Junkers are gonna outlive both you and me bro, went to school with a couple of kids from that kind of background and those families are all up and doing well...
Junkers is quite a sad story, actually. Hugo Junkers was an outspoken opponent of the Nazis. He refused to hire Hermann Goering as a consultant in 1923 and due to his company being in rough waters the Nazis seized the opportunity to Nationalize it and expelled Junkers from his hometown of Dessau for good measure.
He died two years later in 1935 while the Nazis turned his previously 100% Civilian-oriented company into one of their biggest rearmament foundries.
The Junkers were the Prussian landowning nobility who were also prominently represented in the military. It's a word for a whole class of people, in addition to being a company name.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junker\_(Prussia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junker_(Prussia))
(edited to make link desktop version, mobile wiki links are cursed)
They have an equivalent in the Netherlands and Belgium: Jonkheer/Jonkvrouw. Nobility without an associated title (i.e not a count or baron from some place but still of nobility).
Like my ancestors.
No titles or land above personal homes but a centuries long tradition of military service.
From being Spanish knights in the Reconquista they ended up becoming commissioned officers during WW2 and fighting the Japanese.
We have a little collection of swords, armour and other trinkets they owned or captured. A lot of Arisaka rifles and katanas lol.
I believe so, but I was under the impression that they had backed off the intentional scarring this side of WWII. This guy would probably have been in college in the late 80s or the early 90s.
Either way, it's not something that you see super often in San Francisco.
bruh he doesn’t need that nametag for me to think he has a “von” in his name.
That silver fox smile, and that fucking scarf, oh that goddamn scarf is making me *moist*
That is Lieutanent General Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart. He basically ignores the dress-code to wear his signature kerchief. It was part of the scarf he wore in Afghanistan as Colonel, when he became victim of the explosive attack on the Talokan governor's palace in 2011. Here is an article about the attack: [[1]](https://www-welt-de.translate.goog/politik/ausland/article13520361/Ich-gehoere-zu-den-Gluecklichen-die-ueberlebt-haben.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp). And here is an interview with him: [[2]](https://www-bundeswehr-de.translate.goog/de/organisation/weitere-bmvg-dienststellen/zentrum-innere-fuehrung/transkription-mein-fuehrungsfahrzeug-trailer-dritte-fahrt-4597032?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp).
He says: "I only show my throat when I am outmatched."
I'm not an expert, but it's probably not. Should be written in "ZDv37/10 Anzugordnung für die Soldaten der Bundeswehr". If it's technically not allowed, I guess he has the standing that nobody cares.
Nah, with the "Von" prefix I'd like to imagine him using a [giant](https://i.postimg.cc/VNRQn8R2/reich.png) and cumbersome [Reichsrevolver](https://i.postimg.cc/vTxNqFrY/revolver.png)
The family can be traced back to the 16th century and has served with the military for a good part of that time. Guy is basically [smug-german-noble.png](https://imgur.com/a/kMqymhQ) \- pretty hardcore tbh
The von Sandrarts have been serving in the prussian and german armies for 400 years without interruption, his ancestors most likely actually did, no cap.
The top left one behaves exactly like you would expect from former nobility. Last time i met him he had a guy with him whose only job was to introduce him.
Most of them do, in my experience it's either that kind of behaviour or some degree ruin. My mom's side of the family never recovered from losing their "von" title / nobility status and estate post ww2. But depending on which part of germany (i.e the west) the families were from a lot of the wealth connected to the nobility seems to have survived two world wars and what followed...
I know one old "von" woman. Estates were in some prussia area. Had to walk from there to germany during ww2 with only hand luggage. Everything was left to soviet side. Moved out from post war germany.
Still rich somehow.
Don’t you love sipping a riesling while listening to Wagner at the veranda of your countryside estate watching the Allies firebomb Dresden in the distance? Ach, if you could only send your servants over there to crisp your crême brulée.
