They are wearing stahlhelms again and doing torchlit parades in front of the leader. Do they not know this is a very bad aesthetic for them, does the Red Army need to roll into Berlin again since they obviously didn't learn their lesson from last time.
I mean, it's a military doing military things. I don't like it but how is it worse than any other militaries doing military things?
Their military traditions come from the fucking nazis so yeah, it’s an extra level of terrible.
This particular one "only" comes from Prussian militarism via the Nazis
And Nazi militarism is just Prussian militarism taken to its logical conclusion.
In that case, we shouls torpedo the whole thing and make the Germans wear pastel colors only.
Unironically making Bavaria the new face of Germany is the second best thing.
Hitler fucking hate lederhosen
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If only it was just the military traditions they got from the nazis...
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Which one of their traditions comes from the Nazis?
Easy one: the version of the grand tattoo performed in “reunified” germany removes the section from the DDR version that honored the victims of fascism and militarism.
There was a whole part focused on everyone who died during the first German Communist revolutions of 1918-19, the Nazi regime, and the subsequent resistance during WW2.
Also, if your cultural military traditions have been co-opted by the textbook embodiment of evil, just drop them.
There’s a whole “traditionless” movement for the military in Germany because of the increase in “clean Wehrmacht” neo-nazis that showed up when Germany started accepting Syrian refugees.
Good luck!
I don't understand what your response means, are you saying "good luck in removing nazi traditions"? Because like... yeah, that's the whole point.
They don’t have a military, though.
edit: nevermind
They don’t? Then who the fuck is marching in this?
I was going to say I was surprised Germany was able to keep their military while Japan didn’t, but Germany is also European / majority white soooo
Nevermind, apparently they too are allowed to play with toys.
edit: so Japan has a self defense force, not technically an army. But they have 52 billion in military expenditure on the books ….and so does Germany making these two the eight and ninth most funded miliaries in the world rsspectively.
Imperial forces gonna imperial
Lmfao of fucking course both of them liberaled their ways back into imperialism
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Germany was only allowed to keep their military after a brief hiatus because of East Germany.
The US planned on military intervention in East Germany and wanted to use the FRG as a staging ground for a third war.
The DDR demilitarized after the war and even banned military toys (like for kids) until they were forced to remilitarize in response to FRG agression.
Both militaries maintained some of the old traditions, this was one of them.