I somehow stumbled onto that video a couple days ago and watched it in amazement.
Oh. Oh no. Not again.
/s
This looks like it was filmed in the 40’s and only colorized in 2024.
That’s just what Germany looks like, same as everything being sepia in Mexico
Man, there’s something about the color balance and lighting that just screams Monty Python sketch to me.
Tactical background
It looks like a colorized classic sitcom.
I though it was a C&C red alert screenshot.
God damn it some necromancer needs to resurrect Westwood from death to get off their asses and make a new Tiberium Sun, Red Alert, and most importantly a new C&C Generals.
You actually cannot purchase C&C Generals, even if you wanted to. And no way to play multiplayer either if you pirated it.
You can get all the classic C&Cs on Steam and you can play a good chunk of them online using CNC online. I agree though, we need a new C&C Generals.
Downfall (2024)
That screen shot though. It took me a second to realize this wasn’t a Monty Python skit.
let me try this with a different faction. /S just in case…Kraus stumbled out of the wreckage of die Zeitmachine, disoriented and alone.
The bunker was long gone, replaced by a gleaming modern city that bore little resemblance to the remains of the Berlin he knew. The streets were clean, the buildings were standing tall, and strange vehicles zipped by silently.
His heart raced as he wandered through the city, trying to make sense of what had happened. He found himself drawn to a large department store with rows of televisions in the window. On every screen, a news broadcast played, showing an attack against Kursk in Russia. The familiar German black cross was still emblazoned on tanks, but the uniforms were different—sleek, modern. And soldiers spoke a language that he didn’t understand. Aren’t they German? He was confused.
And then he saw him: Panzergeneral Freuding, analyzing the battle with calm authority. His sharply ironed grey uniform offering a familiar sight. Kraus’s heart leaped. The Reich was still fighting. The war was still on. But… how?
He stepped closer to the screens, trying to understand the reports. The news anchor spoke of a war that had begun in 2022, of a Russian invasion repelled, a brave Ukraine pushing the enemy back into their territory. Kraus’s mind reeled. This wasn’t the war he remembered. This wasn’t 1945.
But perhaps… perhaps they had succeeded. Look at this city, more modern and beautiful than he ever remembered. And the German tanks rolling over the steppe, filling him with pride. Perhaps they had somehow altered history with the time machine, and shifted the future in their favor?
Kraus straightened, a grim smile spreading across his face. He was the only one left, the last survivor of the old war, but it didn’t matter. His sacrifice had not been in vain. The Reich could be victorious after all. As he stood there, watching the tanks on the screen, he felt a new sense of purpose washing over him. “Für das Vaterland,” he whispered to himself, and walked over to the train station to find the first wagon going to the Eastern front.
And this time, he was here to make sure they win.
Berlin clean and beautiful? This must be some alternate history.
Beautiful
This is why Hexbear calls y’all Nazis, you realize.
Well, that and the paychecks from the Kremlin.
isn’t it making fun of Nazis?
It’s a short story about a Nazi soldier with a time machine stumbling on the Ukrainian advance and thinking, great, he finally gets to kill some more Slavs and win this time.
It’s just not a good look, and there wasn’t a hint of mockery unless you go five tiers deep in community meta irony poisoning that still just leaves you with a comment favorably comparing Ukrainians to Nazis.
oh, I read it as the stupid nazi being stupid and thinking Germany won. the punchline being that as soon as he goes into the train he’ll realize how wrong he is and have a breakdown.
You read it correctly but I’m hoping he rides the train with his newfound comrades. He doesn’t understand the language but he knows who they are fighting. He marvels at screens and drones as he makes it to the front line. Then dies valiantly fighting fascism.
Yes, that was around my intention. The whole picture/video looks like a comedy sketch, it just inspired me to make up some shit about what a nazi soldier would think looking at it. But as one my my fav teachers taught me, humor is indeed subjective, so I probably should have made the joke clearer at the end (e.g. the nazi soldier getting hit my a car, or arrested by the police for his uniform)
To be fair now I see how it can be (mis)understood that way, especially if e.g. a tankie is looking for a chance to call us nazis. Though I have a feeling that they would call us that regardless. Also posted my “official” explanation, as requested by a mod: https://lemmy.world/comment/11839482
I understand what you’re saying. Let’s give him/her until tonight to respond.
