Aesthetics of Evil - The Fascist uniform.

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Sources, and yes, I prefer them to be easy to understand instead of using academic formats - not everyone here had the privilege of getting a college degree:
Framework and broader idea come from reading "Dressing the Reich: The Fear and Elegance in Nazi Uniforms"
Defeated Nazi General quote - The Things Our Fathers Saw: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation
The US vs Nazi uniform quote - Klemperer, Victor. I Will Bear Witness
Himmler talking about the SS uniform- military.wikia...
original source checked and confirmed in The Third Reich: A New History". 2001. p. 192
Sketches of uniforms from the Organisationsbuch der NSDAP - hard to find on "legit" websites.
Goebbels quote on uniformity: One of the Reich Chamber of Culture's slogans
Umberto Eco - Ur-Fascism (READ THIS PLEASE)
Rommel and Fortune photo - after the fall of the 51st Division to the Nazis 12 June 1940
The fictional video used is of John in "Man in the High Castle".
The ending shot is from the movie "Come and See".
I do not own any of these materials in any shape or form.

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[@barakmoss1691]

Great video I loved it. I loved it so much I stopped working lol

[@DavidRichardson153]

I have to admit something personal: The fact that you sound like my mother's more distant relatives does make me feel comfortable. Her family is from Yugoslavia, and they had a minor history with Nazis. They fled religious persecution (they were Christians, not Jews) and were saved by a Nazi military convoy. All four of my great-grandparents would attain German citizenship and live a decent life, but after Czechoslovakia, they saw the writing on the wall and packed up the family (mainly my grandparents - who were still kids then - their siblings, and some extended relatives) and left. They were unable to get into the US then, so they went to Chile, where my mother would be born about 20 years later and then they finally entered the US. When they were fleeing persecution, my maternal grandmother was almost tasked with killing her older sister, who was already sick when they fled, because they were afraid that "she was slowing them down." That was when they stumbled across the military convoy. Her father spoke just enough German to request asylum through them, and they granted it, thus sparing my grandmother's sister (who also received medicine from them). Until she passed away a couple of years ago, my grandmother would always acknowledge how the Nazis saved her family, but she refused to embrace Nazism after they left Germany, so while she was never particularly vocal, she disliked how American politicians - but especially the Republican party - embrace Nazism. Before she suffered the debilitating stroke that would leave her helpless, when she saw the 2016 election results, she simply said, "Well, America has fallen to the Nazis."

[@Jcewazhere]

Exercising is capitalist. We eat so much that we have to burn extra calories to not be fat. Of course working out is more efficient if you have fancy tools to work out with, and it just so happens there's a sale on those today. Then since you exercised you can justify getting another tasty burger you saw on that commercial. Then you feel guilty so you have to exercise again...

[@dethkon]

@@Jcewazhere My family is working class. My uncle used to say that the harsh construction sites he worked on were simply “getting paid to work out.” That’s the ideology he used to get by as a manual laborer for all of his life.

[@Jcewazhere]

@@dethkon I was mostly making a point about the rich or middle class eating too much then having to burn off those extra calories or be fine with being fat. It's like those rulers in the past that would eat tons, then vomit it up so they could eat more. It's waste for the sake of pleasure. I've done some construction work, though never full time. My gramps is a general contractor and I helped him out most summers growing up.

[@USAImperator]

Nazis at the end of ww2: lay me down in my gucci suit. No need to cremate me im already draped in this fire.

[@jamesh6024]

Gucci? I thought it was Hugo Boss who produced the Nazi uniforms

[@BTClips522]

@@jamesh6024 Gucci is also a word used for calling attire good looking

[@ANYA.RIZALI]

meow meow

[@USAImperator]

@@BTClips522 this man gets it

[@jamesh6024]

@@BTClips522 Ah

[@TheWanderer_1]

"A man dies when he's forgotten, and son; my drip is legendary."

[@sadnut9513]

*b r u h* 🤣🤣

[@Johny2by30]

That semicolon....

[@feliderf94]

Ayyyyyeee doeeeee 😎🥵

[@angelusvastator1297]

Dripler. Drip Hirohito. Drip Mussolini.

[@localredbird621]

​@@angelusvastator1297 the holy trinity. Adolf Dripler Joseph Stuntin and Benito Swagolini

[@choyidude601]

as graphic designer i can atleast say they nailed the color psychology and shape language, many premium brands use the same kind of graphic assets to convey respect and such

[@yamatokurusaki5790]

Yea they selling us some over priced shirts But what we really wants is this (Meme , sorry for my bad English)

[@yamatokurusaki5790]

@@thotslayer9914 nope European

[@RegionalRadioShackManager]

You don’t need to be a graphic designer to know that. Read the entire comment section

[@Mo9kh]

@@thotslayer9914 well, he doesn't wanna say. Bruh

[@verapaulo5698]

Can you please elaborate on that?

[@thegethconsensus393]

I remember back when I was in JROTC in high school. We wore US army dress uniforms on Wednesdays and I felt awesome in that uniform. I found myself walking with more confidence. It’s remarkable what effect a snazzy uniform can have on the wearers psychology.

[@TheVril]

Now, imagine the effect purposefully dressing anesthetically has.

[@CollaborativeDataAccounts]

LOL JROTC, like out of Animal House?

[@robertcuminale1212]

I felt the same when I wore my dress blues when I was in the Navy. Whites also made me feel like a baker. Plus they didn't stay clean or unwrinkled. Dress blues always made an impression on folks who saw you. You looked best if you were thin which I was at the time and if you'd had them tailored. The "undress" jumper/blouse didn't look as sharp because it didn't have the white piping and you didn't wear the neckerchief. Blues were easiest to wear because they were made from Melton wool which was soft and unstarched. Whites were heavily starched and the creases started to disappear after you'd worn them for a few hours. I like the look of the new dress whites because they've added blue piping.

[@leoxholic3323]

I'm always scared of commenting on how good their aesthetic was uniform wise

[@anorexicwater4663]

Same i feel like someone will reply to me and call me a horrible person just because i like nazi uniforms

[@Pryad881]

Just say that German uniforms always look good, even in ww1, they looked great

[@ZeppelinAdventures25]

@@Pryad881 even the Teutonic Knights were the coolest looking order. Germans have a penchant on making cool military outfits.

[@leoxholic3323]

@@Pryad881 I said that the uniforms were real eye-catchers and "respectable if isolated" (aka, if they weren't being worn by murderers) and my history teacher nearly threw sh*t YELLING that I shouldn't say anything good about them. Then two classes later she was talking about how despite all the misery they actually did good stuff like creating highways and taking cars to the people and unifying the country. 🙄

[@maxthibodeau3627]

don't be, be free to express your view.

[@user-up1op3kz9q]

“What kid doesn’t like weird symbols eh?” Laughs in “weird S thing everyone used to draw in their notebooks back in elementary school”

[@demon_xd_]

“Damn germans with their Ss” -someone on the internet, 2020/2021

[@peloentupantalla7768]

What does that S even mean lmao

[@troncat.t]

@@peloentupantalla7768 i dont think it meant anything it was just kinda fun to draw when your teacher is boring

[@freshpeaches6886]

Ppl drawing the weird S symbol not knowing it stood for gang affiliation. LMFAO S=Southside

[@peloentupantalla7768]

@@freshpeaches6886 BRUH

[@kazumasjourneyofsong511]

"what kid doesnt like weird symbol eh?" he's... got a point

[@ThePhantomSafetyPin]

It reminded me of this time some kid in elementary school, who liked to learn about history, decided to draw a swastika. He had no clue what it meant so the teachers educated him otherwise, dunno what happened to that kid.

[@aichujohnson8444]

In Japan and in East Asia, you will find this symbol everywhere. Even the the word Swastika is of a Sanskrit origin. Swasti = "well-being" Swastika = "a thing of well-being" It is used in Jain and Buddhist religions. Hence, I find the banning of the symbol offensive. Just say that you are a Buddhist and that it is your right to draw the symbol. Ironically, this makes Germany and the rest if the West culturally ignorant and intolerant. The best way to erase something is to give it a new identity. Prohibiting it will not be effective. I used to draw green swastikas when I was young. I thought that a different color should negate its bad reputation. 😁

[@bxy3900]

@@aichujohnson8444 But the religious symbol swastika is left turned and the angled cross of the nazis is right turned. English speakers only have one word for both so it's obviously confusing but they're not the same. But in return in many asian countries the Rising Sun Flag of japan is seen as a symbol of aggression and the horrors of the past while it isn't a big or even well known thing in most western countries. So I wouldn't blame them even if they would accidently use the right turned symbol just because everyone focusses more on the history of the area you come from.

[@SeekJesusFindLife]

@Carl Panzram None of my teachers gave a shit except this french teacher I had who gasped when she saw it.