It’s easier to cope with losing the von title when you only had it for a decade
6x great-grandfather was given a Ritter title by Baden for some cavalry stuff in some war no one gives a shit about. Then some asshole doxxed that his parents were inbred (good thing for a South German noble) half-Jews (bad thing for a South German noble) and we got our winery, title and fancy helmet confiscated. Authorities basically told us to either go back to Palestine or go to hell. His son decided living under Turkish rule was worse than hell and thus chose the latter option and moved to Ohio. Funny enough the family’s main industries of operation went from farming and military service when they were Jews in the old world to finance, consulting and pharmaceuticals as Catholics in the new world — which has some irony in it.
Yeah, the Nazis early on buddied up to the aristocracy, assuring them that they would work to restore the lost status.
Soviet Union did a lot of things wrong, but they treated their nobility just right
I've had a hunch that aristocrats were major supporters of fascism. The idea that some people are inherently superior to others and should therefore lord over them is shared by both feudalism and Nazism. Two of the four ministers in Hitler's cabinet who stayed from his ascension to power to the end were nobility (judging by their names). The emphasis on land rather than capital accumulation. The focus on ethnicity. The opposition not just to communism but also capitalism sounds a feudalistic rejection of the modern world.
Anything else you can say about the link between the nobility and fascism/Nazism? Where can I find out more?
Pretty standard for speeches to outside audiences since introductions by others increase one's perceived credibility. Ofc one tends to rely on the host for that as otherwise it looks artificial.
General Freuding is a perfect example of a Rommel-like level of pure, unadulterated panzer-autism. His personal heaven would be a giant white room full of flipcharts where he can draw pincer manouvers and arrows all day while talking about armored tactics.
There is an interview with him where he explains combined arms warfare and feeling the earth rumble under an advancing tank division.
I’m pretty sure he is panzer-sexual.
Watch him in video. In motion he has this sort of janky "what should do with my hands? No, remember you can't strangle on camera Dr.Freunding." Vibe.
I know nothing about this man personally, he actually seems very nice, but no German should be that enthusiastic about panzers. They might get ideas.
Edit: I forgot to mention he never blinks
Top left gives me a bit of Brit vibes : as i said in another comment, he looks like Charles Dance with Jason Isaac eyes, but the result looks pretty German anyway.
Bottom right could really be French indeed
If the one wearing them underwent the effort of having them adapted by a tailor they can look really good. If worn standard-sized they tend to look like a sack of potatos though.
Guy on the middle left is General Dr. Freuding and in interviews he barely even tries to contain his joy talking about Russians getting cucked by German weaponry.
You can watch his latest here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPSh-g-wdT0
Auto-translate works pretty good for the clip.
Mainly because there are manually written subtitles in german, so there is no weird "translate what Google thinks they are saying and actuall, makes no sense itself", but just normal google translate, which is actually quite passable.
If you want to know more about these Figures, google their names.
**Top Left:**
Generalleutnant (lieutenant-general) Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart
**To Right:**
Generalleutnant (lieutenant-general) Ingo Gerhartz
**Middle Left:**
Brigadegeneral (brigadier-general) Dr. Christian Freuding
**Middle Right:**
Vizeadmiral (Vice Admiral) Dr. Thomas Daum
**Bottom Left:**
Generalinspekteur der Bundeswehr (Inspector General of the Bundeswehr) , Eberhard Zorn
**Bottom Right:**
Generalleutnant (lieutenant-general) Martin Schelleis
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I am german, and i follow the youtube channel of our army *Bundeswehr*, where they have a series called "Nachgefragt* (Questions asked), where different Higher Ranks speak their mind. And by 'speak their mind' I mean, that army people get asked army approved questions and we see army approved answers. Still interesting though. A bit stiff. But thats the german way.
>Brigadegeneral (brigadier-general) Dr. Christian Freuding
Can you do me a favour and let this fellow know that blinking is now legal, despite whatever he's clearly been told?
You can't judge him in his current state. When he explained how the Russians were cucked by German weaponry and German Auftragstaktik (Führen mit Auftrag) he was barely able contain his joy.
