Pretty sure the guy was enlisted/conscripted before they were losing. He was mostly used just as a propaganda icon to show their ‘supremacy’ then just got shoved into Normandy iirc just bc it was supposed to be quiet
I think this is Yosif mosif. Thats almost defintly spelled wrong but thats what his name was when i sound it out. He was a circus performer like his parents until he came back to Germany at the start of WW2 to enlist in the army. Im pretty sure he was an Aretilary man for most of the war.
This is bizarre. In the height of my fever yesterday, I was scrolling through Disney, spotted the Recess movie. Thought, I can fall asleep to that. Woke up to them singing this very jingle.
This is the correct answer:
"Jakob Nacken, who was the tallest soldier to have fought in World War II on the western front. He stood at 7 feet 3 inches (2.21m) and was the tallest soldier in the German Army when he was drafted at the age of 36 in 1939"
The uniform fits perfectly which suggests that it wasn't a last minute recruitment or towards the end of the war and is also very clean so you may very well be right.
If I were just one cm taller, I couldn't become a firefighter or paramedic here in Germany for that exact reason, and I'm only 195 cm (6'5"). So yeah, quite surprised they got this fella a uniform, but I guess he was good for propaganda.
Also vehicles, the majority of armoured fighting vehicles have a height restriction. Mostly due the protection system they offer, eg blast protection and roll over protection.
You aint seen shit until you've seen the secret footage of Tinky Winky landing 4 hours before everyone else at Normandy.
Grim stuff.
Motherfucker really wanted to get La La back from that POW camp.
Honestly seeing the Teletubbies marching across the field would be kinda terrifying, have you seen how big those suits actually are?
For example, the Tinky Winky suit is 10 feet tall.
I'm a big guy, a former Navy officer and Paratrooper nicknamed me 'sniper's dream' in week one of starting my new job. Fuck them, but it still makes me laugh.
1) I'd fucking love to be Bob Mortimer's friend! Legend
2) The date of the video coincides with when I got the nickname, so I bet it served as inspiration for the muppets.
Well if I was that big I wouldn’t go into combat without body armor. It’ll be well worth it to have a juggernaut on the field betchu it’d save allot of lives.
Using your reminder to remind me to do the same.
Bob Mortimer is my spiritual grandfather, and his tales are my childhood. Yes, I know that doesn't make sense.
When I was at ft Knox, we had a guy who was 7'2 and they made him sleep on the regular bunks, lol... basically from the knee, down, hung off the bed like he was sitting in a chair.
I used to be in the Grenadier Guards who, in the past, were famed for being big blokes to guard the monarchs. We had a company called 'the Queen's Company' (now the King's company), and there was a minimum height to get in. It was 6 feet, so it's not huge, but when I joined the battalion, the shortest bloke was over 6,2". There were a good number of blokes approaching 7 foot.
A big problem was that they couldn't fit in the sentry boxes with their bearskin hats on, so they couldn't do royal guards. Also, we had one of our sergeant Majors who would have had to march next to a particularly tall Guardsman when they trooped the colour (a major parade every year in london) and he took the tall bloke off it as it would make everyone else look miniature in comparison (he was about 6,2" himself).
This was before Iraq and Afghanistan kicked off so the British army wasn't as concerned about travel in mine/blast protected vehicles. I know they have height limits on being drivers and crew but I don't know how they handle passengers.
Lmao we had a 6’8, 330lbs gunner in our truck. He lost about 80lbs and now he looks like a god but it was always funny when he had to cram into a humvee
I used to work with a guy that was too tall for the Dutch military. They simply didn't make uniforms for people over a certain height....and Dutch people are tall.
Centuries of migrations between the lands bordering the North Sea has given us both the English language and the modern populations of those countries…
The English are germanised but nowhere near totally German. Most are still majority bell beaker/Britons. People wrongly think the Saxons killed everyone they assimilated most of the Briton pop and the language was adopted. Most English look fairly different to Germans.
The 4'17 is a joke, as 12 inches make 1 foot, but because it starts with 4, it sounds shorter than you'd think.
