One thing Aldo Raine (Pitt’s character) says is “I’m gonna give you something you can’t take off”, implying he doesn’t want Landa to just fade into the woodwork and have his crimes forgotten.
How realistic is this? With 1940s standards of plastic surgery, could the wound be fixed in 6 months?
Assuming it can’t, how hard would it be to hide? Wearing a beanie all the time might be odd, but I imagine Landa could do it. If it wanted to be really serious, adding some extra scars to mask the image is doable. Or, the thing that occurred to me most, is that Landa is a charismatic mofo, and he could probably convince someone that he got it from an enemy while fleeing the Nazi regime. The best part, it’s technically true.
Would being identified as a Nazi in the Inglorious Basterds universe be as bad as in ours? In the film the entire Nazi leadership gets exterminated before D-day. Maybe the remnants of the German government would be able to conditionally surrender to the Allies and gain enough time to hide the evidence of the final solution that was well underway at that point.
Personally, I was thinking that the hefty amount of cash Landa is getting for his agreement with the allies probably has enough for him to bribe a plastic surgeon into doing the surgery, with the patient name as “John Doe”
He made a deal with the U.S. Government that included a nice retirement package in America, a statement that he had been a U.S. Agent throughout the entire war and I think we worked in a Medal of Honor as well. I don’t think Hans is going to have a hard time getting an Allied doctor to fix his wound.
Post WW2? Relatively simple - go to a surgeon, get tranked out, have him slice off the affected area, do a skin graft taken from somewhere else on the body and claim war wound. You know how man disfiguring injuries there were from the war ranging from simple cuts all the way up to horrible burns and missing limbs. A simple ‘repair patch’ on the forehead would be nothing - he could claim that he got hit with a spot of white phosphorus that burned the area.
Not before D-Day. There were definitely American lines Raine was driving Landa out to. [edit]Also, isn’t “Nation’s Pride” set in the aftermath of the Allied invasion?[/edit]
FWIW such a cut, as opposed to a tattoo, would obviously have been inflicted against the subject’s will, e.g. if I saw someone with a swastika cut into his skin I’d think ‘a Nazi must have done that to him’ rather than ‘he must have been a Nazi’.