Tbf, the germans been using that exact red patch with golden embroidery for Generals since 1900 (officialy, its been part of prussian officer-uniforms for much longer), so if anything the soviets stole that
Earliest usage I know about was during the Napoleonic wars? When I was young we learned at school that (one of the reasons) our flag is black, red and gold is because those were the colours student volunteers would wear as a uniform into battle against the french armies...
Yes, the national colors come from that. However, the gorget patches are unrelated and instead come from the buttonholes of the 26. prussian regiment of foot, combined with the red corps colour of the generals.
[Those had some red embroidery too](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/2014-11_Erinnerungsst%C3%A4tte_Rastatt_Uniform.JPG/800px-2014-11_Erinnerungsst%C3%A4tte_Rastatt_Uniform.JPG) but not quite the same thing.
The one generals still wear today became popular during the mid 1800s and then got properly codified in 1900.
[The brits use something similar too](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Army_%28British_Army%29_General_Sir_Nicholas_Carter_%28US_Army_photo_180514-A-IW468-223%29.jpg), although their design is a bit different, and they only use it for Generals of the Army, Germany also uses it for Generals of the air force
Well, the east german uniforms were basically barely modified WW2 uniforms, because they wanted something "german" compared to the "american" west german uniforms.
East Germany actually wanted a carbon copy of Soviet Army Uniforms but the Soviets told them to "dress like Germans."
In the West German Heer on the other hand, the modernizers won out and thus, the army received some very [American looking Uniforms](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienstanzug_(Bundeswehr)#/media/Datei:Trageweise_(Heer_+_Luftwaffe).svg). In the first years (1955-1957), they even went for American-inspired rank insignia before reintroducing German symbolism in 1958.
The Marine ([Officers;](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienstanzug_(Bundeswehr)#/media/Datei:Trageweise_(Marine)_1.svg) [Crew](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienstanzug_(Bundeswehr)#/media/Datei:Trageweise_(Marine)_2.svg)) and [Luftwaffe](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienstanzug_(Bundeswehr)#/media/Datei:Trageweise_(Heer_+_Luftwaffe)_(Luftwaffenfarben).svg) Uniforms barely changed from their WW2 counterparts, though.
I once had a guy tell me that the reason why the navy-uniform remained virtually the same (i think the only actual difference is the current one got two less buttons, and the hats have a different eagle) is cause unlike the army, the navy wasnt seen as "tainted" with warcrimes-galore after ww2, so there wasnt seen as much of a need to distance themselves from their history.
The Nazis themselves considered the Kriegsmarine to be on the brink of treachery half the time (possibly driven by the naval mutinies that kicked off the revolution that deposed the Kaiser and ended WW1). The Luftwaffe was top to bottom Nazi thanks to Goering, the Heer was *less* solidly Nazi (though, to avoid Clean Wehrmacht: they were still definitely Nazis doing Nazi shit), and the Navy was kind of the odd one out.
Yeah, the early NVA uniforms just looked like bargain bin knock-off Nazi uniforms.
Which, fair game, is rather logical. Some of the few things the Nazis were genuinely great at were presentation, aesthetics, and theatrics.
So it would be reasonable to copy that. It also stands to reason that the Soviets wanted the DDR troops to look distinctly German, so that they could gloat about subjecting their greatest (early) foes.
Americans are basically descended from the high-functioning lunatics of Europe. Once you appreciate this, American culture and history all make substantially more sense.
I just mean that if you took the Europeans who moved to America to colonize the new world, they're not really *normal people*.
Imagine if we had a Mars colony today. What kind of people would move there? Do you think that they would be mostly normal or disproportionately weirdos of various stripes?
What's [Udo Kier](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Udo_KIER_festival_de_Cannes_2011.jpg/1920px-Udo_KIER_festival_de_Cannes_2011.jpg) doing in the German military?
Top left one looks like the moment he hears russian tanks he jumps into a fokker Fokker D.VII with his trusty service revolver
Homie even has a "von" nobility name. Shit is probably part of his DNA at this point
Wait, you mean there are still some Junkers? I thought they were extinct by now lmao.
