As far I can tell, the German uniforms were historically accurate. I think they were able to get away with it because the Nazis were universally portrayed as buffoons.
The rank insignia was often incorrect, either for rank, branch of service. And Hochstetter was ostensibly a Gestapo, but always* wore the uniform of an SS major (more or less) instead of the usual civilian trench coat like Toht in Raiders.
One thing you’d think the movie studios should have done was in 1945-46 buy up a metric shitload of German uniforms, weapons and vehicles. They could still be using them!
*In the actor’s first appearance, he was in the trench coat, but was a different character, Colonel Feldkamp.
The issue is that he left there for nearly 15 years, only recently having it covered up. The Deathshead isn’t an obscure or rare Nazi symbol, and any member of the Army and Marines would know what it is.
If he didn’t have it covered up till later on account of something like financial troubles or lack of access to a proper tattoo artist, it could be more excusable. But the fact he waited till it became a public issue during a senate run makes it far too suspicious to dismiss as a bad drunken choice.
Agreed. Whether or not I recognize it as a Nazi symbol, he certainly did, and bragged about it.
And all the actors who portrayed Nazis were Jewish.
I mean, why not have historically accurate uniforms? Serious WWII movies have them, both before and after Hogan’s Heroes. If you’re going to be offended by a comedy set in a German POW camp, editing out the swastikas and totenkopfs isn’t going to help.
When I was in college, Robert Clary (LeBeau) came to talk. The campus Marxists lost their shit for the show making light of the Nazis. Yeah, I think I’ll give more credence to the guy who survived Buchenwald (and lost his entire family) over a bunch of pampered rich kids from the North Shore.
Y’know, if the people prompting that AI did not recognize that it had used the faces of real people, that media team is ripping him off.
Really?
I’m not up on current laws, but that feels like a rich invitation to a lawsuit.
I’ll note that Idris Elba, Javier Bardem, and Sean Astin were not in that video. There were AI people who vaguely, maybe kinda-sorta looked like them if you squinted enough, but the resemblance was extremely remote. I wouldn’t have even thought of those actors on first viewing that video, because they really do not look like them much at all.
That’s the problem with AI video - it’s built on plagiarizing copyrighted material, so even if they didn’t include “looks like Idris Elba” in the prompt, it wound up using his likeness.
I didn’t have to squint that hard, and at first glance they looked deliberately like the people they were supposed to look like.
I was navy and I recognize it when I see it, so, really.
Maybe he kind of looks like Idris Elba with a different nose.
This guy is Sean Astin?
And Javier Bardem?
Those seem like a major stretch.
The third one is obviously Jeffery Dean Morgan.
I see that, yeah, a lot closer.
Nearly every member of the US Military has some form of instruction on the history of the military. While I can’t speak super confidently on the enlisted experience, all officers are required to take at least one class in Military History. I doubt enlisted men have a ton of instruction on it, but should have enough knowledge of WWII to recognize the more prominent Nazi symbols.
I was in the U.S.A F. from 1976-1980 and got no training of that sort.
Disease monger Rob Schneider drops another stupid lie from the stupid lie machine inside his evil soul:
" “FYI… There were NO Children’s Hospitals when I was a kid. Because kids weren’t sick.”
The bastard was born in 1963, at which point children’s hospitals had existed for more than a century. I’m a year younger than him, and can assure him that children were sick back then
Another (apparently) public figure of whom I know nothing. Yay me.
He was on Saturday Night Live, and a few terribly unfunny “comedy” movies.