[@fridaynuggies4191]

@@bxy3900 "many asian countries..." You mean Cockrea, and CCP?

[@kamerafreak3492]

That Uniform gives "death by glamor" a whole new meaning

[@viaxxl]

Perfect description

[@B.K.E.N-EX]

BY USA

[@c-c-combobreak]

@@B.K.E.N-EX, no, by nazis. That's the point of the video

[@waldothewalrus294]

As in the Undertale song?

[@STOPSYPHER]

@@B.K.E.N-EX what are you babbling about

[@jonahc2807]

The drip was too powerful. *It had to be destroyed*

[@wilhelmvonberghoff175]

Exactly dude. That’s why Germany’s military sadly doesn’t use any of their traditional uniforms anymore. It’s because the allies don’t want Germany looking better than they do.

[@catholicracialist776]

Only men with 100% germanic D-N-A and germanic face structure were allowed to wear them

[@catholicracialist776]

@@wilhelmvonberghoff175 You're a troll

[@catholicracialist776]

@@wilhelmvonberghoff175 Go to a doctor

[@catholicracialist776]

@@wilhelmvonberghoff175 Modern Germans are full of admixtures (heavily mixed D-N-A) Get your facts straight

[@RedRosa]

My Grandma grew up outside of Metz France. As much as she hated the nazis (she has to work in an airplane parts factory), she always commented on the initial impression they made with their clean, pressed, and decorated uniforms and coordinated marching.

[@Wasserkaktus]

Imagine if Boss made uniforms for the Allies instead.

[@MrZauberelefant]

@@Wasserkaktus Imagine you paid attention in the video where he calls out the Hugo Boss myth. The allies' uniforms were designed for practicality.

[@Wasserkaktus]

@@MrZauberelefant I don't dispute the Allies' uniform designs and his good they were: Boss's uniforms were designed to look good, and its clear that worked very well.

[@MrZauberelefant]

@@Wasserkaktus they weren't designed by Boss, and they were meant to intimidate, strike a pose, look sharp, which is a bit more specific than "good". Check out US marine corps parade uniforms for comparison.

[@charlesmansonpart2498]

@@MrZauberelefant boss himself designed the initial Nazi uniforms before they gained power and then later produced them with his company but the later designs such as the ss and Wehrmacht uniforms weren’t made my boss but the early SA like uniforms were, so you’re both wrong

[@juanpablo-co6zw]

"You can't kill me those uniforms are Gucci" Shit be like this sometimes

[@Sporkmaker5150]

Not Gucci, they were made by Hugo Boss.

[@Tempusverum]

"Gucci Guilty eau de parfum"

[@FUNZO1975]

@@Sporkmaker5150 H.B. made tyranny look good.

[@Sporkmaker5150]

@@whatever12. Right, but my statement is historical fact.

[@leaderneptune]

I thought they were made by Hugo Boss

[@royroland3884]

I read in a history book that a lot of German men joined the SS just so they can wear those awesome looking uniforms.

[@amasing115]

Many of the Germans enlisting truly did not understand the horrors that were taking place under the Reich. I can't blame them for joining for such reasons, it really is a beautiful uniform.

[@rachelmclaughlin1491]

Don't blame them, good looking uniforms alot of the time used to get people to join

[@WideAwakeHuman]

Chicks love uniforms is a timeless truth

[@peterhedrich7653]

😀most racist´s wear cool uniforms -i like Gen. Nathan Bedford Forests csa cavalerrie uniform (only the look in no way for what that stands )- the kluklux klan kilt was more ridicouls - the Man a slaveholder from a former centurie but couldt be easy Part of such shit like the ss - the SaalSchutz was a in the beginning of the desaster a gang of thugs which had to protecd the Speakers of Nsdap party when those criminals hold their Bullshit speaches . later their Boss was Heinrich Himmler a former historie teacher later on a devil in human look -The other gang of thugs was the SA (Sturmabteilung ) their Boss was the Gay - Röhm was killed later

[@Nitidus]

​@@amasing115This is a common myth brought into circulation right after the end of WW2 to reinstate the reputation and integrity of millions of men (and women, to a lesser degree). Even decades ago, overwhelming evidence had already been presented to definitively prove this was a protective lie from the moment it was voiced for the first time. The large majority of Germans knew about the Shoah. They knew where "the Jews were going" and why they never come back. Enough concentration camps and crematoria were situated next to town, even though Auschwitz was far away. They knew that fathers and husbands were executing Poles, Sinti and Roma left and right because they literally talked about it in their letters to their families. They did not keep it a secret. They were proud of it. The rampant anti-Semitism, anti-Ziganism, anti-Communism etc. were all manifest in society. The German populus supported what they pretended to be "necessary measures." Once a family had been deported, their neighbors raided their home, stole their valuables or even settled in there. They were very well aware that there won't be anybody who could ever reclaim it; or so they thought, at least. Sure, as an enlisted soldier you didn't know the ins and outs of what exactly was happening where. The upper echelon of the Nazi government themselves didn't know in most cases. They designed the slaughter machine to run mostly automatically. But every child knew what the overall goal was and what needed to be done to achieve it. They supported it. You can't do that and then wonder that you're supposed to murder a bunch of starving children as you arrive at the hinterlands of the front line. This debate is as old as the German Federal Republic. People wanted to forget immediately because that's kind of desirable when you lose after doing all this stuff. They wanted the easy way out. They knew very well why their men and fathers stopped talking and why they became so angry and violent all of a sudden. The Allies supported this "collective amnesia" because they needed to wash away all the reasons for why a respectable man could never let those people occupy public offices ever again. And of course, "Now that there are no more dirty and messy annihilation camps everywhere, all in all, the Communists over to the East are actually kind of worse." There have been extreme generational clashes in Germany as children grew older and decided not to take their parents' silence for an answer anymore. The debate has been settled. Those soldiers didn't open a Kinder Surprise. They knew. At the very least, even though I don't want to be diplomatic here, but at the *very least* they knew enough to be 100% responsible and guilty. They knew more than enough to feel the need as a basic human being to take up arms against this government and fight. But they didn't. Because they liked what they were told. Don't spread the age-old, long since refuted apologetic lies.

[@Berzerk-cr2cy]

Funny story, one of my earliest memories was drawing a swastika from one of the books on my parents shelves when I was about 5, I had no idea what it was it just looked cool. All I remember after that was my mum looking at me like she wanted to murder me and screamed “šta ti je bre”. It was the first thing I ever remember drawing or getting in trouble for.

[@YUGOPNIK]

Good mom.

[@Berzerk-cr2cy]

@@YUGOPNIK great Balkan mum, she felt bad that she got angry after and made me pljeskavica lol

[@brownerjerry174]

What does that mean?

[@cartis808s3]

@@brownerjerry174 what?

[@hectorvega621]

@@Berzerk-cr2cy I remember doing the same, but instead of the nazi flag, it was the modern confederates flag. Still regret having drawn that, but I was a kid that didn't know much.

[@joechilds3256]

Most actors do enjoy wearing these uniforms in film because it makes them feel powerful

[@mikepastor.k6233]

I.e..Tom Cruise in valkyrie'. I'm sure he was feelin it

[@sirshotty7689]

Funny how on a practically no budget high school production of the sound of music it tended to be the opposite. Everything was itchy and sweaty.

[@Marcus280898]

This is an underrated comment, so many big name actors who virtue signal on Twitter love to be cast in WW2 era films so they can role play as Nazis. I have to assume they have an underlying desire to emulate their culture and being cast as a Nazi is the only acceptable way they can do it.

[@thomasjordan5578]

Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner two Jewish guys in an episode of Star Trek. Shatner especially got right in character. 😉🙏

[@Preussenpenner]

Stephen Fry once described the uniform to emit a sense of dark beauty, akin to a venomous snake

[@KronStaro]

"If looks could kill" - Hugo Boss 1938

[@flysouljah9449]

sheeeeesh rip Hugo Boss 2021

[@hansmeyer7225]

Not Hugo Boss

[@OtterMoone]

Omg you win

[@zyriuz2]

Ironically "the look to die for" for the Germans 😅

[@sjoormen1]

@John Henni They didn't. To expensive and high maintenace.

[@Whatisvr]

When i was in elementary school had an art project where us kids had to choose a flag out of this massive flag book and draw/color it. I chose the Nazi flag purely cause i thought it looked cool and i transformed an entire piece of paper into a nazi flag (used a ruler to make the swastika prefect proportionately and used a bowl to create a perfect circle, was really pleased with how good it looked) the teacher gasped and called my parents XD i dont think the teacher new the nazi flag was even in the book. it had 10,000+ flags in it lol i dont remember cause it was so long ago but i dont think anyone even told me what was wrong with the flag

[@theother1406]

Graphically it's eye-popping. Your eye went straight to it. The black, white and red is by all accounts the most graphic eye grabbing color combo. Black, white & red are the first color range a new-born can see. Your teacher was an idiot.