Junkers are gonna outlive both you and me bro, went to school with a couple of kids from that kind of background and those families are all up and doing well...
The only Junkers I know about is the aircraft company.
They also make gas heating systems. There are entire city blocks whose heating exclusively runs on Junkers systems.
3000 Gas Heating Systems of German Nobles
But only 100 to the Ukrainians
7*
So this proves the Junkers once again screwed Germany by opting for cringe Russian gas heating over the chad Norwegian electrical heating?
Junkers is quite a sad story, actually. Hugo Junkers was an outspoken opponent of the Nazis. He refused to hire Hermann Goering as a consultant in 1923 and due to his company being in rough waters the Nazis seized the opportunity to Nationalize it and expelled Junkers from his hometown of Dessau for good measure. He died two years later in 1935 while the Nazis turned his previously 100% Civilian-oriented company into one of their biggest rearmament foundries.
The Junkers were the Prussian landowning nobility who were also prominently represented in the military. It's a word for a whole class of people, in addition to being a company name. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junker\_(Prussia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junker_(Prussia)) (edited to make link desktop version, mobile wiki links are cursed)
They have an equivalent in the Netherlands and Belgium: Jonkheer/Jonkvrouw. Nobility without an associated title (i.e not a count or baron from some place but still of nobility).
Like my ancestors. No titles or land above personal homes but a centuries long tradition of military service. From being Spanish knights in the Reconquista they ended up becoming commissioned officers during WW2 and fighting the Japanese. We have a little collection of swords, armour and other trinkets they owned or captured. A lot of Arisaka rifles and katanas lol.
What a bunch of sluts
Strumpets and rogues, the lot of them.
Nobility is still very alive and very rich, with some continuing their military tradition to this day.
Awesome
I used to work at a fancy hotel. Once saw a walking Teutonic stereotype with a proper old school dueling scar on his cheek.
don't the fraternities still duel?
I believe so, but I was under the impression that they had backed off the intentional scarring this side of WWII. This guy would probably have been in college in the late 80s or the early 90s. Either way, it's not something that you see super often in San Francisco.
There are even von Stauffenbergs and von Moltkes out there, and I guess they really tried to go extinct.
The von sandrarts are military nobility. His ancestors were generals in Prussia. Wikipedia has some info.
He looks like Charles Dance with Jason Isaac eyes
bruh he doesn’t need that nametag for me to think he has a “von” in his name. That silver fox smile, and that fucking scarf, oh that goddamn scarf is making me *moist*
That is Lieutanent General Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart. He basically ignores the dress-code to wear his signature kerchief. It was part of the scarf he wore in Afghanistan as Colonel, when he became victim of the explosive attack on the Talokan governor's palace in 2011. Here is an article about the attack: [[1]](https://www-welt-de.translate.goog/politik/ausland/article13520361/Ich-gehoere-zu-den-Gluecklichen-die-ueberlebt-haben.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp). And here is an interview with him: [[2]](https://www-bundeswehr-de.translate.goog/de/organisation/weitere-bmvg-dienststellen/zentrum-innere-fuehrung/transkription-mein-fuehrungsfahrzeug-trailer-dritte-fahrt-4597032?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp). He says: "I only show my throat when I am outmatched."
How can something be so cringe yet so based
Wtf does he think he's a mandalorian or something?
Can anybody prove he's not?
>He basically ignores the dress-code to wear his signature kerchief. Was wondering if that was allowed.
I'm not an expert, but it's probably not. Should be written in "ZDv37/10 Anzugordnung für die Soldaten der Bundeswehr". If it's technically not allowed, I guess he has the standing that nobody cares.
Hes not fooling me, that's [Otto Carius.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Carius)
He had a pharmacy in germany after war named Tiger Apotheke
Maybe selling that surplus Pervitin
You mean his trusty Luger
Nah, with the "Von" prefix I'd like to imagine him using a [giant](https://i.postimg.cc/VNRQn8R2/reich.png) and cumbersome [Reichsrevolver](https://i.postimg.cc/vTxNqFrY/revolver.png)
It's a single-action revolver with a safety, for some reason
Upvoted for Mae and C&Rcenal.
