| ▲ | Retric 5 days ago |
| Thus the joke… It’s a play on words, and the involuntary nature of service in the German military at the time. |
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| ▲ | 1-more 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| German Army had 1.3 million conscripts and 2.4 million volunteers in the period 1935-1939 so odds are he signed up to be there. |
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| ▲ | Retric 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Those numbers aren’t independent of each other. People about to be drafted will often volunteer to be in a military as a volunteer rather than a draftee, to get the waiting over with, etc. |
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| ▲ | hermitcrab 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| For some value of 'joke'. |
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| ▲ | Retric 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Fair, but it’s a meme thread. My initial thought was. Pioneer: O panzer of the lake, why are our uniforms white?
Panther: They must be easy to spot. But, I tried to reach past the pun and failed. |
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