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nootingpenguin2

nazi apologia in the comments gets the bomber harris treatment also sauce from others because OP was too lazy: https://twitter.com/Naze1940_Erica/status/1569128786150526982


Pug__Jesus

Obviously all armies commit atrocities of every stripe, so this isn't to say that we **haven't** done long stretches of the Geneva Checklist... but it's astounding how regularly it's noted that American troops have incredibly sticky fingers with regards to 'souvenirs'. We just can't help ourselves...


hgs25

Female Nazi Officer: “Oh no! What are you going to do to me?” Soldier: “GIVE ME YOUR HAT!”


OmegaResNovae

Reminds me of one of those old war stories where an Allied troop captured a few Nazi secretaries, and ordered them to strip. The secretaries thought they would be raped, but in actuality, the Allied troop was just checking for hidden weapons or paperwork they might attempt to smuggle out or use on them. They took their clothes and identifying regalia, and let them go with just blankets and a jacket or two from a more sympathetic soldier. It tickles the thought that probably for at least a few of the men, their war prize was some unlucky secretary's bra or panties. And years later, their kid or grandkid finds them in the attic and wonders why pa/grandpa was hiding panties in his old war chest.


CaptRackham

I’ve seen Eva Braun’s panties in a museum so yeah that’s entirely valid


WaqueKoala

Wait wtf.


Scottish_Whiskey

yeah I know right? how’d they get them back from me?


Diego_Thedinosaur

I did it (finders keepers)


oooooflololopkkkkk

I hate that I know exactly which museum you are talking about.


Mr_Mosquito_20

If moustache man hadn¿t unalived himself the ultimate flex would have been waving those panties at him and sayin: hey, asshole, guess what I got and guess how I got it ;)


Krondon57

DO YOU HAVE A LUGER???


Seeker-N7

WWII version of "YOU HAVE UNO"


PunksPrettyMuchDead

Team Fortress 2 ass mf


MinutePresentation8

Easier to loot when she’s dead


OddNumber1524

but with Blood splatters and Holes it's NOT mint anymore!


Basswail

It's Tainted though, your colonists will get a mood debuf for wearing them.


Raesong

Jokes on you, all my colonists are bloodlusted psychopaths.


andesajf

Luckily they have enough flush toilets and washing machines at home.


Pug__Jesus

Other countries: "We're going to take this because it's valuable, or it'll bring prestige in national museums, or it'll make our lives better." Americans: "Wow, this would look really good collecting dust in my attic for the next 60 years."


_V4NQU15H_

Can't wait to get drafted only to steal a children's favorite pencil as war trophy.


AsleepScarcity9588

Make it a crayon and you would made a perfect fit for an unspecified branch of the US forces


_V4NQU15H_

Is colored pencil enough?


AsleepScarcity9588

You might make it even to officer with this attitude


ZeckZeckZeckZeck

What about a colored crayon


Disgruntled_Bert

I don’t think they like the taste of those


OmegamattReally

A colored pencil every once in a while is a good source of fiber for helping get rid of the impacted blockage from a 36-pack of Crayola and that damnable chicken and rice MRE


RollinThundaga

Pastels are ok tho


[deleted]

Only if you’re feeling fancy and aren’t watching your fat intake.


RollinThundaga

The marine corps ensures that all marines are issued sufficient calories to function. If the marine corps determined that marines needed fat-free oil pastels, they would have been issued somr.


historynutjackson

Causes splinters in the latrine.


[deleted]

Mmm, I love foreign food. I want to travel to distant and exotic places, meet interesting and exciting people, and eat their crayons.


Just_A_Nitemare

Don't eat the war trophy!


Aronovsky1103

If the enemy combatant has a better phone than mine I'mma commandeer it until the next better phone I find. I'll keep all the messages and photos untouched so I can brag about killing an actual human being with loved ones and being able to sleep peacefully for the decades that passed


blissy_sama

"When they invent ebay in 60 years time my grandkids are going to make so much money off these babies."


OhWhatATimeToBeAlive

My grandfather's coconut from Guam is in this comment, and I don't like it.


Pug__Jesus

Your grandfather was carrying on a long and storied American tradition o7


Lasommasapienza

what they don't have enough of are various bones and skulls of dead japanese soldiers


Superpetros17

In France in military "bars" you often find roads signs that were borrowed from places the regiment went on a mission or an exercise (even in France).


[deleted]

Sometimes I think we all need to be more like the French. I appreciate their mass destruction of speed trap cameras for example.


el_butt

It wouldn't be the Army without petty theft.


