Ah yes. The snappy uniforms and arian beauty of the Third Reich.
Also, the strict and masterful disciplinarian attitude.
And the riding crops! Let us not forget the riding crops!!
Ever does it make our colars hot and our crotches tingly.
Although, looking at your list . . .
Von Leeb looks like the inspiration for the Red Skull; possibly a Cenobite, cause I’m not sure that’s his own skin he’s wearing there.
Von Bock looks like a gelfling.
Kesselring actually looks like an all-American dad from 1950s television, except for the uniform.
Frankly, my dear, if this is your pick of “super hotties”, I think your temperature gage must be on the fritz.
tually looks like an all-American dad from 1950s television, except for the uniform.
Frankly, my dear, if this is your pick of “super hotties”, I think your temperature gage must be on the fritz.
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Well, I only have 26 Field Marshals to pick from. One of them was 84 years old and another was Goering, so that reduces the pool by 7.69% right off the bat. Georing is kind of like Elvis in reverse - no one remembers thin Hermann, they only want to remember fat Hermann.
Oh don’t talk to me about THAT guy! Field Marshal for a day and he surrenders his army. He’s all like, I made it to the top, it’s not like I even need to try any more. What a noob!
That’s a substantially better-looking photo of Manstein than I recall seeing before; it might be pre-war. By 1941 he looked like this (he’s in the center of this shot wearing the Iron Cross); sort of a Nazi Mr. Magoo. Don’t let the look fool you; Manstein was perhaps the best operational-level general the Germans had.
At least according to Manstein anyway. I’ve often wondered what his reputation would be if he hadn’t lived to write a post-war book about himself. In it, he “explained” that all the mistakes that had been made during the war were Hitler’s ideas and all the stuff that worked had been his ideas.
I’ll allow that opinions are subjective, and while my opinion might concur on the uniforms and tanks, such unanimity comes to a screeching halt at the fighter planes.
Form trumped function with these three beauties - Spitfire, Corsair (Not her best side), Mustang
post script - Ninja’d! But I’ll admit to a baseless aversion to radial and jet engined craft…
Heh. I seriously considered adding the Corsair. Love the inverted gull wings, long nose and the engine cowling. But the funny tail gave me pause – the vertical stabilizer being forward of the horizontal looks weird to me.
IIRC, the stab got moved forward for functional reasons. Form does not always follow function attractively. Generally, I’d ignore the Corsair in these discussions, anyway.
The Mustang and Spitfire are both “pretty.” I’ll go with the Lightning for “wicked,” Bob.
The FW190 was more “cute as a button” until they put in an inline engine and made it “ugly as shit.” But that’s a different thread.
::muttering:: I don’t know WHAT to make of this thread. It’s about Nazis, which is bad. It’s about hotness, which is good. It’s about powerful male Nazi hotness, which I have never, ever before considered and probably could have happily gone the rest of my lifetime without considering. I don’t know WHAT to make of this thread.::muttering::