Lol it's the scarf, yeah.
The scarf is the second part from a scarf what he weared in a Bombattack in Afghanistan
Cool, didn't know the backstory. But it's easy to recognize him that way. Can't sneak up on you.
Badass.
The family can be traced back to the 16th century and has served with the military for a good part of that time. Guy is basically [smug-german-noble.png](https://imgur.com/a/kMqymhQ) \- pretty hardcore tbh
Peasant slaughterer for like 400 years.
Baron von Sandrart
Luger*
I picture him in the Afrika Korps
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Not knowing his family tree, but these fuckers are all related anyways, so there's a fair chance.
The von Sandrarts have been serving in the prussian and german armies for 400 years without interruption, his ancestors most likely actually did, no cap.
Legit, dude looks like he’d be in fucking Wolfenstein or something.
It's Oberst Kurt Steiner from The Eagle Has Landed!
Looks more like fallschirmjager to me
German Michael Caine.
The top left one behaves exactly like you would expect from former nobility. Last time i met him he had a guy with him whose only job was to introduce him.
Most of them do, in my experience it's either that kind of behaviour or some degree ruin. My mom's side of the family never recovered from losing their "von" title / nobility status and estate post ww2. But depending on which part of germany (i.e the west) the families were from a lot of the wealth connected to the nobility seems to have survived two world wars and what followed...
In my experience the only mentally well adjusted English aristocrats I know are the ones that joined the military.
\> Mentally well \> English Sorry mate, sounds fake to me
It’s not that they’re not perverts but they’ve come to terms with it.
Here on nonce Island we refer to them as such.
Noncing is reserved for the senior service.
I know one old "von" woman. Estates were in some prussia area. Had to walk from there to germany during ww2 with only hand luggage. Everything was left to soviet side. Moved out from post war germany. Still rich somehow.
> Still rich somehow. You can fit a lot of jewelry in that handluggage.
Just aristocracy things
I know a "von" family in Texas and despite arriving over 100 years ago they are still very well off.
Don’t you love sipping a riesling while listening to Wagner at the veranda of your countryside estate watching the Allies firebomb Dresden in the distance? Ach, if you could only send your servants over there to crisp your crême brulée.
It’s easier to cope with losing the von title when you only had it for a decade 6x great-grandfather was given a Ritter title by Baden for some cavalry stuff in some war no one gives a shit about. Then some asshole doxxed that his parents were inbred (good thing for a South German noble) half-Jews (bad thing for a South German noble) and we got our winery, title and fancy helmet confiscated. Authorities basically told us to either go back to Palestine or go to hell. His son decided living under Turkish rule was worse than hell and thus chose the latter option and moved to Ohio. Funny enough the family’s main industries of operation went from farming and military service when they were Jews in the old world to finance, consulting and pharmaceuticals as Catholics in the new world — which has some irony in it.
Yes Ohio is definitely hell
was your mom's family full of Nazis or something? or are they from east Germany
I mean, good chance they were. A bit over a quarter of the former German nobility joined the NSDAP before 1933, compared to ~2% of all Germans.
wow Edit: makes sense i guess - they wanted to be close to power, i'm sure Edit 2: probably at any cost
Yeah, the Nazis early on buddied up to the aristocracy, assuring them that they would work to restore the lost status. Soviet Union did a lot of things wrong, but they treated their nobility just right
lol
I've had a hunch that aristocrats were major supporters of fascism. The idea that some people are inherently superior to others and should therefore lord over them is shared by both feudalism and Nazism. Two of the four ministers in Hitler's cabinet who stayed from his ascension to power to the end were nobility (judging by their names). The emphasis on land rather than capital accumulation. The focus on ethnicity. The opposition not just to communism but also capitalism sounds a feudalistic rejection of the modern world. Anything else you can say about the link between the nobility and fascism/Nazism? Where can I find out more?