[@STOPSYPHER]

It’s the bad nono flag, ain’t you heard

[@michelleafton2377]

​@@STOPSYPHERhow would they know if they were in elementary lmao

[@eltivo503]

⁠@@STOPSYPHERyou never dealt with children, did you?

[@WanderingForgedWind]

its because the nazi flag symbol looks like something spinning

[@stefanb6539]

I am getting old enough to start to realize what an incredible short period 12 years are.

[@notinghere2190]

Good.

[@RinrvUSA]

And yet how little time it took these extremists to damage our civilization.

[@aloadofbollocks988]

@@RinrvUSA ye I hate Zionists and commies aswell

[@Lack_Of_Interest]

@@aloadofbollocks988 : "ye I hate Zionists and fascists aswell" Fixed.

[@HelloHamburger]

@@Lack_Of_Interest My dude, the Soviet Union killed many of their own people as well. They were really no better than the Nazis and decided to form an alliance with them.

[@majorblin8962]

Lol I remember watching Indiana Jones and the last crusade as a child, seeing the German uniforms and thinking, "I want clothes like that."

[@j.w.b5048]

Yes, major Vogel had a great uniform. Together with his face, it fit the perfect way.

[@majorblin8962]

@@j.w.b5048 remember jones' uniform he wore at the Nazi rally ?

[@j.w.b5048]

@@majorblin8962 Yeah, but it did not catch my attention at the same level. Maybe it was too dark or too short, but I did not focus on it. Besides it looked more traditional.

[@kaletovhangar]

Fun fact:Those were actually authentic uniforms found somewhere in eastern Europe,so you could bet somebody actually wore that dark SS uniform during ww2.

[@ANYA.RIZALI]

meow meow

[@siopaoboy7550]

I went to a museum with my dad when I was littler. I had seen KKK uniforms before in books. It was scarier in person, even though it was a dummy. If a uniform looks scary, it's likely intentional.

[@Black_pearl_adrift]

Honestly it's a bit like clowns to me. They look silly I think "who could ever wear this?" But then I remeber what they did in those uniforms what it meant for *them* and that puts a shiver down my spine.

[@randomtechpriest]

@@Black_pearl_adrift "Who could wear this?" I tell you who, Spanish Penitents their clothing called the Capirote which they use during Semana Santa and they look really similar to the KKK uniform *BECAUSE THEY STOLE IT FROM THE THE SPANIARDS!* Edit: Also I find it funny that the KKK and the Nazis, both are horrible groups but they lack originality, The Nazis Swastika was taken from the Hindu sign of Peace and they only slightly tilt it Now that sign and the Capirote will be forever be tainted by these dumbasses especially if the person doesn't know the context and fear those

[@Black_pearl_adrift]

@@randomtechpriest true true. I have a freind who's well versed on Hinduism and explains how even Hindus won't use the symbol sometimes because of the historical association. Which fucking sucks

[@aidanproductoins4]

@@randomtechpriest I thought that the KKK uniform was designed to symbolise the ghosts of fallen confederate soldiers or something like that, and the resemblance to the Spanish Capirote was just a coincidence.

[@IdaSofiaXOXO]

Do you perhaps remember where the muesum is?

[@uncharted-desert-isle]

My old friend and neighbor was a WWII Veteran from England and he said "The Bloody Bosch had style."

[@mrmeglomania]

"Speaking of genocide" is now my favorite non sequitur.

[@MK_ULTRA420]

You just lost social credit points for that, bud.

[@-47-]

Do you mean segway?

[@ccole1255]

@@-47- no he presumably means he will talk about this video (or maybe just genocide in general?) no matter what the topic of conversation already is among his friends

[@okloshbrokla8154]

because the ygoslav army has comited 2 genocides in the 90s where they erected literal death camps of bosniaks and albanians

[@rlm2933]

It isnt genocide

[@summerstride752]

"All though my humour is almost as bad as genocide." That joke killed me.

[@maria-melek]

Same I felt bad for laughing as well

[@mirachan4830]

Same😂😂😂

[@someoneprobably1016]

Badum-tss

[@baron9982]

You and six million other people

[@aerofish0]

@@baron9982 💀

[@ThatElfNerd]

Sadly, this brings to mind, a quote from the movie Megamind: "Oh you're a villain all right, just not a super one." "What's the difference?" "PRESENTATION!"

[@TheEldritchHyena]

Hitler definitely would have said that to Stalin's face if they met IRL.

[@tktspeed1433]

@@TheEldritchHyena even if Stalin was at least equally evil

[@thecrawler1265]

@@tktspeed1433 oh, but he was as equally evil

[@tktspeed1433]

@@thecrawler1265 yes, that's what I meant, though considering he executed a lot of his own commanders and high ranking officers, I'd say he was more evil.

[@tktspeed1433]

@ThePotatoMan yes.

[@midwesternlassalle]

I sorted by new, biggest mistake of my life

[@Fred_the_1996]

for real lmao

[@rolloxra670]

I think that mostly of the “neo-nazis”, at least young ones are more attracted by the aesthetics than by the ideology.

[@HighFlySoyGuy]

The aesthetics are better than the beliefs. If someone could take inspiration from that aesthetic and fit it on a better, more grounded ideology they’d be unstoppable.

[@Nothing-ch3dw]

@Anew Divinhell That shouldn’t be an argument against. That should scare you.

[@kvdrr]

@@HighFlySoyGuy Yeah, Apple does just that

[@hubguy]

@@HighFlySoyGuy I wanna do that tbh I've always loved the aesthetic but it had to be slapped onto something so evil

[@HighFlySoyGuy]

@@hubguy not just evil but inconsistent and hypocritical

[@ziggyiggy4525]

“No point in using the Flammenwerfer, cause we be looking Fire”- idk some Nazi soldier

[@issakherrschaft4582]

Lol

[@spaghetti5914]

I-

[@Lavendre]

I can visualize it, and boy is it funny!

[@ferner_w]

To Bad they spoke german where the Word play Doesnt work

[@elwampo135]

@@ferner_w Its a joke. And he could have said "Wir sehen heiß aus". 🔥

[@theshmancemancer]

Even growing up as a Jewish kid who had far more understanding of what these symbols and aesthetics meant, I still always thought to myself how cool they looked.

[@ryhanzfx1641]

@Fabian Kirchgessner and? You're trying to tell us something with that?

[@Shanoyu19271]

@Fabian Kirchgessner And what's your point?

[@madisonstoner7405]

That's the most worrying part about fascism; it's mostly aesthetic, so it draws people in.

[@Shanoyu19271]

@@madisonstoner7405 i'm not sure about that part buddy

[@atavism-dream]

@Fabian Kirchgessner "Many"? Doubt that

[@toxicman9128]

I kinda get a good chuckle every time I imagine two big buff SS guys trying on outfits going: “Hans, Look, zis is the new Hugo Boss jacket!” “Mein Gott Kurt, you look so… fabulous!!!!”

[@valerietaylor9615]

Homosexual acts would get a man expelled from the SS ( if that’s what you’re hinting at.)

[@yoruyoru720]

gürl, leik....slaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy

[@sumsum3873]

I award you the highest honor I can bestow: watching the video while I eat

[@twisxted1737]

hey

[@ANYA.RIZALI]

meow meow

[@NeoZeta]

Same thing here haha

[@twisxted1737]

@@ANYA.RIZALI bark bark

[@itsmj3103]

A grave mistake we make is underestimating evil. Evil can be smart, beautiful and fashionable. Being smart is not equal to being good and you can only decide which one you prioritize.

[@Thiswhatdoomsdaylistento]

No traits single handedly represents good and too much of them is bad. Intelligence: a serial killer’s ideal trait Loyalty: anyone can be loyal to a murderous empire Hardworking: you are working hard to maintain an exploitative system Altruism: sacrificing too much for others and hurting yourself Strong: using your strength to control and terrorize others Hospitality: leaves us vulnerable to dangers and cautions

[@cheapcraftygirlsweepstakes2338]

@@Thiswhatdoomsdaylistento “Based on a study of 113 serial killers in the Radford University Serial Killer Database, the mean IQ for serial killers is 101 and the median is 100. There is a tremendous range of IQs with a low of 57 and a high of 165.”

[@ambatuBUHSURK]

@@Thiswhatdoomsdaylistento intelligence : a serial just trust me bro killer's ideal trait

[@barrackobama2216]

@@ambatuBUHSURK How do you think they get away with murders? Pure luck?

