burial.

could look like some other memorial / event going on also with the big stone there? i dont know, but i do know that he said that the burial was the reason for his own apperance at this picture, at the norwegian police mans burial,gjøvik -43.

-unglagf