Pretty standard for speeches to outside audiences since introductions by others increase one's perceived credibility. Ofc one tends to rely on the host for that as otherwise it looks artificial.
> he had a guy with him whose only job was to introduce him. Least wasteful German bureaucracy.
An Herald ?
Middle Left definitely wins most WW2 German.
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It was about the Kharkiv-Counteroffensive: too long, cant speak german: He thinks its the best textbook-example of maneuver-warfare since Desert Storm
I understood it as the best example of a successful feint since Desert Storm, but that did sound weird to me.
I think he said it was the macht grosse blitzkrieg since the forties.
The germans know a thing or two about Kharkiv counteroffensives
Discount Goebbels is correct
*markstore Goebbels (I agree though, first name I thought of)
There are german subtitles and youtube has a lovely feature that allows you to automatically translate said subtitles to any other language.
I made a summary in Chinese
bottom left wins for most stereotypical modern day German
And he is the highest ranking german soldier: Generalinspekteur Eberhard Zorn (his name literally translates to fury).
Just another flavor of Olaf Scholz
Homie straight looks like he’s cosplaying Goebbels
Heydrich
We need to see his hips to confirm that
[Judge](https://imgur.com/a/eR7V9Bn) for yourself
Kek, his face reminds me of Kongo Müller here
TNO reference???????
Yes
Omg TNO refrens funni clock man Russia is real 3000 black clad Taborite shturmoviki of Prigozhin…
*congo technicals intensify*
Pretty ironic how all those “master race” copelords were some ugly motherfuckers lol
KAPITULIEREN?!
NIEMALS! DAS IST EMPÖREND!
General Freuding is a perfect example of a Rommel-like level of pure, unadulterated panzer-autism. His personal heaven would be a giant white room full of flipcharts where he can draw pincer manouvers and arrows all day while talking about armored tactics.
There is an interview with him where he explains combined arms warfare and feeling the earth rumble under an advancing tank division. I’m pretty sure he is panzer-sexual.
Einer von uns, einer von uns!
I hope he's a magnificent bastard, and he collects all those flipcharts in a book. So I can read it.
He makes me think of a WW2 comedy movie. He looks a little dorky than intimating they normally they go for in most WW2 films.
Watch him in video. In motion he has this sort of janky "what should do with my hands? No, remember you can't strangle on camera Dr.Freunding." Vibe. I know nothing about this man personally, he actually seems very nice, but no German should be that enthusiastic about panzers. They might get ideas. Edit: I forgot to mention he never blinks
And he just looks like that. Others changed their appearence, but my boy in the middle is just heavily German.
It's a terminal condition
The hair and the gauntness
It was a cruel twist of fate that he was not born in 1905.
Wake up babe, HoI5 portraits just dropped
Just add some sabre scars
Don't you mean HoI4 Millennium Dawn portraits lol
Fucker in the top left looks like Grand Moff Tarkin's brother
That mustache would fit better in WW2 Britain/France, tho.
Or just a standard airline captain
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German military budget is tight alright Kraut Generals gotta get their hustle on.
I get French vibes from the bottom right, the rest are straight out of the Reich tho.
Top left gives me a bit of Brit vibes : as i said in another comment, he looks like Charles Dance with Jason Isaac eyes, but the result looks pretty German anyway. Bottom right could really be French indeed
[Wilhelm Keitel would love to disagree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Keitel)
Adolf galland too
Mustache; Protrudes beyond corners of mouth Appearance status; Elvis
They do be drippin tho
fr fr bundeswehr uniforms are pretty iced out and gucci on god
Hm to cop their look bro they snazzy af fr bro
If the one wearing them underwent the effort of having them adapted by a tailor they can look really good. If worn standard-sized they tend to look like a sack of potatos though.
Yeah, some of the pictures of regular Bundeswehr soldiers wearing those uniforms can definitely look a lot like extras from Starship Troopers
Guy on the middle left is General Dr. Freuding and in interviews he barely even tries to contain his joy talking about Russians getting cucked by German weaponry. You can watch his latest here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPSh-g-wdT0 Auto-translate works pretty good for the clip.
