Colorized photo from 1910 of the Imperial German Hussars
by hoosier_catholic
Colorized photo from 1910 of the Imperial German Hussars
by hoosier_catholic
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*A song starts playing*
When I was a young boy
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said, “Son, when you grow up
Would you be the savior of the broken
The beaten and the damned?”
He said, “Will you defeat them?
Your demons, and all the non-believers
The plans that they have made?”
“Because one day, I’ll leave you a phantom
To lead you in the summer
To join the black parade”
I didn’t realize the kaiser also used the totenkopf
But why a skull? Are we the baddies?
Monty Python vibes. Like, I expect them to suddenly animate and turn into a Rockettes-style kick line.
3rd guy from the left bears a slight resemblance to someone……
Hans, I’ve just noticed something.
Have you looked at our caps recently?
Do one with the Polish dudes who smacked the Turks at Vienna.
I’m a Hussar, I’m a Hun, I’m a wretched Englishmen
Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo,
I’m a Dragoon on a dun, I’m a Cossack on the run
I’m a horse soldier, timeless, through and through
Chilean Hussars of Death were using similar uniform including skulls between 1812 and 1818
https://preview.redd.it/4qbwk615kryg1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5548185f1665d763ff775ac89b39e0893741db67
Warhammer coded
In 4 short years that uniform would be obsolete.
Willkommen zur Schwarzen Parade
My first thought when I saw their flags was ‘are we the baddies?’
They’d look very different 5 years from then.
Standing meters from industrialized warfare.
Looks like a Platner campaign rally
Fearsome and dandy.
They may be the baddies but they are fabulous baddies
They only had to color the grass, sky and faces.
Fake colors are awful.
Current cap badge of the Royal Lancers, an armoured regiment of the British Army.
https://preview.redd.it/4y8qr8nkyryg1.jpeg?width=314&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddddafe1c269714dc82303d8b23ec0417deafdbe
Me and the boys about to charge into French machine guns and never have our remains positively identified.
me and who?
Before camouflage
No these are *Hoorahs!* – with the exclamation mark. Common mistake.