Nazis in Color

Disclaimer:The following in no way condones or supports Nazis, Neo-Nazis, or anything related to the politics and ideologies of Adolf Hitler, his cronies, the Nazi Party, or any other organization that even remotely resembles such...

I gotta admit, the Nazis knew how to dress... The parade dress and walking-out dress uniforms are just too damn sharp.. To quote Trevor Howard in The Great Escape.. "Slap your gloves on your thigh, padre, strut a bit more... Style! That's what the bloody Boche have, Padre, Style!" 

A US Marine in dress blues is at least as impressive as anything the Germans had.

Not to me... The high collar on the jacket, the khaki shirt over blue trousers, white hat... Just not my style...   'Sides, I already got my Dress Blues... US Army type, that is... 

smeagol the vile wrote:

allies might have had better weapons, and better scientists... but those nazis, they had the world cornered for fashion designers

They sure did, Hugo Boss made some of those uniforms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss

"The all-black uniform of the Nazi Schutzstaffel paramilitary force from 1932 until 1945 was designed by SS-Oberführer Prof. Dr. Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck (graphic designer) and made by the Hugo Boss company, some workers being prisoners of war forced into labor.^[1][2]

In the third quarter of 1933, Hugo Boss, the founder of clothing company, designed black uniforms for Heinrich Himmler's SS, to replace the SA brown shirts. He also designed the Hitler Youth uniforms.^[3][4]"

smeagol the vile wrote:

allies might have had better weapons, and better scientists...

...I think you got the scientist thing wrong as well...other than the atomic bomb, the axis cleaned our plows: jet aircraft, rocket aircraft, V-1, V-2, Type XXI submarine, MP-44, etc..

Don't forget the wireless hammer.  But yeah.. I agree with ya! 

Not to me... The high collar on the jacket, the khaki shirt over blue trousers, white hat... Just not my style...

Agree... I much rather like the German style!!

They sure did, Hugo Boss made some of those uniforms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss

So all I have to do is to ask my mum if I can get some Hugo Boss clothes of my own choice?  

Sorry, fat guys in riding boots and pants don´t do nothing for me. I could tell you what my dress blues did for me but as this is a public forum I´ll refrain. I will agree that a grenadier in camo with a MG 42 standing in front of a Tiger  is an impressive sight though. But, after all, who gave us our name? Teufel Hund...

                                                     Mac

Huxy wrote:

Not to me... The high collar on the jacket, the khaki shirt over blue trousers, white hat... Just not my style... Agree... I much rather like the German style!!

You aint ever seen a real marine face to face Huxy, you better watch your mouth

Actually I have, Jagdpanther  

And my dad have met many of them...  Both as a re-enactor and a civilian.. And all times managed to get their mouth shut

But really, I'm not much into the MC.. by any means..  

German uniforms, including those of the SS, and the Waffen-SS, were the logical conclusion of the uniform development in the old Imperial army, through the Reichswehr to the Thirties.  Both the SS and original black Panzer uniforms, for example, owed much to the uniform of the old Leibgardehusaren regiments, who were also elite units in the Imperial army.  And the standard Waffenrock owe much to the "future peacetime uniform", developed in the Imperial army just before the outbreak of the First World War.  That design foresaw returning some traditional characteristics to the field gray uniform, such as adding collars and cuffs in traditional regimental/divisional/state colors to the field gray tunic, with patches carrying lace or traditional unit badges.

As to the Marines' dress uniform, their uniform is also the modern culmination of the evolution of uniforms from the end of the 18th century to the 1940's.

I think they're equally sharp.

well, now I know not to buy hugo boss stuff, eh'

and ultimatley, it doesnt matter what they had nuke trumps everything, especially when its the first time anyone gets one

Sorry guys, this Devil Dog has to stick to his blues.

as for the nuke thing.... yeah, we prety much win.

Semper-Fi!!

jadgpanther302 wrote:

Huxy wrote:   Not to me... The high collar on the jacket, the khaki shirt over blue trousers, white hat... Just not my style... Agree... I much rather like the German style!!       You aint ever seen a real marine face to face Huxy, you better watch your mouth

Best way to kill a Marine... Throw a sandbag off the roof and yell, "Hit the Beach!"...

Got a point there Hansi, We`d jump. But, some of us would live... SIR! Discipline is! Instant, Willing, Obidience to all orders SIR! There is one Doggy uniform item I envy though, The Air Cav Stetson. `Course mine would have to be grey.

                                                         Mac

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Disclaimer:The following in no way condones or supports Nazis, Neo-Nazis, or anything related to the politics and ideologies of Adolf Hitler, his cronies, the Nazi Party, or any other organization that even remotely resembles such... I gotta admit, the Nazis knew how to dress... The parade dress and walking-out dress uniforms are just too damn sharp.. To quote Trevor Howard in The Great Escape.. "Slap your gloves on your thigh, padre, strut a bit more... Style! That's what the bloody Boche have, Padre, Style!"

I don't think anyone can argue, they were snappy dressers! Just plain sharp.

The entire country of Germany was a bit nuts for uniforms back then. They had uniforms for everybody including civilians.

Hans von Hammer wrote:

Disclaimer:The following in no way condones or supports Nazis, Neo-Nazis, or anything related to the politics and ideologies of Adolf Hitler, his cronies, the Nazi Party, or any other organization that even remotely resembles such... I gotta admit, the Nazis knew how to dress... The parade dress and walking-out dress uniforms are just too damn sharp.. To quote Trevor Howard in The Great Escape.. "Slap your gloves on your thigh, padre, strut a bit more... Style! That's what the bloody Boche have, Padre, Style!"  Gotta call 'ya on that one Hans.  The movie you are thinking of is Vons Ryans Express, with cranky Franky.  I still laugh when the two Taifuns strafe the train- werent they unarmed ?

AHhhh, crap... You're right... Dunno where I got "The Great Escape" from... Major Brain-cramp... Hell, I even have the book... (Ryan lives in the book ya know...)