[@ambatuBUHSURK]

@@barrackobama2216 they usually used to get away due to a lack of law enforcement giving a 💩 about women

[@meto9552]

"The War crimes don't count if the fit is fresh" - Barack Obama

[@joescannoli7660]

No wonder Mr. Obama had the fresh lineup every day, my man practiced what he preached.

[@SeekJesusFindLife]

Barak, "collateral damage" Obama.

[@Josephb.p]

- Big Floppa

[@SigmaVonLifter69]

Based.

[@Rid_Of_Thee]

Based Obama?

[@thesixpkamerican1]

All that fear, or elegance didn't matter when met with the cold barrel of an American rifle

[@Sammimack]

based

[@Donovan_berk]

Look up allied casualties

[@thesixpkamerican1]

@@Donovan_berk look up who won....

[@Donovan_berk]

@@thesixpkamerican1 🇩🇪 vs 🌏

[@valentinov901]

​@@Donovan_berk Sorry "kiritokun",they still lost

[@neojenshi4055]

I always got scared for expressing my liking towards nazi/ german ss uniform, nice to see all of these people who can safely agree.

[@vaxrvaxr]

Comforting those masses, aren't they.

[@Illiterate_Degenerate]

They got that drip son 😩

[@floral2743]

God i wish they made more uniforms with red and black and with the structure, but without the ideology, because the uniforms are straight up hot

[@eglantinepapeau1582]

yeah there's a difference between loving their outfits and loving them

[@harunocaleon4690]

@@eglantinepapeau1582 don't expect leftists to understand that lmao

[@legateelizabeth]

Always remember kids: the bad guys always look the best.

[@yoinkster6491]

And thats why I play as them.

[@likira111]

This is fuel for neckbeards.

[@asscheeks3212]

@@likira111 and these neckbeards exist in all forms of the political spectrum.... the alt right incel, the leftist feminist simp, and the pompous centrist discord mod, all three you know harass girls one time in their lives and are overweight

[@krismakardikan9823]

Someone once said something like, "Throughout history, the Bad Guys have always had the best uniforms".

[@brianlong2334]

@@krismakardikan9823 Not when they won but... when they won they were the cool good guys...lol Roman's, Vikings, Mongals just a few come to mind...

[@s.c.p-foundation6923]

You may hate them but you cannot ignore their great fashion sense.

[@arthas640]

It's too bad their uniforms turned into the default "laughably evil villain" uniform for lazy writers since their uniforms are so unique and so amazing. Usually when an army develops an amazing piece of equipment or design everyone copies them, such as cavalry helmets from parthia into rome or Roman equipment into armies across Europe

[@s.c.p-foundation6923]

@@arthas640 Well intimidation and optimization would surely have been in play if we're talking armour but uniform? Not so sure about that.

[@s.c.p-foundation6923]

BAAKA MONOGA!!! Doitsu no kagaku wa sekai ichi!

[@porothashawarma2339]

HUGO BOSS 😉

[@hereticgrim]

@@RandomDudeOne Does that make them the good guys now in the 21st century?

[@domesticbanana6766]

I didn't finish the video so I don't know if it was already stated but a lot of this gets tied back into pretty basic art principles such as shape language and color understanding. If you were to take silhouettes of the uniforms you will notice the dominating shapes are squares and triangles. When designing, overall shape is often taken into account because we as people associate different shapes with different traits, such as circles being soft, comforting, squares being sturdy and strong, and triangles being dangerous but balanced. If you look at villainous cartoon characters much of their design will be very angular with dark color pallets or monochromatic. Notice how because of the belted waist, you create this sort of triangle shape that fans downward. If were to simplify it down more, the hats are spherical triangles, when viewed from above they are round, however from the front or side they make a point. The transitions from the pants to the boots create a triangular shape. These observations are easier to spot when looking at the drawings showcased in the video. That being said this same logic is also applied to clothing silhouettes, specifically when trying to differentiate between masculine and feminine silhouettes or differentiating between occasions, ie formal vs non formal. The shape language of the uniform is not only supposed to be seen as dangerous and strong but also very masculine. This along with the fact that black is on the end of one extreme and red being the highest on the color hierarchy makes for very eye-catching but also striking appearance. Clothing is just another form of art and art has a long history of being used as propaganda. Similarly to luxury brands, the uniforms are used as a marker of class, they create this "in group" appeal. Separating "Elites" from the rest of society. Anyways this is just my understanding from someone who studies art and fashion but not so much history and politics.

[@kahvikuppi8410]

I know this is an old comment, but I really appreciate the analysis on shape language and colors here, because I'm very interested in character design and would like to study costume design some day, so this is all valuable information for someone like me

[@soffren]

This is what you get when you don't let an art student into school. He uses his art for evil. Best marketing and branding is history

[@vivvy_0]

@SCN why didn't he became an architect?

[@HyperionTwo]

@@vivvy_0 Because he didnt want to be an architect. He wanted to be an artist. ''Hey the nurse in training failed medical school but was good at sewing wounds, why didn't she become a seamstress?'' Same exact question.

[@augustuzmoon3814]

@@HyperionTwo Okay well let's change it to "When you tell the aspiring artist to do archetict work instead of letting him do art."

[@ANYA.RIZALI]

meow meow

[@soffren]

@SCN I'm not changing joke to suit historical fact, particularly as it's almost entirely based on subtle nuance. Was he not rejected (even if it was at the suggestion to switch to architecture)? Did he not use his art for evil?

[@LyricNear]

As a theater costumer who's constantly seeing designs get criticized for being Nazi-like (especially in kid's stuff) and always on the fence on how far you can go, this is a wonderfully educational video!

[@SukkaPunch321]

Which designs are people saying are nazi like? Like just a generic military costume?

[@PiLLO360]

@@SukkaPunch321 ^

[@Mr._Zook]

@@PiLLO360 thats a very suspicious profile picture you have there

[@dallowfusionblast]

@@Mr._Zook Bro literally has a fascist symbol in it, ofc they are

[@jom.6181]

It's the 47 symbol by capital streez. New York based conscious rapper. He makes albums like ameriKKKan Korruption. Worth a listen and not probably fascist, it's just provocative imo but I'm not to informed on him and personally an antifascist so there's that

[@Gun_Talk]

Those were some of the best looking uniforms probably ever. Too bad they were worn by the bad guys.

[@literallyshaking8019]

The bad guys always look the coolest.

[@chelo4197]

@@literallyshaking8019 damn straight

[@carlosandleon]

The fact that they were worn by the bad guys make them even cooler.

[@edgewayround]

Yeah, Hugo Boss was a genius.

[@fadhil2831]

@@edgewayround hugo boss produce the cloth not the design,tha nazi came with the design

[@Iudicatio]

Honestly this explains a lot. My grandmother was never particularly racist. I have never once heard her use racial slur or say demeaning things about other races. I have never heard her say anything about Jews at all. In recent years, she sacrificed many hours of her time to help Syrian refugees at her church without any pay. When my grandfather started to get dementia and say racist things he never said before, she got very upset. But at the same time, she had been a Hilter fangirl from the time she was young. This always confused me. It was just the vibes, I guess. Maybe if she was young now we would call it Nazicore lmao.

[@Lifeonthefastlane007]

"Nazicore" 😅 lmao the internet is a lawless place

[@dustbowlhammer7119]

My father was in ww2, and even he told me as a kid, that the Germans had the best uniforms xD.

[@franktheclank2765]

doubt ur father was in ww2

[@midgetman4206]

@@franktheclank2765 why do you say that? I actually want to know. my guess would be because the commenter would be around 60 yrs old and so they would fall way out of this videos demographic

[@zufalllx]

My grandfather was as well. He liked the uniforms so much, he brought one home 🤣

[@ANYA.RIZALI]

meow meow

[@larryhall2805]

Well those uniforms didn't work too well in the Russian weather.

[@HighFlySoyGuy]

I remember saying “those guys look friggin cool. I want a suit like that!” back in 2nd grade. The Teacher was going to lose her shit until she realized the little black kid said it. In my defense, I didn’t know the history yet.

[@AZ-kr6ff]

I'm curious how old you are. I never thought they were cool looking until I was much older. In 1st and second grade I just thought it was truly evil looking, but this was in the 1970's and my grandfather served in WW2, so there was definitely a close association that formed my perspective.

[@-alovelygaycat-]

@@AZ-kr6ff Well, second grade in America is the ages of 7-8 typically. So pretty young.

[@AZ-kr6ff]

@@-alovelygaycat- Not really. More like 11 or 12 if you're birthday is early in the year, and if you start a year late and are held back for a couple years, so you're wrong.

[@-alovelygaycat-]

@@AZ-kr6ff Oh, maybe we’re talking about different places then. Myself and my classmates were 7 and 8 in the second grade. I had my 8th birthday that year. The age range you gave me of 11-12 would be closer to 5th grade where I’m from.

