BACKGROUND: The Norwegian, NS, Nasjonal Samling, (National Unity), party, founded in May 1933 by Vidkun Quisling, was designed and structured on the same basis as the NSDAP. Although the NS party never enjoyed any electoral success prior to the invasion of Norway by the Germans, Quisling proclaimed himself Prime Minister after the invasion. This was originally rejected by the Germans, but in September 1940 Quisling’s NS party was declared the only legal political party in Norway and in February 1942 Hitler finally appointed Quisling as Minister President of Norway. Although the nominal head of state Quisling was just a puppet collaborator with the real power of Norway being secured by the German Reichskommissar Josef Terboven. The NS was divided into numerous sub-sections, designated, "Hird’s", which is an ancient Norwegian word translating roughly as, the king’s followers. The Rikshird, (National Followers), was founded in 1933 for all active party members between 18 and 45 years of age and would be roughly equivalent to the German SA, Sturmabteilung. On May 16TH 1941 the Norwegian Police Chief Jonas Lie with Reichskommissar Josef Terboven assistance formed the Norges-SS, (Norwegian-SS), from Rikshird personnel without Quisling’s knowledge or approval. On May 21ST Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler traveled to Oslo for the official announcement of the formation of the Norges-SS much to Quisling’s chagrin. On July 21ST 1942 the Norges-SS was converted into the Germanische-SS Norge, (Germanic SS-Norway), and cut all ties with the Rikshird. The development of Germanische-SS Norge was an attempt by Himmler to consolidate all non-German SS formation of western Europe into one single organization with all of its personnel swearing their oath of allegiance to Hitler.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A 42 page 16cm x 23cm page booklet with various articles and black and white photos. It is "Issue 1, 1941." There is an evident tear to the right facing top corner of the cover