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[Underseer]

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The soldiers in the background are dressed in Waffen SS uniforms. Makes the caption even more priceless. You can't make this shit up.

You're just criticizing the Republican front-runner because you hate America and you hate our freedoms. [/conservolibertarian]

 

[4321lynx]

Be that as iot may I don't see any SS badges or uniforms on these seemingly German Uniforms. ??Wehrmacht only?

 

[Keith&Co.]

Be that as iot may I don't see any SS badges or uniforms on these seemingly German Uniforms. ??Wehrmacht only?

it's a little clearer in the stock photo.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/insane-story-behind-trumps-nazi-tweet

 

[beero1000]

Be that as iot may I don't see any SS badges or uniforms on these seemingly German Uniforms. ??Wehrmacht only?

It is clearer from the original image, but you can definitely see the SS eagles on their left arms. The internet has already identified them as late war, eastern front, Waffen SS uniforms.

 

[4321lynx]

Be that as iot may I don't see any SS badges or uniforms on these seemingly German Uniforms. ??Wehrmacht only?

it's a little clearer in the stock photo.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/insane-story-behind-trumps-nazi-tweet

Am not an expert on uniforms, but these seem to be German Wehrmacht uniforms. Hard to tell, the angle is deceptive; but the helmets look more like paratroop helmets than standard army ones. I stand to be corrected.
That the photographer and journalist say "Nazis" proves nothing. Seems the fashion to say Nazis when one means Germans, when talking of the late WW II these days, kind of takes the burden off the recent ancestors of the present-day inhabitants of that country. Seems Politically Correct, anyway.

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I see above, I was corrected even before posting my 2 centsworth.

 

[Potoooooooo]

 

[4321lynx]

Be that as iot may I don't see any SS badges or uniforms on these seemingly German Uniforms. ??Wehrmacht only?

It is clearer from the original image, but you can definitely see the SS eagles on their left arms. The internet has already identified them as late war, eastern front, Waffen SS uniforms.

Sorry to be picky but "The Internet" can be wrong.

See -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_German_Army_ranks_and_insignia

National Emblem (breast eagle): Hoheitszeichen or Wehrmachtsadler
Breast eagles
1935
1939
1940
1944
Tropical

The Reichswehr's visual acknowledgement of the new National Socialist reality came on 17 February 1934, when the Defense Ministry [1] ordered the Nazi Party eagle-and-swastika, now Germany's National Emblem, to be worn on uniform blouses and headgear effective 1 May. The design adopted, in silver for the Reichsheer (Army) and in gold for the Reichsmarine (Navy), was a stylized eagle with outstretched, beveled wings clutching a wreathed mobile Hakenkreuz, later to be called the Wehrmachtsadler ("Armed Forces eagle").[2] On tunics this took the form of a cloth patch about 9 cm (3⅝") wide worn on the right breast, above the pocket. For enlisted uniforms it was jacquard-woven ("BeVo") or sometimes machine-embroidered in silver-grey rayon, for officers machine- or hand-embroidered in white silk or bright aluminum wire, and for generals hand-embroidered in gold bullion.[3] The backing was "badge-cloth" (Abzeichentuch), a close-woven velvetish fabric; this was originally Reichsheer grey, but in late 1935 the renamed Wehrmacht Heer changed its Abzeichentuch color to a dark blue-green called flaschengrün (bottle-green).

These are not SS Eagles, they are Nazi Party insignia to be worn as Right chest adorments and some hat/cap adornments by all German army units from 1934/35 on. Later some units transferred their Eagles to their sleeves on their field tunics, these tunics being shown here. The camouflage and its type seen here also proves nothing as many Wehrmacht units used the type originally produced for the Waffen SS.

So I will go back to my original opinion or the Scottish variation of it and say the SS uniform case is "Not Proven".

Apologies again, but the phrase, " the internet already has identified them as", kind of got to me on second reading.

I know of no Infallible God(ess) of the Internet, and therefore need more details of it/her/him and its/her/his grounds for this pronouncement.

None of the above is to deny that Trump is a citified, rich, ignorant and stupid, Redneck Neonazi in most of his views, and a complete arsehole, as he proves himself to be day after day, out of his own mouth. What that says about his mob of Redneck admirers I leave everyone to conclude on their own.

 

[beero1000]

It is clearer from the original image, but you can definitely see the SS eagles on their left arms. The internet has already identified them as late war, eastern front, Waffen SS uniforms.

Sorry to be picky but "The Internet" can be wrong.

See -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_German_Army_ranks_and_insignia

National Emblem (breast eagle): Hoheitszeichen or Wehrmachtsadler
Breast eagles
1935
1939
1940
1944
Tropical

The Reichswehr's visual acknowledgement of the new National Socialist reality came on 17 February 1934, when the Defense Ministry [1] ordered the Nazi Party eagle-and-swastika, now Germany's National Emblem, to be worn on uniform blouses and headgear effective 1 May. The design adopted, in silver for the Reichsheer (Army) and in gold for the Reichsmarine (Navy), was a stylized eagle with outstretched, beveled wings clutching a wreathed mobile Hakenkreuz, later to be called the Wehrmachtsadler ("Armed Forces eagle").[2] On tunics this took the form of a cloth patch about 9 cm (3⅝") wide worn on the right breast, above the pocket. For enlisted uniforms it was jacquard-woven ("BeVo") or sometimes machine-embroidered in silver-grey rayon, for officers machine- or hand-embroidered in white silk or bright aluminum wire, and for generals hand-embroidered in gold bullion.[3] The backing was "badge-cloth" (Abzeichentuch), a close-woven velvetish fabric; this was originally Reichsheer grey, but in late 1935 the renamed Wehrmacht Heer changed its Abzeichentuch color to a dark blue-green called flaschengrün (bottle-green).

These are not SS Eagles, they are Nazi Party insignia to be worn as Right chest adorments and some hat/cap adornments by all German army units from 1934/35 on. Later some units transferred their Eagles to their sleeves on their field tunics, these tunics being shown here. The camouflage and its type seen here also proves nothing as many Wehrmacht units used the type originally produced for the Waffen SS.

So I will go back to my original opinion or the Scottish variation of it and say the SS uniform case is "Not Proven".

Apologies again, but the phrase, " the internet already has identified them as", kind of got to me on second reading.

I know of no Infallible God(ess) of the Internet, and therefore need more details of it/her/him and its/her/his grounds for this pronouncement.

None of the above is to deny that Trump is a citified, rich, ignorant and stupid, Redneck Neonazi in most of his views, and a complete arsehole, as he proves himself to be day after day, out of his own mouth. What that says about his mob of Redneck admirers I leave everyone to conclude on their own.

I know sarcasm can be hard to pick up in text, but I added a smiley ferchrissakes.

 

[4321lynx]

OK
More apologies, then. A wink would have been as good as a nod, to coin a dead horse,

 

[Jayjay]

 

[Potoooooooo]

 

[repoman]

 

[spikepipsqueak]

 

[Potoooooooo]

 

[C_Mucius_Scaevola]

 

[Potoooooooo]

 

[bilby]

 

[Jayjay]

I'm not sure if floormats are worth it.

 

[C_Mucius_Scaevola]

Couldn't resist posting another couple of pics of this bird. Just because it's fucking hilarious.

BTW, it's called a potoo, if you didn't know. No, not a Potoooooooo. A potoo.

They come in white, too ...

 

[Angry Floof]

I love that bird. What a face!