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Reminds me of Top Secret...

posted 16 years ago by jaimehk
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... in that incoherent mixture of styles and fashions: 1960's haircuts, civilian clothes and Mercedes Benz, buildings from somewhere between the 50's and 70's, and, believe it or not, the old 1930's uniforms still in place. Is it reasonably believable that the thriumphant reich would have taken some time to update his style.

Somebody may answer about the hardships of predicting such a thing, but actual history gives us a strong hint: DDR military uniforms were actually taken for designs made for the Wehrmacht but never produced before war's end. So soldiers of an 1960's German Reich would have looked a lot like East German Soldiers of the same era. Why didn't anyone involved in the movie make such an obvious research?

[–] Locomotiva1 15 years ago

lack of money?
And, you may add, a bit of hollywood: this is s story about wacky nazi in the 60s.

So 60s aircuts, dictatorship ugly buildings (soviet ones, but dictatorship styles were similar), but the nazi need to look nazi, not east germans.
A post war nazi empire will look something like DDR, probably.
MAybe not with the VOPO helmet, as Hitler himself stopped any research on the new helmet in 1945 because the expensive M1935 was part of the myth of the winning Wehrmacht.

Using DDR-like uniforms in this movie would draw comments: they had no money and they used the wrong uniforms - that cheap Ossie thing you would buy for few bucks in 1994.

So, it's a bit odd they still had the same 30s uniforms in the 60s - but it's a better choice than a "fantasy" new one.