[@AZ-kr6ff]

@@-alovelygaycat- Right, unless you're birthday is very early in the year, and you start a year late, and you're held back for 2 years... then you'd be closer to 10 or 11.

[@ineffablemars]

I can't deny the allure of the Nazi uniform aesthetic.. and I identify with the story at the beginning.

[@green2498]

let me guess, you think balls are underrated?

[@ineffablemars]

green Like... testicular?

[@green2498]

@@ineffablemars yes

[@coolnormalandwelladjusted]

@@green2498 bruh what..?

[@green2498]

@@coolnormalandwelladjusted i said that she thinks balls are underrated

[@atlys258]

Lmao the iron cross was literally just participation trophy, I'm fucking crying 😂😂😂

[@StealthCloudchaser]

I got a Hugo Boss ad right before the "Uniform of evil" Perfect add placement on KZbin's part

[@vaultboy2252]

No joke I looked up this same topic a few weeks ago and got a hugo boss ad on one of the videos at the end 🤣

[@1LuvMLPFiM]

Even the KZbin algorithm respects their aesthetic.

[@Tiger_Pumper]

Don't forget HB only manufactured them. Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck were the driving force behind the designs.

[@StealthCloudchaser]

@@Tiger_Pumper Yes, That is often forgotten.

[@ANYA.RIZALI]

meow meow

[@prasad5703]

Honestly those SS uniforms were specifically crafted to emit different aura and to make the onlooker known that they were looking at an Elite in every way, from the All Black outfit adorned with medals to the Hat with the Totenkompf ( ☠️ ) loved the amount of research you did for this video and I'm glad it got recommended since I'm a major ww2 buff and came here straight from a Mark Felton video... Cheers

[@redheadmetalhead247]

*Totenkopf

[@schizophreniagaming1187]

"Hans, are we the baddies?"

[@Havermeyer7908]

Hans: *wipes his feet on the body of the jew being used as a dormat* defiantly not.

[@anglo-nord126]

said the comedian named david with his massive schnoze*

[@appleslover]

A question a lot of people should ask themselves routinely

[@johnblow9086]

No

[@mikepowell8611]

Not if you're killing commies.

[@Khalith]

The use of aesthetics and looks to convey power is important. From the galactic empire to the Nazis, the use of looks and symbolism when integrated in to the propaganda has a massive effect.

[@theinternetexplorer7873]

You know for a guy that represents himself with a Wojak you did some impressive analysis on this.

[@oimate6357]

Someone who doesn’t represent themselves with some smug avatar is probably better in a multitude of ways than those who do

[@timpauwels3734]

All I could think of was That Mitchell and Webb look: “Hans...the badge on our cap is a scull. ...are we the baddies?” 😂

[@matcauthon9669]

"Well it might be to show the superior Aryan skull?"

[@timpauwels3734]

@@matcauthon9669”maybe it’s pirates! Pirates are fun!”

[@catriona_drummond]

it's Prussian hussars actually.

[@matcauthon9669]

@@timpauwels3734 "But they are still the baddies."

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

Baroque-era "Memento Mori", but twisted to mean "we can kill you and your family any second now".

[@Lily-mk7mm]

"the aesthetic of evil" damn the title is good

[@rlm2933]

Evil for your side, good for our side

[@ArnoldTohtFan]

@@rlm2933 damn straight! to hell with all these simpering, feckless SJWs

[@purplepotatoes9255]

@@ArnoldTohtFan being a Nazi to own the libs lmfaoooo

[@ArnoldTohtFan]

@@purplepotatoes9255 yeah, why not?

[@americancommunist6076]

@@ArnoldTohtFan you know Communists hate liberals more than you do lmao

[@skyblues8785]

SS stands for ‘So Stylish’

[@tactknightgaming2066]

Super Stylish lol

[@eltivo503]

@@tactknightgaming2066Superior Style

[@HeathenDance]

People who are fascinated by this style, remind me of those who, in the 80's, prefered the Goth aesthetics over the ones of Heavy Metal.

[@KAOS-rz1lb]

imagine a uniform so elegantly and beautifully vile, evil and scary, people are AFRAID to compliment it.

[@artvandelay5565]

It's probably that people are hesitant of directing compliments to any concept tainted with some of humanity's worst atrocities. Pretty much the same reason you wouldn't put on the rolex of a convicted serial killer.

[@KAOS-rz1lb]

@@MrRjizz i never said i was afraid

[@PaulAntiChrist]

@@MrRjizz knowing most people don’t give a jack shit about history it’s easy to go to school and just ingest your countries propaganda and not think too much of it

[@jovicatrpcevski209]

The Ustashas' uniforms in WW2 were even blacker & more sinister than the SS's in my opinion. The only things that made the Chetniks so scary were their beards & long hair.

[@Basedlocation]

@@artvandelay5565 you sound like a pussy lol

[@danamahr3773]

This video is very good. I am a German professional historian (history of science & technology) and couldn’t have written a better paper on « Power and Aesthetics » in totalitarian regimes. Chapeau @Yugopnik.

[@YUGOPNIK]

Thank you so so much!

[@thechadbuddha]

ywnbaw

[@johannageisel5390]

@@YUGOPNIK Btw. your pronouciation of German is also pretty good. :) The only little inaccuracy I've noticed is that you stressed "Wehrmacht" on the second syllable, but it is being stressed on the first. Apart from that, very good!

[@FragbiteOeXistenz]

NSDAP Germany is not even close to current German state when it comes to totalitarianism, Merkel and her socialist friends are crasy.

[@joapercan6887]

@@FragbiteOeXistenz I'd ask how they could be worse than Nazi Germany, but because you use "NSDAP", I think anything you say will be incredibly stupid.

[@Tiger_Pumper]

*_When your whole crew lookin' fresh AF_*

[@lily.s.]

"Have you ever said "He*l H*tler" or did the n*zi-salute?" *almost spits out the drink in German* 💀

[@LoseMillion]

"I did, when I was like 5 or 6"

[@Lobos222]

I have never done the salute, but unlike allot of people I have actually had "toys" that were Nazi ww2 original helmet, ww2 KAR98 bayonet and later an actual real life Nazi Germany produced surplus occupation storage KAR98 with Swastikas, German serial numbers and all stamped into the metal (never used in combat). As a kid I ran around in the forest, next to old cannons and such playing. Had no clue about the helmets and such while ironically knowing allot about Nazis. The latter being why I even as a little kid never done the salute, even as a joke. My home town disdain for the Nazis were that strong, but since our town was attacked (Nazis lost about 1000, our town lost 4 civilians and 0 military). There were allot of Nazi German stuff around, even in the 90s, and in turn allot of kids were actually, without their knowledge, including me, playing with war trophies our grandfathers had. Later I joined cadets like unit that had ww2 surplus storage rifles as their main weapon, aka the Nazi KAR98. Afterwards joined the real military and became a shock trooper sergeant. I have had 3 different national service rifles, more or less qualified instructor on all weapons our nations soldiers can carry and even today, as an exmil. I would NOT hesitate to blow a Nazi away if I jumped into a foxhole with one. What some times shock far right wingers when they hear my background. Is that they have this propaganda wall in front of them that makes them think the only ones they will be facing if they rise again are "feminine boy girls" or similar. Ironically, because while I was in the military we looked for far right wingers to prevent them being recruited. Was that their hallmarks were often that they were followers, not leaders, and cowards. Which maybe makes sense, I mean. Who would be scared of a gay guy or insert other minority unless they were actual cowards. Far right wingers, totalitarian supporters, of any side. Will just stifle society. Even ww2 Nazi German scientists were NOT created by the system, rather created by the system that was before the Nazis took power in Germany. I mean, just look at the lack of innovation in other totalitarian places like China. Copy, paste and or up-scaling is not innovation.

[@LoseMillion]

@@Lobos222 WTF

[@clericaltotalitarian]

No such thing as a nazi salute.

[@Cal-Valhalla]

@@LoseMilliondon’t cry

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

I feel the need to point this out to every neo-nutzi I come across, that the furher would be utterly ashamed of them, based on appearance alone. Unshaved faces, tattoos, etc.

[@rumpelstilzz]

@John Milton That kind of people was the initial recruiting pool of the SA. Scum from the streets was recruited, put into brown shirts and swastika arm bands, and used to destroy enemy factions and the weak order of the Weimar Republic. After the NSDAP came to power, they didn't need those people anymore so they disarmed them, put them in the camps, killed them, or integrated those they could still use into the newly founded SS. Google ' Röhm-Putsch' ('Roehm Coup') So yes, I think ze Nazis of old would make a use of Aryan Brotherhood, Neo Nazis whatever. Until they threaten to grow too influential or they stop being of use.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

@@rumpelstilzz Amen, just as Stalin got rid of everyone who helped him oust his competition; the minute they were no longer useful, they were.... "removed".