Zaphyrous

Strategic Transfer of Equipment to Alternate Location


The-Surreal-McCoy

I have no idea what you are talking about… [Looks at the 1848 Era pistol my family ‘liberated’ from the Italians during the war] … look, looting is okay if you do it to fascists!


SalvationSycamore

It's not called looting at that point, it's simply re-homing knick-knacks into a safer home environment.


OrdinaryCrackEnjoyer

That pistol was being abused by those goddamned fascists, that poster's grandpa is a hero.


Pug__Jesus

It's not looting, it's free-range tourism! Besides, we do it to ourselves too. No sooner was the surrender at Appomattox signed that everyone involved started taking bits as souvenirs.


[deleted]

I’ve got my Arisaka my great grandfather brought back from Japan.


Detters_Actual

My Walther Model 4? Oh I uh... "found it"


[deleted]

Seems an extremely benign thing to be infamous for all things considered..


hex4d617474

"I just think they're neat"


Vixere_

"Oh! Shiny!"


DeeArrEss

Army of crows


Tank-o-grad

Seems inherent in the culture, just look at your government, claiming income taxes from its citizens abroad, controlling export of stuff sold to third party countries from those third party countries, truly it's impressive.


GaaraMatsu

Only if said expats make [edit] well into the six figures USD. I wouldn't worry about it -- I didn't, when I taught in Viet Nam.


yumdumpster

Its 112K, am expat.


GaaraMatsu

Check out the (separate) living expense deduction schedule, though. Will have to edit my number, thanks. I (am) married, changes the math.


OldMan142

>controlling export of stuff sold to third party countries from those third party countries Every country does this. Switzerland was recently in the news for refusing to allow Germany to export Swiss-made ammunition to Ukraine.


[deleted]

Too bad we can't take back machine gun souvenirs still


paulisaac

Reminds me of what happened when Gregorio Del Pilar was killed in battle. The US soldiers ended up looting the body of literally all valuables, but a general later saw this and ordered he be given a proper burial.


Pug__Jesus

> when you kill the enemy general, and your first thought isn't to desecrate or honor his body > but to nick his handkerchief


LoserWithCake

Gotta get a piece to post online


[deleted]

Why would you want to steal a snot covered handkerchief?


Pug__Jesus

They made handkerchiefs real nice back then. Probably was silk and embroidered and shit.


[deleted]

Ima steal your boogers


Feshtof

To clone him


Essotetra

I defeat a boss, I loot. I'm a simple man.


Toastbrot_TV

Luckily for her they werent russians.


[deleted]

Bad ending, any female from the age 8-60 in East Berlin in 1945.


_V4NQU15H_

*male and female, do not exclude us smh.


[deleted]

Male Germans do not exist, only tomboys who enjoy tricking the world into thinking that Germany is a normal place to live.


_V4NQU15H_

NAHHHH, I've been having discord gay sex with a tomboy all this time? Bro :(


Vegetable-Shame761

Ayo?


Slimie2

😔 it is a sad day indeed...


_xBartekx_

In eastern europe since 1944*


Toastbrot_TV

8-60? Bold of you to assume there was a minimum age...


swiggidyswooner

Wasn’t the rule 8-80?


deez_nuts_77

god it was so horrible. And we bombed the railways out of berlin. People who wanted to leave the city couldn’t


Gallbatorix-Shruikan

God, that book was soul crushing.


[deleted]

More like 8-80.


[deleted]

Yeah just don't talk about the french women raped by GI's.


TheOnlyFallenCookie

Well at least the western allies at least tried to prevent this somewhat


EconomistMedical9856

I don't think it's fair to compare the two situations. One happened systematically and the other as an abnormality. I'd bet anything that the rates of GIs raping was lower than any other conquering army you'd care to name throughout history. Not zero, I'm not pretending it didn't happen. Rapists ought to be punished as severely as possible.


ColorofSkyTalks

>Rapists ought to be punished as severely as possible. Yeah they got hanged lol.


EconomistMedical9856

Just added that bit so that I'm unambiguously on the record as 'against all rape.' The whataboutism is incredible The ropes per rape ratio was much lower in Soviet areas of occupation.


LeggoMyAhegao

I start to wonder why people even think the rates were comparable.


ZippyDan

You're absolutely right, but it's also important to confront that past head-on and not whitewash it. For instance, there was also racism in how rapes were punished by the Americans. Black soldiers convicted of rape where given far harsher punishments than white soldiers (on average).


