Dec 13, 2014 · The deaths head (Totenkopf) is a symbol that had been in use by many German and Prussian military units in history, going back hundreds of years. It was mainly to signify their high levels of badassery. The SS picked up on this and used it themselves to co-opt that history to mold themselves as an elite force.

Jul 15, 2019 · Here is an interesting undergraduate thesis that compares the different ways the eagle was appropriated as a national symbol in US and German contexts. In both cases, the author traces this symbol to Roman times (the aquila). Regarding the specific way the Nazi Party (NSDAP) used the eagle (the Parteiadler):

Aug 16, 2012 · I'm currently running my Minecraft Server with CentOS and ever since 1.3.1 a lot of plugins are using § symbol for color codes which sucks cause CentOS isn't able to read it for some reason, it changes it to & id there any way to allow CentOS to read this symbol, as the plugins do not support the standard Minecraft Color Code Symbol. Thanks

Dec 1, 2022 · You will find lots of "stamped" notes from German occupied Poland and Polish ZŁOTY banknotes over-stamped by various units of the AK (or Home Army) operating in Warsaw. German party "ss" organizations used to stamp official orders, cancel stamps, indicate a document was received and/or processed by an official and for other miscellaneous ...

Apr 13, 2019 · There's a typographical distinction between an actual f and the ſ you're referring to in the text. See for instance the difference between 'magiſtrats' and 'behalf' in the second paragraph.

Jul 19, 2023 · Oak leaf and oak leaf cluster ribbon devices are used as decorations or as decoration "add-ons" in several cases, e.g. as the symbol for "mentioned in despatches" and for the King's Commendation for Valuable service in the UK, to indicate multiple awards of a medal in the US, and to distinguish the Bundeswehr Cross of Honour for Valour from the ...

May 25, 2017 · I frequently come across pictures and videos where Nazi functionaries (such as SS and SA men) give the infamous Hitler salute (a.k.a the Fascist salute) with their right hand. Now this is hardly surprising since military styled salutes tend to be 'right-handed'. But suppose an SS officer were to lose his (entire) right arm in battle.

Note the symbol displayed on the ring is not strictly a Nazi symbol, but the Iron Cross or perhaps a Cross Pattee, which predate the Nazi regime. An article discussing the Iron Cross's association with biker culture can be read here. Below you can compare to …

So the original Nazi salute may have resembled the Roman salute more closely, but that the SS modified it with "a soldierly style", a crisp yet tiring gesture to hold. Most Germans only had to do the salute once - to Hitler, but Hitler would be obliged to return the salute to everyone greeting him, so it's reasonable to assume that he adopted a ...

Jul 10, 2019 · Because the 9th Army of SS General Felix Steiner existed, but only on paper. At full strength, this army could plausibly have taken on the First Byelorussian Front. But General Steiner balked because he was outnumbered 10 to 1 by this Russian unit (rather than say, 2 to 1, as might have been the case earlier in the war).