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Prussian General Field Marshall Von Mackensen
« on: March 02, 2015, 02:15:08 pm »
Ran across this pic and just felt like sharing it.  Check out the symbol on his hat.


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Re: Prussian General Field Marshall Von Mackensen
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2015, 09:27:34 am »
Epic. A friend sent these to me yesterday. Kind of in the same vein.
http://imgscenter.com/album/3
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Re: Prussian General Field Marshall Von Mackensen
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2015, 03:06:04 pm »
That looks awfully close to the same skull later used by the SS.
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Re: Prussian General Field Marshall Von Mackensen
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2015, 08:26:29 pm »
Epic. A friend sent these to me yesterday. Kind of in the same vein.
http://imgscenter.com/album/3

Hahaha, those are hilarious. The Rock's looks a little off, though. The body they put his head on is too skinny!

That looks awfully close to the same skull later used by the SS.

Definitely. The Nazis were notorious for employing evocative Germanic imagery for propaganda purposes, so I guess we shouldn't be too surprised.