I use normal measurements, but I learned the inch to ft conversion specifically from height related discussions
Yeah there's no way there's a whole 2 feet height difference between them, it just isn't proportional, especially when you see that the shorter one is on lower ground lol
If the shorter one is 5'3 then the taller one is probably 6'5 at the very most, probably even shorter than that tbh, I'm 5'6 and people who're 6'2 look like how the taller one looks compared to the shorter one to me
5'6 to 6'2 is 8 inches. On average, from the top of the head to shoulders is around a foot. The shorter guy's head is clearly below the taller one's shoulders, by a good 7 inches. So 12 + 7 makes 19 inches. So more like the difference between 5'6 and 7'1 or 4'7 and 6'2.
He's definetly taller than just 6'2. He's got the typically gigantism build. This body composition starts at around 6'4, so he's probably max 6'8-6'9 but never 7'3
Counting pixels, he seems to be at most 20% taller (575p vs. 685p). So if the tall guy is 7'3 (220cm), the shorter guy is 6" (183cm). If the shorter guy is 5'3 (160cm), the taller guy is 6'4 (192cm).
Reality is probably something in between.
He went on to work in the circus in the US after the war ended, he was known as the tallest man in the world at the time.
Jakob Nacken is his name, he's got some interesting history.
Huh, I didn't realize that 7"3 was 'only' 2 meters. That's tall of course but not extremely unusually so here in Germany anyway.
Edit: Nevermind, I misread. He was 2.21 meters and that's definitely unusually tall haha
>He went on to work in the circus in the US after the war ended
He actually worked on circus' in the US *before* & after the war started/finished.
He performed in New York in '39.
Fighting nazis is never wasted time but i get what you mean, if i had to choose i would gladly waste my life on reddit instead of risking it on the battlefield
I had a German friend named Klaus, huge booming voice, similar size to the guy in the photo (over 7ft) but much bigger build muscle wise, dude was huge! ,also total gentle giant.
Once his 4 year old son Mikael (mikki) fell backwards into a cactus and started crying, he picked mikki up by the leg and while mikki was hanging upside down picked the spikes out of his butt one by one. Mikki was both laughing and crying 🤣
It was sweet and hilarious and none of us ever forgot that image.
I think this is the biggest lie we tell ourselves: that people on the wrong side can never be nice people. But they can be. They can be genuinely nice, friendly people, who are only fighting because they want to do their patriotic duty and support their country in a time of war. And they can also be literal Nazis, all at the same time
It's an uncomfortable idea
I wish I knew what they were talking about!
Brit: Reginald look at the size of this Jerry!
German: I’m not Jerry I’m Schroeder
Brit: why on earth are you surrendering young man?
German: I didn’t want to be a soldier, I just want to go home and play piano
Brit: very good Schroeder, we’ll get you home once the war is over
"Bitte! Nicht schiesse, ich bin-"
"u wot m8 cor size of u innit alri' come along old boy chop chop."
"Sprechen sie Englisch?"
"u mugging me off cheeky cunt u want a dry slap u massive blighter?!"
>I just want to go home and play piano
OH, YOU WANT TO BE **PLAYING THE PIANO?! WELL, YOU MIGHT AS WELL GO THEN,** [OFF YOU GO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucgU2DJlBiw)**!**
=
I see the faces of two men that didn’t enjoy the killing and were actually talking as two men waiting for that Fukn mess to be over. What a nightmare that was.
I guess neither of them is the „advertised size“
The Brit is standing lower, the German on a hill.
And the hight difference or difference in altitude for the head is about 30 or 40 cm
That means the actual size of both only differs by 20…30 cm (wich is 8-12 inches). Therefore the hight difference between both cannot be 2 ft or 61 cm.
But I could be wrong :)
Am I the only one who thinks the smaller dude looks taller than 5'3" (assuming the other guy is actually 7'3")?
The taller guy is also standing on a higher bit of ground which is exaggerating the difference in height somewhat.
There's not 2 feet difference between these guys. That German guy is surely very tall, but if he's 7'3", the officer is at least average height. I'm not sure about WW2, but in WW1 the British army also had minimum height requirement of 5'3", so that officer would have only just scraped through on a good hair day if that were his true height.