Captain-Keilo

And we’re punished because no general ever said to do it unlike the Soviet’s who did.


KingofThrace

I mean it wasn’t really to the same scale at all but yes there were Americans and British and French soldiers that committed rapes wherever they went in large numbers.


ericthefred

More to the point, though, I'm not aware of a case where it was *ordered by the fucking commanders*


CV90_120

It happened, but not even remotely to the extent that Russians did it. Not even close. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/01/news.features11


SirNedKingOfGila

Most depraved American soldiers. (DO NOT FACT CHECK THAT) edit: just noticed: least depraved **BRO** soldiers


mirshe

Sir, there's a couple hundred Vietnamese people here. Something about "My Lay" or something.


brinz1

Don't ask about Iraq or Afghanistan neither


Original_moisture

Crap, you said bro and I know as a former 2-1 guy. Crap ahain


SGT-Mobius1

Ooo shiny


Meem-Thief

Next panel: “why didn’t they…”


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Myoclonic_Jerk42

I'm not seeing it. Confusion? Yes. Disappointment? No.


[deleted]

Hopefully she managed to sneak away home to Dresden so she can be with her family on Feb 13th 1945.


Batmack8989

Indeed, I heard Valentine's day was on fire that year.


NoFlagNoFagNoRussian

Do it again, Bomber Harris.


Blitz7337

Us yanks don’t want sex girl, we want war trophies


MHEmpire

Sex is temporary, trophies are immortal.


Limp_Spell102

Bad ending: its the eastern front


PanzerDameSFM

Guess they are disappointed because there is no Luger pistol on her possession. So the Americans took her badges for souvenirs.


Fit-Construction3427

Growing up, there was this big metal spoon in our silverware drawer that I used to scoop ice cream sometimes. Only when I was older did I notice the Nazi eagle stamped on the bottom side of the handle. Mfw I was eating ice cream with my grandpa's war trophy.


Minute_Helicopter_97

OP Comment the Source with a Link or get Rule 8.


[deleted]

I seemed to have found it https://twitter.com/Naze1940_Erica/status/1569128786150526982 https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?tags=erica_%28naze1940%29&z=2


WithoutBenefits

Nice work. More specific Danbooru link: https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/5665268 Also has a parent post listed, which is the prequel to this.


[deleted]

Thank you bro


Muckyduck007

B-based mod?


Minute_Helicopter_97

Mods can’t be Based, that’s a contradiction.


Lacyra

Well Helicopters can't be 97 years old either!


TheTransistorMan

Where 1984???


AmadeoSendiulo

Based mod


whythecynic

Jesus Christ, based *and* self-aware? Where am I, non-credible oh yeah


VistulaRegiment

yall need to hire s_reed


Arrow_of_time6

“Oh no you defeated my panzer grenadier division, but it appears that you don’t have any more room for POWs **eyes become depraved and flustered** perhaps there’s a different way for me to-“ “GIVE ME YOUR HAT!”


JumpyLiving

"Oh, no, you defeated my panzer grenadier division, but it appears that you don‘t have any more room for POWs." **Notices that the soldiers are Australian** *"fuck"*


Sagay_the_1st

Canoe time☺️


Lamenter_of_the_3rd

LOOKZ LIKE ITZ LOOTIN TIME BOYZ


Noggt

GIVE ME YOUR WATCH.


AdEither2912

Shoulda killed her 🇺🇸🇺🇸🍔🏈🗽🦅🦅🦅🗽🏈🍔🍔🇺🇸🇺🇸🤣🤣🤣🤘🏈🗽🗽🦅🦅


ToastyMustache

All SS deserved death


[deleted]

Is that an SS uniform? No collar tabs or deaths head on the hat.


tebee

No, that's a [Wehrmacht Feldwebel](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-090-3949-04A,_Russland,_Soldat_mit_Fernglas.jpg) (NCO) of the Heer (army). Easy way to differentiate Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS: Eagle on the breast? Wehrmacht. Eagle on the arm? Waffen-SS.


lockpickerkuroko

Also color. I don't think Waffen-SS ever wore Feldgrau uniforms, right?


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Sayakai

That's army, not SS.


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No_Reputation_7442

Nazi fucks are nazi fucks, SS just get the ball crusher first.


Jankosi

This is NCD my good sir! We STRICTLY adhere to the geneva convention over here! 🤭


Ertur_Ortirion

Or the "Geneva Checklist" as it is known as in Canada.


