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Hess, Himmler, Goebbels, Goering, .... none of the Nazi inner circle hierarchy were examples of the Aryan ideal. Makes you wonder about the smarts of the people that worshiped and glorified these miscreants.

The Nazi youth organizations stressed health and physical fitness along with the ideals of National Socialism. Good stuff until it got tangled up with the negative political aspects of the program.
 
Speaking of Hitlerjugend...

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Boy soldiers are nothing new.
 
Sharps '63 said:
Hess, Himmler, Goebbels, Goering, .... none of the Nazi inner circle hierarchy were examples of the Aryan ideal. Makes you wonder about the smarts of the people that worshiped and glorified these miscreants.
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Yeah, Hess was a flake, Himmler a senior civil servant, Goebbels a spin doktor, and Goering, that fat #####--Had it not been for Hitler's blunders, Hermann could've lost the war single-handedly.

But "our side" had some pretty whacky-jacky leaders over the years, too. Maybe not as bad as those other guys, but not exactly worthy of worship and glory, either.
 
Sharps '63 said:
This junge looks like he's a member of the Kindergarten Grenadiers, just out of his Hitler Jugend lederhosen. What a travesty and betrayal of youth.
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War, though often inevitable is a travesty and betrayal of all mankind, not just youth. Your comment is true though with good insight.
 
Ow.

I'm re-reading Dave Grossman's On Killing (yes, very Christmas-y reading, that) and apparently, getting folks comfortable with sticking their thumbs and/or fingers in someone's eyes is a challenge. Grossman says we have a hard-wired resistance against that sort of thing in particular, what with owning eyes and all.

I have no idea what that young man did to warrant being the demonstration dummy for that exercise, but he must have pissed the training officer off something awful.
 
"Ich oder Du!"

I ran across a WWII manual one time with that title. It was designed to engender a fighting spirit in Allied soldiers by showing the high moral and discipline of Wehrmacht soldiers. It might have eased the consciences of some about the use of 'dirty' street fighting tactics.
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Stone Cold Pimpin', 1945 style:

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Great jeep pictures, but the Americans where not the only ones doing this.

^How to turn this, into.

^This. In post war Europe cars where few and far between so if it involved "making" a car out of a Kubel or schwimmwagen then so be it. No ideas back then the prices we would see today. And yes that is a type 166 schwimmwagen under all that new tin work, to be honest whoever did the work did a decent looking (bubba) job of it.
 
Hmmm... Looks like it might be the same driver in both VeeDubs.
Personally, I prefer the original look to that post-war POS, but then the OEM one might not have been too popular in the New Germany...
and now he's driving a Bimmer!
 
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(Wehrmacht) Opel Olympia Cabriolet body grafted on to a MB/GPW chassis to make something more "car like" out of the two. Interesting hood/fender marking on the jeep in Dark Alleys picture its not a Constabulary Corp hood marking and I believe it is the marking for jeeps sold surplus to US service members on Occupation duty. Also the rear distant jeep sports a civilian plate as so the "car". A great little series of pictures showing the products of "Bubbas Garage" being turned out in post war Germany.
 
Speaking of Jeeps and derivatives, there's the Citroën Méhari: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_Méhari

All plastic body. Designed by a Frenchman who was a pilot in this squadron in WWII: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandie-Niemen and was awarded the Gold Star Hero of the Soviet Union.

the Yak was quite a plane: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-1

The importance of this type in World War II is often underestimated. Soviet naming conventions obscure the fact that the Yak-1 and its successors — the Yak-7, Yak-9 and Yak-3 — are essentially the same design, comparable to the numerous Spitfire or Bf 109 variants. Were the Yaks considered as one type, the 37,000 built would constitute the most produced fighter in history.
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The pilots of the Normandie-Niemen squadron were given their Yaks at the end of the war by Stalin and flew them back in Paris.

Clever little piece of politicking by DeGaulle sending them out there, although the pilots paid a heavy price.


 
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