Movies and Films
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Re: Watch the movie "Das Boot"and listen
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Dietzsch
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Date: June 24, 2003 08:36AM
<HTML>Been visiting a bit less here, true. I lurk far more than I write. My knowledge on U-Boote is laughable compared to the real regulars and experts here, so usually I just read and enjoy.
Pedantic? Heh, you're oh so right however, I just didn't think before throwing those terms around.
It gets confusing, those ranks and their translations.
I, for example, was a corporal with liaisons in the Dutch Royal Army.
Korporaal, in Dutch. Gefreiter, in German, one would say. Not quite. Because if one looks at what the role of a Gefreiter is, I was more a Obergefreiter, who in Dutch terms would be a Korporaal 1. Corporal first class in English? Too bad that THAT rank doesn't exist in English. Confusing, I tells ya!!
The confusion did cause one funny thing, however: whenever we were exercising in Germany (we Dutch actually were the ones who protected Germany from the Evil Red Danger, as everybody knows
), we met a lot of American GIs, who had no idea what this big yellow stripe on my shoulder meant. So they usually saluted me, a mere grunt with one stripe Cue the amazement when I took off my helmet, revealing my long hair (long live the liberal Dutch army and their 70ies-invoked liberties!).</HTML>
Pedantic? Heh, you're oh so right however, I just didn't think before throwing those terms around.
It gets confusing, those ranks and their translations.
I, for example, was a corporal with liaisons in the Dutch Royal Army.
Korporaal, in Dutch. Gefreiter, in German, one would say. Not quite. Because if one looks at what the role of a Gefreiter is, I was more a Obergefreiter, who in Dutch terms would be a Korporaal 1. Corporal first class in English? Too bad that THAT rank doesn't exist in English. Confusing, I tells ya!!
The confusion did cause one funny thing, however: whenever we were exercising in Germany (we Dutch actually were the ones who protected Germany from the Evil Red Danger, as everybody knows
), we met a lot of American GIs, who had no idea what this big yellow stripe on my shoulder meant. So they usually saluted me, a mere grunt with one stripe Cue the amazement when I took off my helmet, revealing my long hair (long live the liberal Dutch army and their 70ies-invoked liberties!).</HTML>