Not doing the Nazi allegations any favors…
im pretty sure hexbear calls us nazis because they’re the nazis, but i’m banned from the only interesting sub on that instance so what do i know lmao.
u/slaacaa, I don’t know what your intention is in posting this…creative writing… exercise, but this isn’t a community for posting fanfiction or historical fiction. You seem new to commenting at NCD, so I’d like to give you, @slaacaa@lemmy.world a moment to explain your point of view before taking any action as a mod. Could you add some context, is your post/story intended to be irony? Please respond publicly in this thread by tonight, that is 8-17. Thank you.
Hi, yes, it is very definitely intended as ironic, shredding light on the - in my view absurdly - repetitive patterns in history. Based the comments and the upvotes this humor hopefully came through for most readers, but I understand nuance is not always obvious in written text.
I hope ironic comments like these are not against the rules, but happy to adjust my style/content, if needed. I am a long-time lurker and occasional NCD commenter from the reddit, so I was thinking I have a good grasp on the sub - please let me know if not.
I also want to clarify that I spent around 5 minutes on the “story” above, by giving ChatGPT some prompts and editing the output to fit what I was trying to achieve with a comment. I am luckily not some basement dwelling teen writing WW2 fanfic for hours every day.
Thanks for reaching out as a mod, instead of just purging/banning, I appreciate that. Maybe I should have replied to the comment accusing me, but I thought the irony was obvioud and absurd, but maybe not.
To make it even more clear, in case anybody was doubting: fuck nazis.
Ok, that’s what I was hoping to hear from you. Post stays, we good. Basement dwellers and WWII obsessors are always welcome here, but fuck time traveling Nazis. “Iron Sky” was fun, but before reading the context you provided, your post gave me da hibbity jibbities. Thank you to all the morons and moronettes who expressed their concerns. Let’s always have a dialogue, not a monologue, this isn’t hexbear, lemmy.ml or lemmygrad. THIS IS NCD. OUT.
Link to the video from the Reddit comments:
Idk, that seems a bit too credible for me…
He said the F-16 isn’t a game changer, instantly non-credible. If you put a dying flower next to an F-16, it will bloom.
I thought this was a comedy sketch, then I see it’s the official Bundeswehr channel. What is is this timeline?
This looks like something out of Dr Strangelove or an early Bond film. If it weren’t for the modern bezel around the screen, I would not be able to tell the difference.
I misread bezel as Brezel, and couldn’t tell if you were making a German joke or if there was a hidden pretzel somewhere on the border
Comparing the art direction of a Bond film to Dr Strangelove, to the point you can’t tell the difference, is something I have never seen before.
This image is giving me some real Command and Conquer vibes
Just waiting for Tanya to walk in from slightly off screen, reference 99 red balloons as she explains a new kind of attack drone swarm, and then tell us she’ll be in position, and she’s counting on us.
The camo background and index card are probably really helpful in the modern office combat environment.
This is General major Feuding in the official Bundeswehr channel. This guy is a machine, it’s really interesting listening to his analyses. One of the top comments says something like “Kremlin is watching this rn to understand what the fuck is going on in Kursk”
I would be 0% surprised if someone there copies Germans off of YouTube for their official reports. More time to get hammered, am I right?
it’s not like they learned how to write reports; russian education has been shit for a few years now, hasn’t it?
Feuding is a great name for a general
His analysis is looking spot on.
Is this Nazi shit? I wanted to watch but it’s taken down. But it really has the vibe in the preview screenshot.
It’s literally the video from the screenshot
Nah, it’s the official Bundeswehr channel, like OP said. It’s the replacement Germans that are very sorry about that whole thing. Or at least very much supposed to be.
This wasn’t a bait-and-switch joke, haha, I just thought I should link the video we’re all talking about. TBH it won’t play for me, though.
It’s the replacement Germans that are very sorry about that whole thing. Or at least very much supposed to be.
I don’t think, I understand your comment. Is it calling out xenophobia? Is it itself a little xenophobic?
Help me out, pls
The Bundeswehr is the modern German army, and is not supposed to have Nazis in it. Unfortunately it does sometimes, and that’s caused some scandals when it has been revealed. On the whole modern Germans are (rightfully) sorry about the whole Nazi period.