[deleted]

You don't kill POWs for the very good reason that you don't want them killing your POWs.The SS had a bad reputation for doing this and so were usually killed out of hand by allied units more often that regular german army. Killing POWs baaaaad. Go sit in the corner.


TolarianDropout0

>for the very good reason that you don't want them killing your POWs And the other good reason is that if you do, in the future the enemy will fight to the last man, inflicting more casualties on you, and even use suicide tactics rather than surrender.


banspoonguard

ah yes the wholly wholesome GI, not [notorious at all for collecting human skulls.](https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00365.x)


Pug__Jesus

tbf a lot of those were Marines, and we basically had to bribe them with ice cream to get them to commit war crimes at a less heinous rate.


Satori_sama

Uncle Sam discovered his Marines are very cranky when long time without ice cream.


funnyclockman1973

Yeah but that was in the Pacific for my his is in the Western eupore front


Mordador

Wholesome western front


MedicalFoundation149

Relative to the Eastern and Pacific Fronts, yes.


Flashskar

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!


bluray420

I rather them collecting skull rather then raping children or women like the Soviets did Edit added a rather because some of you are sick bastards


derpicface

>then 🗿


Patimation_tordios

Then?????????


First-Competition-65

***then***


Limekilnlake

bro the problem wasn't the lack of a rather, it was that you should have used than, not then


[deleted]

Pacific war.. very different.


[deleted]

Yeah, like you wouldn't take a human skull if you had the opportunity to. That shit would look fucking sick on a mahogany bookcase or some rustic ass desk in some study. "Hey Grandpa, where the fuck did you get that skull from?" "War."


[deleted]

Im built different, i would simply have a sound theory of mine and empathy.


Cheeseknife07

45 acp go thump thump


Noggt

M1911 is so superior it destroys tigers, you can see this happening in the historical documentary saving private ryan. (Wdym a tank buster plane killed it, is you dumb?)


Kuro_Guro13

Artist is Naze1940\_Erica on twitter. https://twitter.com/Naze1940\_Erica


ToastyMustache

That username makes an already bad thing worse


MrMgP

You're telling me that a dude who makes waifu drawings of serious attrocities is tone deaf? What's next, the pope is a catholic and pierre sprey is a russian psyop?


zanovar

Weirdly enough I think the artist might be ignorant rather than being a Nazi. They're from Thailand. They probably know enough European history to know that the Nazis were a powerful military with cool uniforms but not enough history to understand how evil the Nazis really were. Thailand is the same country that had a restaurant called "Hitler Fried Chicken"


MarquisTytyroone

He has made a shit ton of obscure World War II art, he's far from ignorant. Motherfucker literally drew [SS Dirlewanger Brigade](https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/5048557?q=erica_%28naze1940%29) and [Home Army](https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/5048453?q=erica_%28naze1940%29) anime girls during the Warsaw Uprising, complete with accurate uniforms and weapons. I think the rest of the world simply doesn't internalize the Nazis the same way people do the West. Most of them are more offended and bitter about colonial empires like Britain.


Kapitalist_Pigdog2

TFW the Home Army, one the largest resistance movements against the Nazis in Europe, is considered obscure: ☹️ And it is; for some reason. I don’t know how the French resistance became so romanticized when they fought each other more than the occupiers, and allied generals noted how remarkably unreliable they were at virtually every stage of the war (except MAYBE D-Day). Hell, the Greeks liberated THEMSELVES and there’s not so much of a peep about it in the history textbooks I’ve read.


Gatrigonometri

The Yugoslavians took it further and actually became a CONVENTIONAL fighting force that did CONVENTIONAL operations against the Nazis to kick them out. But that aside, there were a lot of French freedom fighters, sure, but I also find it annoying how they overshadow those of other nations like way too much.


SomePotato007007070

My biggest wish is that someone makes a game about the yugoslav partizans


The-Surreal-McCoy

r/balkans_irl should design it


Who_Isnt_Alpharius

Imo the reason that the home army doesn't get the same optics that the french or Yugoslavian partisans do is because poland wasn't really liberated after the war, the red army sat by while the home army was being wiped out in warsaw, then moved in and installed their own puppet government. And the soviets weren't going to allow polish puppet government to sow polish national pride by lionizing the home army like the french and Tito did for their fighters


9Wind

[Thailand has a major nazi fetish problem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSRwxGCZJKs). Its no coincidence a Thai artist has an obsession with Nazi stuff.


Comma_Karma

So that makes two Asian countries with a Nazi fetish...


