Uncategorised Trying too hard

[Dave Danner]

Do you think this guy was maybe trying a little too hard to show how dedicated a Nazi he was? Or maybe trying to win a prize in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest?

[Paul R]

Charlie Chaplan came to mine for me. Great photo!

[Odulf]

Perhaps we are inclined to think that this funny moustache was invented by Hitler, but to my experience it is more likely that Hitler was a folower of fashion.

There are many portraits of men wearing this tooth brush moustache, not in the least the American actors Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy.

[Dave Danner]

For what it's worth, the guy in my photo paid a heavy price for his devotion to the cause. As commander of the Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment of the Panzer Lehr Division, he was wounded and captured by Canadian troops on 8 June 1944, and according to various reports mistreated by the Canadians, and finally died on 18 June.

Edited May 14, 2013 by Dave Danner

[Ulsterman]

The mustache although Chaplin like, was actually, in Germany, the mark of a front line soldier. It was the proscribed facial hair by regulation for the early gas masks. I have a bunch of Stahlhelm soldiers wearing this, but not younger men or Spd/KPD supporters, nor Adel chappies.