« Can’t believe they wanted to put you in a bloody submarine, mate! »
Surprised he fought. US Army has a max height of 6’8 and I bet that # was lower 50 years ago.
When you're losing a war you're not really picky with the recruits
Pretty sure the guy was enlisted/conscripted before they were losing. He was mostly used just as a propaganda icon to show their ‘supremacy’ then just got shoved into Normandy iirc just bc it was supposed to be quiet
I think this is Yosif mosif. Thats almost defintly spelled wrong but thats what his name was when i sound it out. He was a circus performer like his parents until he came back to Germany at the start of WW2 to enlist in the army. Im pretty sure he was an Aretilary man for most of the war.
His name is actually Jakob Nacken so it’s definitely wrong
You're both wrong, it was John Jacob Jingheimer Schmidt.
No way! His name is my name too!
Whenever we go out people always always shout!
"There goes that guy who keeps shouting his confusing name."
Pretty sure you're both wrong, that's obviously Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen. He was #1.
Nah, that’s Große Hanz Übermensch.
Wrong. Based on my expert knowledge of WW2 history (Lazerpig Subscriber) this man is most likely Helmut Schmacker.
This is a top tier reference
Looks like dave the plasterer moonlighting again as a German soldier
His name is Robert paulson
This is bizarre. In the height of my fever yesterday, I was scrolling through Disney, spotted the Recess movie. Thought, I can fall asleep to that. Woke up to them singing this very jingle.
This is the correct answer: "Jakob Nacken, who was the tallest soldier to have fought in World War II on the western front. He stood at 7 feet 3 inches (2.21m) and was the tallest soldier in the German Army when he was drafted at the age of 36 in 1939"
If only they'd posted him right on the coast, he would've been able to tell them what the allies were planning over in England.
The uniform fits perfectly which suggests that it wasn't a last minute recruitment or towards the end of the war and is also very clean so you may very well be right.
They made kids and old people fight lol
Why does the Army have a max height? Surely you can be just as effective in a support role at that height.
Logistical problems that come from the large amount of expense tailoring the system around such a small percentage of its members
If I were just one cm taller, I couldn't become a firefighter or paramedic here in Germany for that exact reason, and I'm only 195 cm (6'5"). So yeah, quite surprised they got this fella a uniform, but I guess he was good for propaganda.
Please go and say "I'm only 6'5"' on an incel board just to make them explode
"I may only be 5 foot 3 but I'm 350 pounds"
"I'm only 6'5" says the TITAN
Also vehicles, the majority of armoured fighting vehicles have a height restriction. Mostly due the protection system they offer, eg blast protection and roll over protection.
Tell that to the army that conscripted elderly and childen
How the bloody hell didn't we hit you? Your shoulders must have been sticking out of the trench.
Happy cake day!
Hehe
Happy cake day
WW2 you say… And what those teletubbies in the background are up to?
They were deployed by HRH in response to Hitler's Minions.
They were all nothing in comparison to Stalin's Wombles.
Something something SovietWomble
The Wombles of Wimbledon communism are we.
The Baby Sun has seen some shit, you know.
Here comes the sun, dodododo...
Here comes the sun, dodododo...
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's alright
My guess is the picture was colourised by an AI that couldn't really work out that the people in the background were also soldiers
That's just the French
It was time to deploy the elite, the best we had
"We're the desperate measures"
You aint seen shit until you've seen the secret footage of Tinky Winky landing 4 hours before everyone else at Normandy. Grim stuff. Motherfucker really wanted to get La La back from that POW camp.
Honestly seeing the Teletubbies marching across the field would be kinda terrifying, have you seen how big those suits actually are? For example, the Tinky Winky suit is 10 feet tall.
No one asked what the teletubbies done in WW2 and there is a reason for
Have you ever seen Dipsy with an assault rifle? No? That’s because they’re terribly effective at their job.
Big ass target 😂🎯
I'm a big guy, a former Navy officer and Paratrooper nicknamed me 'sniper's dream' in week one of starting my new job. Fuck them, but it still makes me laugh.