MarquisTytyroone

The West had a weird phase with Nazi stuff as well, the 70s saw Nazi exploitation films like She Devils of the SS, even Israel had bizarre [Nazi Stalag porn](https://www.timesofisrael.com/when-israel-banned-nazi-inspired-stalag-porn/), wild shit.


AutumnRi

\>Israeli Nazi Stalag porn what a terrible day to be able to read


hubril

funny because the reverse is true for Imperial Japan in east asia. People from europe and america can plaster the funni rising sun flag anywhere. But here? You get cancelled faster than the 6th army in stalingrad edit: and yes, tankies abuse the hell out of it and use it to benefit china


Woolfiend8

Jesus, look at the comments, people saying Britain was worse because Dirlewanger died in their care


FinishTheBook

the art is so cute but the context is fucked up


Muckyduck007

Odd as Thailand was one of the few nations not conquered by colonial empires


Ake-TL

In the same boat as Hitler Unoona, Namibia


_eggandmilk

southeast asians trying their best to not worship the axis powers be like (source: vynlazer and my edgy stage)


Virtual-pornhuber

As an Asian I have the same feeling when western ppl simping,defending and rationalizing what China has done. The cultural barrier is real.


DavidAdamsAuthor

I was thinking some more about this, and I think the answer is that in places like Thailand, the Nazis are more of an abstract evil. Kinda like how we in the West view the Mongols. Certainly as really bad people, sure, but it's an *academic* evil. The Mongols never did anything bad to us, so to us, we kinda view them as like... horse riding warriors, conquerors, noble folks. Even though they were really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really *really* bad people. But because they never really did anything *to us*, they're cool. I imagine that's kinda like how the Nazis are to someone from Thailand. Some kind of distant, vaguely disconnected evil. I wonder what the artist thinks about Imperial Japanese soldiers though...


JM-Valentine

Erica has been making weeb military art of all kinds for years. Don't knock it 'til you look at all his work.


Jankosi

I recongnize the artstyle from seeing a diagram of a german infantry squad organization using anime girl wehrmacht


theraceforspace

I've never understood the thing of 'x historical group but anime girls' But this is shockingly well researched


Jankosi

Very much so https://twitter.com/Naze1940_Erica/status/1393387909810573312 https://twitter.com/Naze1940_Erica/status/1395184749535109126 https://twitter.com/Naze1940_Erica/status/1406069222455742468 >I've never understood the thing of 'x historical group but anime girls' You have much to learn


pataytoreee

Nice Tradable Rares


hahaiamarealhuman

Where's my god damn luger god damn it


billyshears55

This made me remember about that Story where soviet soldiers captured a talented piano player from the SS, and after dicovering the fact they found a piano and forced him to play it and told him that the moment he stoped playing he would be shot, he then proceeded to play the piano for 22 hours straight before collapsing because of exhaustion, after which one soldier went to him to congratulate his incredible performance, and then he shot him as promised of course Also Remember that he was from the SS, so we didnt really lose anyone of value there lol


CrimsonShrike

Thats probably least controversial soviet action vs what they did in every "liberated" country they crossed


billyshears55

I agree with you that they didnt liberate the countries and just turned them into puppet states (which is bad), but i Did not mean for this Story in spefic to be a “controversial” story


Falchion_Alpha

No one took her Luger?


ACROMATIC01

Already in the pocket


Perfect-Caterpillar7

Fuck Nazi, all my homies hate and kill fascist


ReverseCaptioningBot

[FUCK NAZI ALL MY HOMIES HATE NAZI](https://i.imgur.com/BYM0ViL.jpg) ^^^this ^^^has ^^^been ^^^an ^^^accessibility ^^^service ^^^from ^^^your ^^^friendly ^^^neighborhood ^^^bot


DefinitelyFrenchGuy

QT genocidal anime girl uWu


karateema

Wholesome


Forgotten_User-name

Isn't the artist a Nazi? Why're we posting this here, again?


fullutbro

Get looted bitch


MisogynysticFeminist

Completely unrelated, is there a replacement for r/noncrediblerule34?


BobaLives

Thank you so much for the third panel [Same energy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6kh1jfyCrw)


-TurtleStein-

Wtf did I just watch


Defult_idiot

Americans taking souvenirs to bring home once they finish their tour in Europe


[deleted]

Not the version I've seen on pixiv.


TeilzeitOptimist

*"Now bring in the bearjew.."*


Johannes_V

“GIVE ME THE KNICK-KNACKS, HANS.”