[@sirshotty7689]

@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay it’s funny how that turned out because Stalin was basically viewed the same way by the Bolshevik party well the ones that weren’t put in power by Stalin at least.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

@@sirshotty7689 The powerless ones viewed Stalin as tattooed and unshaven?

[@alexshorty3719]

@John Milton And that's a fact since criminals and imprisoned people were entitled as just that- "Asoziale" or as you said "sub humans". Nonetheless it's always sad to see people fall for Nazism. Imprisoned or not.

[@icebiirb9440]

i used nazi uniforms to study for character design, both for leader/disciplined characters and villians, maybe mixes. cant imagine what my fbi agent thinks looking at my search history lmao

[@h3nder]

Your FBI agent thinks you're a perfect fit for the American government.

[@ziinx5899]

Lol, your FBI agent is probably on a cakewalk compared to mine...

[@ogrynmod1765]

Same Bruh

[@501ststormtrooper9]

My FBI Agent is probably trying to book me a free helicopter ride for mildly disliking any restriction of freedom of speech.

[@ItsAstie]

@@h3nder lmfao

[@andrejmucic5003]

The bourgeois French did this with Napoleon. He paid his men with status uniforms that got them laid; one way or the other.

[@pierren___]

True. First Republic uniforms were made by David, an excellent painter. Same with the Kings

[@SusCalvin]

Not only them, a lot of units in napoleonic armies have symbols of their history or status or honours in their uniform. Part of demotions and punishment could include stripping those details that signify your grenadier status.

[@skepticmonkey6923]

Yeah but Napoleon was based.

[@pierren___]

@@skepticmonkey6923 really?

[@judsongaiden9878]

@@skepticmonkey6923 He was also the second of four antichrists. Charlemagne was the first. Hitler was the third. The fourth will be the Beast of Revelation.

[@RalfSiegesmund]

Thank you for disclosing your experience from when you were a young naive impresionable boy. As a German i had unimaginable difficulty to trying to understand theses horrific parts of history and of humanity. Making videos like this feels much more valuable to what we can learn from, let's say reading wikipeadia articles. I am very grateful for this work/documentary.

[@caad5258]

Describing fascists as obsessed LARPERS is very satisfying.

[@rlm2933]

In that case, we can call american allies larper also

[@parable8711]

what is a larper?

[@Black_pearl_adrift]

@@thatperson2981 well... I mean look at them... they do look like they're more obsessed with what they're wearing than... idk having a comprehensible ideology.

[@thatperson2981]

@caitlin ୨୧ The owner of this channel surely is, in the head.

[@ms.bunniesarecute2287]

@@thatperson2981 go back to 4chan /pol/ack

[@Bravo_L]

I feel like a child waiting for a new episode of pokemon 😂 cant wait to see it tovarishch 🤝

[@Bravo_L]

Lmfao, i agree but we gotta give the optics that we arent savages bro and we really arent but the media will back a facist over comrade anyday of the week. We need more working class on our side. Solidarity ✊🤝

[@americancommunist1776]

@@Bravo_L agreed.

[@uhtmilk5032]

@@acezheng8148 gotta catch em all and put on trail

[@Shoxic666]

@@Bravo_L Commies get the bullet too

[@Jane_8319]

I have often thought about how the fascist fashion looks and feels powerful - I am glad I have seen someone else do a proper academic dissection of this topic. The propaganda of evil is all-encompassing, and we must understand it to resist it.

[@normanclatcher]

If I may turn that on its head... The evil of propaganda is all-encompassing, and we must resist it to understand it.

[@harleyshoaf4916]

Hitler wasn’t much of a general , but he was a hell of a costume designer .

[@Hashashin_Fidayin]

Back when History Channel played history, I remember watching a doc that had an eyewitness interview with a man who was a young boy in Germany during the rise of the nazis. He was Jewish, but said that he once joined in a night time torch-walk because it looked cool at night and he wanted to see what everyone was doing. Its crazy how strong the feeling to conform can be. If you look up "Social Conformity - Brain Games" you can see how easy we can conform.

[@brog5330]

Thinking about this kinda makes it feel like just another case of those who believe themselves in power using art trying to project their imagined strength

[@theother1406]

It isn't an easy life to go against the mob. Most people would rather get along and have a wide circumference of acceptability. Most people can't bear the thought of being an outsider.

[@johnnymfbravo7163]

I'm no nazi supporter but you have to admit they had the sharpest looking military uniforms ever.

[@HeathenDance]

As a Metal head, I reject the fancy approach of dark aesthetics, also popularized by the Gothic Movement and even by Michael Jackson. It's not very manly, to be honest.

[@nodiggity9472]

British uniforms looked liked they were knitted by our Nans.

[@gregoryspatisserie9858]

I disagree with officer uniform but the standard one is very displeasing to the eye. Even the helmets , although utilitarian in the First World War , are naff.

[@blacksquirrel4008]

And in some cases actually were: Fisherman’s wives knitted odd shaped nets which they later found out were mesh insulating undershirts for commandos, but they didn’t believe it.

[@stevecariggillio4139]

They were quaint tho!

[@johnhenry4844]

Function over sex appeal bro’s

[@davidmcguire6043]

They were

[@jrist15]

“We’re not the bad guy, it’s for the betterment of society” *literally has a skull and crossbones on their uniform*

[@seanbui2724]

"we're not the bad guy, it's for equality" Literally protects jews

[@RAWALITY]

Totenkopf 322 skull and bone society aryan supremacy ubermensch

[@pommes0078]

Thats the ss thats a special force which was only there for the dirty work of coursethey had skulls on their uniform… every Country had People like them

[@kof867]

“Are we the baddies?”

[@dontcensormebro3217]

The totenkopf goes back to at least 1808. It's not like Adolf himself cooked up the symbol in 1933; this was already a well established german military symbol.

[@grandsome1]

The Nazi have to look cool as fuck to get your attention and suspend your critical thinking. It's the most dangerous implementation of the rule of cool, where you dismiss the inconsistencies of a story because of a really cool element.

[@MK_ULTRA420]

It was to convince themselves that their race and culture were superior to those they conquered.

[@berdyderg900]

@@MK_ULTRA420 well their fashion was, even if the other parts were dogshit

[@EMPtaticz]

@@berdyderg900 *other parts were superior in every way

[@berdyderg900]

@@EMPtaticz edgy

[@Caspian4454]

@@berdyderg900 And also not true because technologicaly their tanks were ineficient as fuck, their military strategy (especially in the soviet union) completely braindead and their war economy was a nigthmare.

[@waffle-waffle5416]

Not gonna lie Germans have the best uniform in WW1 and WW2 not only they have aesthetic value on those uniform but the color were very good because when you're fighting in the city those greyish color gonna blend so well, (unlike certain country with bright blue and red paired to create the best shooting target)

[@rainmanhart2809]

Americans be americans

[@olivierrodriguesneto5995]

In ww1 the first iteration of french uniforms even had gold colored buttoms, meaning that in a sunny day it could give some reflection and indicate their position to the enemies

[@kurvitaschthedictator]

@@olivierrodriguesneto5995 "honhonhon, fancy uniform better troops"

[@chev3569]

FUCK CAMOUFLAGE, WE DIE IN DRIP

[@williampurvis6067]

Reamember ,you are color blind.

[@diliscsavo3059]

Same here: I drew swastikas when I was in first class elementary school (effect of many ww2 movies), and got caught by the teacher. She immediately slapped my face a few times without explaining what the problem is. After that my brother explained it to me what the swastika refers to in European history. The explanation convinced me rather than the physical violence.

[@diesonneisthedude2668]

What not even an explanation ? Her job is to be a teacher not a bitch .

[@diliscsavo3059]

@@diesonneisthedude2668 Yes, you would expect that but she was too stupid to know what the problem with swastika's is. In the 80s many Hungarian elementary school teachers had only a high school degree.

[@sushitrash4949]

@@diesonneisthedude2668 I would've slapped her back. Swastikas mean propersity and has religious significance in S-asia

[@mainao3443]

@@sushitrash4949 not in Hungary

[@seraphinpanlion9101]

I did something similar lol, but thankfully the teacher just explained to me. The other kids in the class also drew swastikas in support lmao

[@PolenarTactical]

Amazing video!

[@joshuajoaquin5099]

Woah man your here too

[@pesci_fabio]

i wasn't expecting to see you here lol

[@YUGOPNIK]

Hey Polenar, learned my basic handgun skills thanks to you guys. Glad you liked it.

[@chevyvet69]

Glad to see you here I'm watching your video next

[@tiernanwearen8096]

@@YUGOPNIK are you a jew?

[@browngreen933]

This just proves that AH was a very successful artist.