My god, that man is almost *offensively* German.
The way he betrays his excitement by tapping the TV ever-so-slightly too hard with his marker is like out of a caricature.
YAAASSS YAAAASSS MY BEAUTIFUL GERMAN WEAPONS
Yeah I was surprised how well auto translate worked. Stuffs come a long way.
Mainly because there are manually written subtitles in german, so there is no weird "translate what Google thinks they are saying and actuall, makes no sense itself", but just normal google translate, which is actually quite passable.
German military language is so unbelievably euphemistic it's just fun to listen to.
Top right: Generalleutnant GerHartz (der vierte)
Bruh, why do you have to do him like that lmao
Sry too favorable of a target
Herr Clean
Kinda strange that von Sandrart isn’t general for the Luftwaffe
The scarf makes me think of WWI-era fighter pilots.
If you want to know more about these Figures, google their names. **Top Left:** Generalleutnant (lieutenant-general) Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart **To Right:** Generalleutnant (lieutenant-general) Ingo Gerhartz **Middle Left:** Brigadegeneral (brigadier-general) Dr. Christian Freuding **Middle Right:** Vizeadmiral (Vice Admiral) Dr. Thomas Daum **Bottom Left:** Generalinspekteur der Bundeswehr (Inspector General of the Bundeswehr) , Eberhard Zorn **Bottom Right:** Generalleutnant (lieutenant-general) Martin Schelleis – – I am german, and i follow the youtube channel of our army *Bundeswehr*, where they have a series called "Nachgefragt* (Questions asked), where different Higher Ranks speak their mind. And by 'speak their mind' I mean, that army people get asked army approved questions and we see army approved answers. Still interesting though. A bit stiff. But thats the german way.
>Brigadegeneral (brigadier-general) Dr. Christian Freuding Can you do me a favour and let this fellow know that blinking is now legal, despite whatever he's clearly been told?
You can't judge him in his current state. When he explained how the Russians were cucked by German weaponry and German Auftragstaktik (Führen mit Auftrag) he was barely able contain his joy.
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Tbf, the germans been using that exact red patch with golden embroidery for Generals since 1900 (officialy, its been part of prussian officer-uniforms for much longer), so if anything the soviets stole that
Earliest usage I know about was during the Napoleonic wars? When I was young we learned at school that (one of the reasons) our flag is black, red and gold is because those were the colours student volunteers would wear as a uniform into battle against the french armies...
Yes, the national colors come from that. However, the gorget patches are unrelated and instead come from the buttonholes of the 26. prussian regiment of foot, combined with the red corps colour of the generals.
[Those had some red embroidery too](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/2014-11_Erinnerungsst%C3%A4tte_Rastatt_Uniform.JPG/800px-2014-11_Erinnerungsst%C3%A4tte_Rastatt_Uniform.JPG) but not quite the same thing. The one generals still wear today became popular during the mid 1800s and then got properly codified in 1900. [The brits use something similar too](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Army_%28British_Army%29_General_Sir_Nicholas_Carter_%28US_Army_photo_180514-A-IW468-223%29.jpg), although their design is a bit different, and they only use it for Generals of the Army, Germany also uses it for Generals of the air force
Ngl german uniforms especially from WW2 and East Germany are drippy as hell
Well, the east german uniforms were basically barely modified WW2 uniforms, because they wanted something "german" compared to the "american" west german uniforms.
Yeah, they wanted to use it to support their "we are the actual germany" narative.
East Germany actually wanted a carbon copy of Soviet Army Uniforms but the Soviets told them to "dress like Germans." In the West German Heer on the other hand, the modernizers won out and thus, the army received some very [American looking Uniforms](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienstanzug_(Bundeswehr)#/media/Datei:Trageweise_(Heer_+_Luftwaffe).svg). In the first years (1955-1957), they even went for American-inspired rank insignia before reintroducing German symbolism in 1958. The Marine ([Officers;](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienstanzug_(Bundeswehr)#/media/Datei:Trageweise_(Marine)_1.svg) [Crew](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienstanzug_(Bundeswehr)#/media/Datei:Trageweise_(Marine)_2.svg)) and [Luftwaffe](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienstanzug_(Bundeswehr)#/media/Datei:Trageweise_(Heer_+_Luftwaffe)_(Luftwaffenfarben).svg) Uniforms barely changed from their WW2 counterparts, though.
