Honestly I’m not even a fan of NatSoc, but Nazi officer aesthetic is the fucking best.
Honestly though.
That’s gotta be the most anticlimactic sentence to ever start with, “I’m not a Nazi, but…”
Sorry to disappoint.
It is though. The image of a respectable decorated German man dressed in black fatigues is a thing to behold.
I honestly just really love Nazi aesthetic in general (like the red and black and the uniforms 👌)
Too bad they were fucking nutsNazi uniforms were explicitly designed to look good.
So much so that they were entirely impractical. From @prokopetz
Let me give you an example: suspenders. Back in the 1930s, the modern tactical harness hadn’t yet been developed. Instead, soldiers would wear a sturdy pair of leather suspenders in order to help distribute the weight of their ammo belts (which could be substantial – bullets aren’t light!). Hitler didn’t care for that – he thought it would make his troops look like farmers. Instead, he commissioned his uniform designers to come up with a complicated system of internal suspenders that could be worn under the uniform jacket, with metal hooks projecting from special holes near the jacket’s waistline. The idea was that the ammo belt would rest on the hooks, thus allowing it to be supported without disrupting the jacket’s clean lines.
The problem? The system’s designers, being accustomed to crafting for the runway, had completely overlooked that soldiers sometimes need to move quickly. At any pace quicker than a brisk walk, the ammo belt would bounce off of the hooks and slide down the wearer’s torso, often tripping him in the process. Worse, news of the issue didn’t filter back to the high command until the uniforms had already been widely distributed, so it was impossible to fix in an economical fashion. The Nazi troops eventually resorted to wearing external suspenders over the internal suspenders in order to keep their ammo belts in place, thus entirely defeating the purpose.
The link goes more in depth. It’s hilarious.
Oh my god
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