No hate, but "During his training an officer with a dark uniform and the death head insignia showed up" means the guy was recruiting for the SS-Totenkopfverbände.
The recruits in SS-Totenkopfverbände were recruited from the prison guards of concentration and death camps. Just saying.
The man could have been yes, but the formation of SS-Nord began as a several Toteknkopfverbande units together in Norway, thus the officers would still have had the unit designation.
Also, many people don't realise that people were conscripted into the SS and as a result wore the badges and uniforms that came with it. Also, when the Totenkopfverbände was created it was created from members of the Concentration Camp service
and support units transferred from the army.
In fact, DasDoomTurtles Great-Grandfathers regiment was reinforced by conscripts.
DasDoomTurtles story raises a valid point; not everyone in the SS was a war criminal. Some were, and SS units committed some of the worst acts during a bloody period of time, but many were just normal people who were caught up by the lifestyle, politics and propaganda surrounding the SS. Some of those people did terrible, terrible things but crucially others did not.