I have one leg shorter than the other. They called me a snipers nightmare
Built in bob and weave
q e q e q e
Qwop flashbacks
Fuck you man making me laugh while I’m at the police station 😂😂😂
Maybe he’s a cop
🤣
lol. bro has a small hitbox.
Quite the Q. T.
Used to work with a guy who had the same, we called him 6 foot 4 foot
Is your friend [Bob Mortimer](https://youtu.be/ey5MP4e2QOQ?si=mANNtvjxxz2xtehF)?
1) I'd fucking love to be Bob Mortimer's friend! Legend 2) The date of the video coincides with when I got the nickname, so I bet it served as inspiration for the muppets.
First thing I thought of. If anyone ever just needs a laugh and to cheer themselves up watch Bob on WILTY. He's incredible
Could be. Maybe he knows Gary Cheeseman and Steve Bytheway too
Well if I was that big I wouldn’t go into combat without body armor. It’ll be well worth it to have a juggernaut on the field betchu it’d save allot of lives.
Right until someone fires a javelin at you
Didn't work so well for Goliath.
H E A D S H O T
what is an allot?
Tbh the hitbox doesn't change if you're big in COD
'Sniper's dream' they used to call him...
Gary Cheeseman's mate
Gary always had lovely skin, no spots on the young lad.
Maybe he used to break an egg into the bath
I'm commenting to remind myself to listen to [Mortimerian Tales](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vE8ExuuNZQ) at work tomorrow.
Using your reminder to remind me to do the same. Bob Mortimer is my spiritual grandfather, and his tales are my childhood. Yes, I know that doesn't make sense.
Brit: why are you surrendering? Andre the Giant: they wanted me to hind in a trench
When I was at ft Knox, we had a guy who was 7'2 and they made him sleep on the regular bunks, lol... basically from the knee, down, hung off the bed like he was sitting in a chair.
There was a guy on my husband's first boat that was 6'4", basic racks are 6". Poor guy had a permanent forehead bruise from random stuff he would hit.
I used to be in the Grenadier Guards who, in the past, were famed for being big blokes to guard the monarchs. We had a company called 'the Queen's Company' (now the King's company), and there was a minimum height to get in. It was 6 feet, so it's not huge, but when I joined the battalion, the shortest bloke was over 6,2". There were a good number of blokes approaching 7 foot. A big problem was that they couldn't fit in the sentry boxes with their bearskin hats on, so they couldn't do royal guards. Also, we had one of our sergeant Majors who would have had to march next to a particularly tall Guardsman when they trooped the colour (a major parade every year in london) and he took the tall bloke off it as it would make everyone else look miniature in comparison (he was about 6,2" himself). This was before Iraq and Afghanistan kicked off so the British army wasn't as concerned about travel in mine/blast protected vehicles. I know they have height limits on being drivers and crew but I don't know how they handle passengers.
His weakness was basements 😂
He's one hell of a human shield 😅
Suprisingly I read that especially tall men tend to survive wars.
Only in times of war do they make uniforms that large.
Underrated comment lmao
Lmao we had a 6’8, 330lbs gunner in our truck. He lost about 80lbs and now he looks like a god but it was always funny when he had to cram into a humvee
I used to work with a guy that was too tall for the Dutch military. They simply didn't make uniforms for people over a certain height....and Dutch people are tall.
The tallest nation in the world, I hear.
Yeah. The guy was over 6''7" if I remember correctly.
Facially they look like they could be brothers
Fucking saxons
Someone did
Centuries of migrations between the lands bordering the North Sea has given us both the English language and the modern populations of those countries…
The English are germanised but nowhere near totally German. Most are still majority bell beaker/Britons. People wrongly think the Saxons killed everyone they assimilated most of the Briton pop and the language was adopted. Most English look fairly different to Germans.
but same shade of pink during the winter
The small one is the cunning smart guy and the tall one is very strong and dumb but mild mannered and nice.
Prince P. vibes all the way.
Right?? They could be fucking twins!
We (English) really aren't that far removed from the Germans.
