For anyone who cares, this is the "Große Zapfenstreich". A Nazi-ass looking official military ceremony for political office holders and high military ranks.
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That's appropriate because most Nazis in government were rehabilitated and right back in power within a decade of hte war.
its so fuking obvious they want to look like nazis, where's the Stasi when you need them :sicko-wistful:
all germans are hereby forbidden from taking up a formation and marching in step
and those silly helmets are nazi era. lol
euro military pomp is fucking gross in all the countries
Developed at that time at least. They didn't see use till the DDR, and where the closest match to soviet helmets of the ones they had available. A lot of helmets post war are modifications or use the Stahlhelm as a basis, or the Italian helmets which Yugoslavia used in the immediate aftermath
großer Zapfenstreich , Prussian Military Relikt , but before you go all crazy , actually it is the most uncool crinch Shit the Military of a country can do , seriously its horrible Boring ... , no cool tanks no cool Fighter jets ... , just some crinch Marsch - Music in the evening with Torches..
Seriously I challenge every Chud with a wierd Germany Facination (Like defending Wehrmachtssoldiert etc.. ) to sit through those 45 Minutes and not pray for another Easter Front you could send this embaressment into... , they even show it on the TV ... Morgenthau Plan please ...
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basically all modern military helmets used in nato countries look like that.
The only Germans that should have marched was the GDR Nationale Volksarmee through the Fulda Gap.
People forget that for a few decades there WAS a good Germany
Fulda Gap
This reminds me that the absolutely deranged and bloodthirsty Americans had designed atomic land minds for the Fulda Gap. Just a nice little grim tidbit about how fucking insane the west is.
They were designed to have a chicken sitting inside to keep vital components warm
"The birds would be put inside the casing of the bomb, given seed to keep them alive and stopped from pecking at the wiring," the BBC notes. The chickens' body heat would be enough to maintain the triggering mechanism's working temperature. In all, the chickens would be estimated to survive for a week, after which time the bomb would return to a possibly cooled and inoperable state.
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In all, the landmines designed in Operation Blue Peacock were thought to yield a 10-kiloton explosion which would produce a crater 375 feet in diameter, according to the American Digest. Such destructive potential ultimately led to the abandonment of the project as the British realized that there would be an unacceptable amount of nuclear fallout from such a blast — never mind the complicated issue of burying nuclear weapons within the territory of an allied nation.
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By 1958, after the production of only two prototypes, Operation Blue Peacock was abandoned.
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Looks like they're prepping for the Ark of the Covenant ritual from Raiders
Listen, we REALLY needed help with NASA, concessions needed to be made
No torches. Please stop the torches. Even seeing the DDR with torches was unnerving.