[@tenpotkan7051]

-sees Fascist uniform in the title -clicks on the video -sees no Italians "My disappointment is immesurable and my day is ruined."

[@csanadjakab7717]

Indeed, people still tends to mix the 2 thing together.

[@jmirsp4z]

this so much

[@tenpotkan7051]

@@jmirsp4z this so much what?

[@jmirsp4z]

@@tenpotkan7051 this as in i agree with your comment

[@-SteampunkTraveler-]

​@@csanadjakab7717 fr 💀

[@gaius_enceladus]

If you look at **only** the uniform and the marching, what they convey is discipline and strength. Those things on their own are positive qualities so I think that goes to the core of things here.

[@pietervanniekerk1995]

I fully agree

[@vaxrvaxr]

Here's a heretical question for you. Can you have the discipline and strength, without the war crimes and genocide?

[@radicalbarrel2729]

@@vaxrvaxr it’s not fun if you don’t

[@vavhv]

@@vaxrvaxr A lot of martial arts schools are pacifistic but also practice and convey discipline and strength.

[@karabii]

Discipline and strength, at what cost? In spaces where there are those qualities, femininity is demeaned. Femininity is crushed and not allowed to breathe. In my experience, those types of spaces, ie. Martial arts or JROTC, stifle emotions (which bars all genders, not just women). It becomes emotionally abusive and damaging. Maybe we should reconsider if discipline and strength is taught in the wrong ways. I mean when you think of those things, I’m sure most people will think of muscled men (maybe even just white men), always heterosexual, and always individualistic except for their admiration for other men like them. Consider other forms of strength and other forms of discipline.

[@AlfredSoul]

Interestingly, the broad shoulders of the uniform jacket, the defined shape the waist belt gave to the upper body and the wide thigh parts of the breeches (trousers) emulate the form of a muscular male body, making the wearer look physically stronger and thus more intimidating.

[@mysteriiis]

Especially necessary for the high command. Ever see pix of Himmler in swim trunks? An SS uniform was the only way he avoided looking like a half-squished jelly donut.

[@TheLtVoss]

​@@mysteriiisbut the pants 😅 he never got the maskukin structure right with his clothing

[@sandracheeks1811]

It always makes me laugh to think that the neo-Nazis of today would never have made the cut with their fat guts, slovenly clothes and facial tattoos. And the funniest part is they don’t even realize it. 😂

[@shakey3306]

These neo nazis skin heads clearly doesn’t represent nazism and are just mentally ill people

[@浅野旅団]

“Tell me you are from the US without telling me that” Overall degeneracy may be not the part of specific group, but the part of specific culture instead 🙃

[@theunicornbay4286]

Yeahh most of the neo-nazis today look like himmler than the ideal aryan

[@arplays4837]

That is just how the average American looks...

[@DNITE1337]

European Fascists had strict physical standards and a better overall diet, Americans were very much lackluster. Pretty sure they still do. "Look Whos Back" shows a bit of Neo Nazism groups in the modern era.

[@davidrg6783]

man is a shame those sharp outfits are forever tainted

[@helpiamstuckonthismanshead3385]

Not forever wait until somone worse comes on the world stage and is defeated and people use them insted of the nazis to call things they don't like/ want to paint as bad as well as time then the stain will go away

[@shamusson]

@@helpiamstuckonthismanshead3385 or just implement them in non nazi ways

[@p.b.5107]

I wear leather boots with mid-length double breasted coat and gloves from fall to spring, but every stranger so far who made a comment on it thought I was on my way to horse riding training. The secret is the lack of symbols and a bit less militaristic way of using these. Like those loose trousers would take it too far but a normal one is harmless. Long hair also gives a less militaristic impression. I got a lot of compliments from strangers. When they asked, I told the truth: I'm not riding, I only like this way of look. (And I don't support nazism.) But even one country West from where I live, it would look very strange, I understand that. With all the sick fashion of these days.

[@MALICEM12]

The Asians disagree. Infact, once you go outside the boundaries of the West there are many peoples who do not see the Nazis as the West does and do not make a stigma about them.

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

@@MALICEM12 I believe there even was a Nazi themed parade in Taiwan. And many places like India and Japan still use swasticas in temples, there are even some Native tribes that use them

[@buckplug2423]

the madman did it he actually put the forbidden cross on YT

[@icewink7100]

"The fascists have the outfits, but I don't care for the outfits, what I care about is music, and the communists have the music" -They Might Be Giants

[@chubbyroll233]

@@normaaliihminen722 uhhh they did

[@YataTheFifteenth]

Gotta agree, but Teufelslied just straight up sounds menacing as if the SS just went "yes, we _are_ the bad guys, here is the evil theme music we needed" I mean come on, it literally means "Devil's Song"

[@solicitr666]

Meh. Shostakovich was always on the edge of a sentence to the Gulag for pushing against the Soviet hatred of modernism in music. Communism was a stultifying dead weight on all the arts- the best Russian composers of the 20th century were expats. The Nazis at least had Orff and Richard Strauss.

[@peter-8483]

What? Fascists promoted the arts, just not modern art, which was what the communists where pushing, degenerate and hyper sexual.

[@daniel6678]

tmbg are so goddamn based for that one

[@orvos1459]

Their uniform is a thousand times better than what most men wear today.

[@Naheed_Ahmed14]

Mashallah daddy Yugopnik has uploaded.

[@kaspersefir]

Mashallah daddy Naheed has left a comment

[@jakes1566]

@@kaspersefir Mashallah daddy caspian has left a reply

[@kaspersefir]

@Popocot Popocot Mashallah this thread is based

[@lazmanyacanavar5888]

@@kaspersefir Masallah you're all very based. Good days to you inshallah.

[@_lordtachanka_2314]

Mashallah yall the most halal Christians on earth.

[@demigodgamez]

If this video blew up and became viral, I can imagine how many people would try to cancel you for this on Twitter even without viewing it first.

[@nika_akina3152]

I thought of the same thing

[@sulfur_americium2993]

despite the massive disclaimer one cannot miss at the beginning too. It's sad to admit that your comment could actually happen lol, what's wrong with society anymore

[@demigodgamez]

@@sulfur_americium2993 Personally, I wasn't really bothered nor offended when I first saw the title and thumbnail. When I hear or watch stuff like this, I either take it as a funny meme or a history lesson, depending on the context and the intention of the person who made it.

[@demigodgamez]

@@sulfur_americium2993 Plus, people are getting oversensitive and that is made worse by the presence of social media, where both wise and intelligent people, jesters, and everything in between are allowed to express their opinion.

[@Crown1923DC]

@@demigodgamez I mean, it's Twitter. What did you expect them to do? Appreciating someone's taste and tolerate them?

[@st0ox]

They are called fascist for a reason, because they are fashionable.

[@lucianfrostbane]

Except the italians were led by a fascist too and they didnt have anywhere near the aesthetic.

[@wizardgoblin13]

@@lucianfrostbane not much things are good the first time

[@jacksonguillory8114]

@@wizardgoblin13 same with the Confederacy

[@lucianfrostbane]

@@wizardgoblin13 yeah apparently the one thing Mussolini was the most impressed about wasnt their uniforms it was the goosestepping

[@MrTheGuitarNerd]

"But what books were they burning?"

[@hulkhogansuperfan]

Great question

[@grmpEqweer]

"Propaganda becomes ineffective the moment we recognize it." Goebbels was mostly right.

[@davidtuley5898]

So true. We need more people to realize this today. Just look at today public school system.

[@BonShula]

@@davidtuley5898 In USA? What school system are you talking about?

[@vr3824]

he def was right in regards to propaganda, not in the rest tho^^

[@Lord11azerty11]

Well what about the psyop egirl? It's explicitly propaganda yet it works

[@holyX]

As a jew descendant from a nazi hunter, I can proudly say my bloodline took many nazi lives and HUMILIATED the ones that lived. Israel is as strong as ever and nazis are pathetic incels unable to procreate 😊

[@Blitzkrieg_Wolf]

"This is true of the Nazis... they're not lacking in vanity." - B.J. Blastkowitz

[@evanwallace416]

I would say lots of american uniform traditions stem from the indian wars, cowboy look even. So their interpretation of "practically" is very in line with both frontier soldiers in the indian wars and cowboys. Practicality is everything. The american culture is often associated with frontiersmen, and instead of decorated and flamboyant hussars, we end up looking like practical and basic frontiersmen.

[@skepticmonkey6923]

Interesting observation, its true that Americans really seem to like the "rugged, individualist" aesthetics, from cowboys, to Vietnam soldiers modifying their guns, uniforms and helmets to look unique.