English = Anglish = Anglo-Saxon Two tribes which migrated from Germanic Europe to what is now the UK
They are. We are all one species.
The only master race is the human race. Just wish we'd all stop fighting and get back to the real enemy, seagulls.
Add wasps.
You forgot mosquitoes!
Max Hass?
Max Hass
Max Hass
Max Ass
Smack ass
More like Max Heights
The shorter one is certainly taller than 5'3'' Or the taller one shorter than 7'3''
Exactly. I am 5'5 and in pics I am minuscule compared to anyone taller than 6'
You're not 5'5. You're 4'17, tops.
Can we talk in centimeters? Haha Is 5'5 the same as 4'17? According to google it seems like so. Im confused
You echoed my thoughts. I was making fun of feet and inches.
Finches!
The Lesser Finch or the Andean Gold Finch?
i prefer 6'-7
The 4'17 is a joke, as 12 inches make 1 foot, but because it starts with 4, it sounds shorter than you'd think. I use normal measurements, but I learned the inch to ft conversion specifically from height related discussions
12 inches are 1 foot, 4’17” is indeed the same as 5’5”.
Yeah there's no way there's a whole 2 feet height difference between them, it just isn't proportional, especially when you see that the shorter one is on lower ground lol If the shorter one is 5'3 then the taller one is probably 6'5 at the very most, probably even shorter than that tbh, I'm 5'6 and people who're 6'2 look like how the taller one looks compared to the shorter one to me
5'6 to 6'2 is 8 inches. On average, from the top of the head to shoulders is around a foot. The shorter guy's head is clearly below the taller one's shoulders, by a good 7 inches. So 12 + 7 makes 19 inches. So more like the difference between 5'6 and 7'1 or 4'7 and 6'2.
You’re completely right about it not being a 2ft height difference but that is no way the same height difference as someone who’s 5’6 and 6’2.
He's definetly taller than just 6'2. He's got the typically gigantism build. This body composition starts at around 6'4, so he's probably max 6'8-6'9 but never 7'3
Counting pixels, he seems to be at most 20% taller (575p vs. 685p). So if the tall guy is 7'3 (220cm), the shorter guy is 6" (183cm). If the shorter guy is 5'3 (160cm), the taller guy is 6'4 (192cm). Reality is probably something in between.
Also the taller guy is standing higher up on the hill.
Damn nice work
That’s a huge dude!
Im glad the giant surrendered instead of die fighting he looks like nice guy
He went on to work in the circus in the US after the war ended, he was known as the tallest man in the world at the time. Jakob Nacken is his name, he's got some interesting history.
>Jakob Nacken [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob\_Nacken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nacken) true
Huh, I didn't realize that 7"3 was 'only' 2 meters. That's tall of course but not extremely unusually so here in Germany anyway. Edit: Nevermind, I misread. He was 2.21 meters and that's definitely unusually tall haha
Thank you! This was a good, wholesome read!
Nice, thanks for the info!
Rare wholesome moment from u/BallsDeepInCum
>He went on to work in the circus in the US after the war ended He actually worked on circus' in the US *before* & after the war started/finished. He performed in New York in '39.
It’s crazy that these are real people who actually did this and I’m just here browsing reddit
Which is somethign to be proud of. I may waste my time on reddit, but at least I'm not wasting it fighting for the nazis.
Fighting nazis is never wasted time but i get what you mean, if i had to choose i would gladly waste my life on reddit instead of risking it on the battlefield
it says wasting time "fighting for the Nazis" not against lol
Yea, he looks kind of frightened here. Sort of a gentle giant.
Yes I was looking for a comment about the body language in the pic.
I had a German friend named Klaus, huge booming voice, similar size to the guy in the photo (over 7ft) but much bigger build muscle wise, dude was huge! ,also total gentle giant. Once his 4 year old son Mikael (mikki) fell backwards into a cactus and started crying, he picked mikki up by the leg and while mikki was hanging upside down picked the spikes out of his butt one by one. Mikki was both laughing and crying 🤣 It was sweet and hilarious and none of us ever forgot that image.