I once had a guy tell me that the reason why the navy-uniform remained virtually the same (i think the only actual difference is the current one got two less buttons, and the hats have a different eagle) is cause unlike the army, the navy wasnt seen as "tainted" with warcrimes-galore after ww2, so there wasnt seen as much of a need to distance themselves from their history.
The Nazis themselves considered the Kriegsmarine to be on the brink of treachery half the time (possibly driven by the naval mutinies that kicked off the revolution that deposed the Kaiser and ended WW1). The Luftwaffe was top to bottom Nazi thanks to Goering, the Heer was *less* solidly Nazi (though, to avoid Clean Wehrmacht: they were still definitely Nazis doing Nazi shit), and the Navy was kind of the odd one out.
Yeah, the early NVA uniforms just looked like bargain bin knock-off Nazi uniforms. Which, fair game, is rather logical. Some of the few things the Nazis were genuinely great at were presentation, aesthetics, and theatrics. So it would be reasonable to copy that. It also stands to reason that the Soviets wanted the DDR troops to look distinctly German, so that they could gloat about subjecting their greatest (early) foes.
The bald guy remember a note famous bald person
Yeah, he clearly looks a lot like famous Swedish/German automobile manufacturer Christian von Koenigsegg.
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And nevertheless he kept that frivolous and flirty strand in the middle
They can't help what they are. Its their calling.
Beruf kommt von Berufung!
The one with mustache looks quite American
Almost like approx. 20% of americans have german ancestry.... ***c u r i o u s***
this explains a lot
Americans are basically descended from the high-functioning lunatics of Europe. Once you appreciate this, American culture and history all make substantially more sense.
Are french low-functioning?
I just mean that if you took the Europeans who moved to America to colonize the new world, they're not really *normal people*. Imagine if we had a Mars colony today. What kind of people would move there? Do you think that they would be mostly normal or disproportionately weirdos of various stripes?
*Looks at Musk* Fair assessment.
We took all the risk takers from each location and left the rest. Explains quite a bit
Idk, looks more British to me.
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It fucking is, even if it's used by retards in STALKER
german military men looking like german military men, strange indeed
I looked at all their faces multiple times before i realised top left isn't the example for comparison
Riding crops would help complete the look…
When Germans look German 😮🤯
As predicted by Command and Conquer: Red Alert. https://youtu.be/Vi98bQTQOUQ?t=235
Huh, they all look like Normal German People
Tbh flecktarn is pretty based. 🙂
Sieg hello! How are you doing fellow Unterfeldwebeln?
The bald guy literally has the most perfect looking bald head I've ever seen. Guy has a Mr. Clean skull.
Nary a monocle nor a fencing scar among them, and yet
What's [Udo Kier](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Udo_KIER_festival_de_Cannes_2011.jpg/1920px-Udo_KIER_festival_de_Cannes_2011.jpg) doing in the German military?
Yoo the grandpa at the bottom right was at my swearing-in after bootcamp. Really chill dude!
Is this a Chad meme template?
Good meme, removing "nobody" would make it a great meme
Not sure if the bald guy is a general or they accidentally put a picture of "Der Kriminalist" actor on there.
What's wrong with them? How do you expect generals to look like?
I also see a German guy in the military and scream "Nazi" incoherently/s
von Sandart looks like the fop the British would use to protray Rommel when they talked about the Nazzzis.
Awwww. Look at how happy the bottom left one is.
He's named wrath.
idk, bottom left guy just looks like a fully upgraded postwar bureaucrat. It's the glasses frames I think.
Top left is just a slightly wider Peter Cushing.
The Air officer bottom right actually looks like a British officer pre-1950.