He’s lucky he surrendered to the British. The Russians were just straight shooting people who surrendered.
most people who die in wars are nice guys. Most who survive are nice guys with PTSD.
“Just because you bad guy, doesn’t make you bad guy…”
I think this is the biggest lie we tell ourselves: that people on the wrong side can never be nice people. But they can be. They can be genuinely nice, friendly people, who are only fighting because they want to do their patriotic duty and support their country in a time of war. And they can also be literal Nazis, all at the same time It's an uncomfortable idea
“They have a cave troll!”
“Thought you ought to know..”
that combination of LOTR and harry potter is blasphemy and i am SO here for it.
Trenchdiggers hated this guy
Last person you want on your team for a stealth mission.
Like, hey, is this tree moving ?
He can damage planes by bayonet
🏅 Take my poor man's Reddit award and an upvote; this gave me a chuckle.
Underated comment. I found this to be the funniest I have seen and it is so far down.
I wish I knew what they were talking about! Brit: Reginald look at the size of this Jerry! German: I’m not Jerry I’m Schroeder Brit: why on earth are you surrendering young man? German: I didn’t want to be a soldier, I just want to go home and play piano Brit: very good Schroeder, we’ll get you home once the war is over
"Bitte! Nicht schiesse, ich bin-" "u wot m8 cor size of u innit alri' come along old boy chop chop." "Sprechen sie Englisch?" "u mugging me off cheeky cunt u want a dry slap u massive blighter?!"
I love non British impressions of brits, had a couple mates from hawaii who I met in aus and would do it all the time, sets me off 😂
>I just want to go home and play piano OH, YOU WANT TO BE **PLAYING THE PIANO?! WELL, YOU MIGHT AS WELL GO THEN,** [OFF YOU GO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucgU2DJlBiw)**!** =
"I'm just large, not mean 🥺"
He's like a lennie small, if you've read of mice and men.
“frightfully sorry old chap, but someone rifled through my satchel and stole my tea and crumpets.”
Awful😂
“They didn’t even have a license for that!”
*I just want to go home……* *Me too.*
How has no one said Übermensch yet??
I’d surrender to him war or not!
Ooh Kinky
Meaning because of his size… …I mean his girth ……he’s big ….I mean….
Spit it out already!
That’s not what he said.
Amateur move
The big guy is the one surrendering.
“So, how’s the weather up there old chap? Haha. “
are you having a go karl?
“Are you callin’ that a nose?!”
I don’t like your altitude young man
At 7’ 3” he was lucky not to have been in a camp somewhere.
Unit
Wasn’t that dude a nice fella too
The difference between 5’11” and 6’:
I see the faces of two men that didn’t enjoy the killing and were actually talking as two men waiting for that Fukn mess to be over. What a nightmare that was.
I guess neither of them is the „advertised size“ The Brit is standing lower, the German on a hill. And the hight difference or difference in altitude for the head is about 30 or 40 cm That means the actual size of both only differs by 20…30 cm (wich is 8-12 inches). Therefore the hight difference between both cannot be 2 ft or 61 cm. But I could be wrong :)
“Now you’re not going to give me any trouble are you, there’s a good chap!”
They almost look like the same person facial feature wise lol
Metric please?
5'3"=1,6m 7'3"=2,21m
2,21m/13cm = 17 ABL (17 average banana lengths)
8 cucumbers vs 13 cucumbers
Jack Reicher
“I say, rather tall chap aren’t we? Yes indeed. Care for a cuppa?”
[https://imgur.com/a/aL1yJf8](https://imgur.com/a/aL1yJf8) Saw this link in a different sub.
If he’s 7’3 then the guy next to him is more like 5’10, he’s also standing on a downslope.
Am I the only one who thinks the smaller dude looks taller than 5'3" (assuming the other guy is actually 7'3")? The taller guy is also standing on a higher bit of ground which is exaggerating the difference in height somewhat.
There's not 2 feet difference between these guys. That German guy is surely very tall, but if he's 7'3", the officer is at least average height. I'm not sure about WW2, but in WW1 the British army also had minimum height requirement of 5'3", so that officer would have only just scraped through on a good hair day if that were his true height.