[@spacetacos7574]

Yes Our view of war is all about making things work and the best way possible in work Not glorifying through an appearance lie but rather solid stats’s that can’t lie

[@soffren]

Ironically it was Vietnam who managed to finally defeat the US by embracing an even more extreme form of frontier combat and rugged practicality

[@rannxerox3970]

@@soffren Nah, Vietnam was very winnable but the military was never allowed to actually win the war. Hell, we never even bombed or invaded the North, cut off their supply lines from China, etc. Never again let D.C. fight a war for you.

[@soffren]

@@rannxerox3970 true. Plus after mass casualties and Generals quitting the public support was dead

[@MrRellic]

The "violent game of pretend" really resonated with me. The first time I took mushrooms I ended up visting my feelings and thoughts over faciscm. I ended up laughing myself sick at the idea that spontaneously came to me about them being basically cartoon charactersby the way they place an artificial/virtual layer of reality of racial science, fantasy history, fantasy warfare, and disconnected and misguided ancestor worship, over reality itself and violently and destructively "play" with reality with these ideas. You can see somewhat what I mean by modern faciscists having strong feelings towards Skyrim and LOTR.

[@1Dimee]

This an excellent video brother! Shoutout to my boi Umberto Eco! Analyzing the Psychological and Aesthetic appeal of political movements is very important and is something not encapsulated by a solely materialist approach.

[@reahslademhA]

Any military has uniforms designed to impress and intimidate. The nazis just used it more than anyone else. When graduating from bootcamp, I felt like I could step on the world, wearing the bespoke uniform. It really is an intoxicating feeling. And it taught me to always look sharp. I’m back to being a civilian but I’ll never leave the house without polished shoes, short hair, tamed beard, pressed shirts, and elegant dress pants ever again. What you wear really does matter.

[@wilberwhateley7569]

Indeed - the uniform of the fascist just dials the intimidation factor up to eleven, often sacrificing practicality in the process. Remember that the purpose of the uniform is to advertise the organization of the one who wears it…

[@gordonramsdale]

I’m sorry, were you a nazi?

[@Queen_of_Coffee]

I actually wore blazers and heels a lot in high school because of this. It made me feel important, smart, and stylish. Also got mistook for a teacher a few times.

[@idiot_city5444]

It doesn't really actually matter tho lol, it just matters to you

[@HIPHOPisforlowIQsub-animals]

@@idiot_city5444 spoken like a gender dysphoria suffering NPC clown.

[@rubyy.7374]

These dudes put the “fashion” in “fascism.” I’m going to hell.

[@TurboMintyFresh]

The joke is meant to be "they put the fash in fashion"

[@majdshaer]

The conclusion section transition is so damn fucking GOOD especially with the music

[@USAirsoft]

Wasn’t expecting to hear Sonne from Rammstein for the title cards. A pleasant surprise.

[@biggusdickus6537]

You’re one of the few fellow airsoft players I’ve seen and been sure they’re not a fascist. We need more lefties in our sport.

[@spaghetti5914]

YES

[@normaaliihminen722]

@@biggusdickus6537 You have really twisted way to see right wingers. Olet säälittävä.

[@biggusdickus6537]

@@normaaliihminen722 right-wingers are subhuman but go off

[@normaaliihminen722]

@@biggusdickus6537 We right-wingers keep economy going while you laiskajaakot ruins it.

[@jeanalisson]

It's interesting to me how, if you look at the batallion's movements (look at their legs in 12:24 for example), it looks very imposing and almost hypnotic how they manage to do it all in perfect synchrony , but then when you're able to distinguish a single person's body language (like 12:43), it's very "look at that silly man stomping his feet around like a twat".

[@MichaelRobertHart]

I had the exact same realization at 13:04 when that last trooper stumbles back into rank

[@serlistogiette4168]

What's the singular part?

[@steelhammer3922]

The intention is to build an association between individuality and weakness. Those who DO maintain lockstep with eachother will feel 'superior' to the guy who couldn't. Thus a sense of pride in the group's goals can get snuck in, because they share this experience. It's exactly as yugo said. Building community by exclusion rather than inclusion. Hate makes a great organising tool, because it's a good motivational tool.

[@koekiejam18]

Those marches are absolutely incredible for getting people „together” keep tempo and swings your legs right and you feel part of this massive warmachine, screw up and you get a hard and heavy boot on your calves, or even worse, you kick the guy infront of you and risk having your entire unit deem you „unfit” for service or even a traitor

[@Alessandro-vl8bu]

I appreciate the vulnerable position you put yourself in the beginning, it really puts into perspective the psychological effect of their appearance.

[@electricfishfan]

I think what is attractive about the footage and the uniforms that cannot be overstated is the appeal of consistency. The ideology was deeply inconsistent, but human beings LOVE being coddled and assured by icons of familiarity and rituals. Practically ever successful “psyop” has strong components of this-religion, gender, fashion, marketing, political organization, all rely on appearance to project uniformity, conformity, familiarity, and safety in power, as well as the opposite statement that foreignness stands in complete opposition to all those things. This is a powerfully attractive mindset playing on our evolutionary anxieties of being rejected, so it is no surprise that it attracts children and those with the the psychologies of children.

[@atrant2180]

I think itd be interesting to make a followup video on more modern iterations of this fascistic/paramilitary aesthetic in uniforms (police uniforms, far-right rallies dress codes etc etc..) which is much more practical but also heavy in signifiers and aiming at being intimidating

[@eminemrules121]

I was thinking that as well

[@curtislisle1212]

I always thought that modern attempts to use nazi symbols look completely silly and as idiotic as the people wearing them as genuine political statements. I think a good follow up video would be to see how people enfold the Nazi regime with WW2 German technological innovations. The same people that admire Nazi uniforms are similarly enamoured with German half-tracks, small-arms, camouflages, use of infra-red and even rocket technology. They usually frame it in such a way where the Nazis are seen as forward-looking innovators paving the way for the post-nuclear era. I wonder, if like the promotion of the uniform, this is historical fact or more propoganda at work. Or, perhaps, the Nazis unfairly appropriating Germany's pre- and post-Third Reich reputation for engineering excellence.

[@atrant2180]

@@curtislisle1212 good point, that would be onteresting to look into aswell. about the first part though, i did not mean to talk about ppl using blatant nazi symbolism (svastika, ss tattoos and such), but rather the evolvement of far right groups' para-military style, from wwII type uniforms to skinhead and hooligan-inspired outfits. which were then re used by the original Afa's for practical purpose

[@devinward461]

@@atrant2180 that would definitely include Punisher skulls, Pepe the frog, etc

[@AveSequoia]

@@devinward461 punisher skhlls is just country shit I've seen blacks in the south with it

[@herrfantastisch7489]

Love how he pronounces German words correctly, like "Reich". Not that "Rike"

[@benhur50022]

as a german I was really surprised by that. Most english natives dont even try pronouncing anything different than they would in their mother tongue

[@MALICEM12]

@@benhur50022 usually it's because we know we won't get it right so we just don't make any attempt. No point in butchering words, may as well just say them in English if one doesn't know how to say them.

[@holliisixx]

so it's pronounced like "rake" right? or Rache?

[@derkaiser2352]

@@holliisixx you can put reich in google translate and listen to it

[@grewdpastor]

well, with exception of : "Uebermensch" ;)

[@jaroslavbelohlavek2138]

It takes courage to talk about this stuff these days yet it's ever so important. Censoring past makes us forget it. And forgetting the past deems us to repeat it in the future. The road to better future won't be by pretendending that such evil didn't exist but by looking it straight in the face, understanding it and then chosing to reject it. Great job this had to take a loot of work.

[@Shin_Lona]

I don't think the history of WWII is being censored at all - at least not in most of the West. In fact, it is perfectly fine to discuss the Nazis, as long as you are deriding them as evil. Although it likely is a subject that is generally avoided in Germany. The real censorship occurs when dealing with the prior history of Germanic people. The term "Aryan" is entirely taboo in academics. You have to use "Indo-European", and even then it is only acceptable in the context of linguistics. Their role in the greater historical picture has been downplayed or misattributed, if not completely ignored, when they obviously had nothing to do with the Nazis.

[@hansreiner1637]

It also depends on their views with the Nazis, like here in my country, there's a scene in the Indiana Jones movie where he met Hitler during the Nazi parade, the scene was cut. But I can't really tell if we really hate them or not, we're more likely not know what Nazi is, I agree about how evil they are. But I think that censoring it wasn't really a good idea, it's part of the history and should not be forgotten

[@arcticchod5370]

@@Shin_Lona "In fact, it is perfectly fine to discuss the Nazis, as long as you are deriding them as evil." That's censorship... or at least, a strike against freedom of speech.

[@michaelmckinnon1591]

That's why Cancel Culture will doom the world to repeating the Holocaust at some point

[@skepticmonkey6923]

@@michaelmckinnon1591Oh fuck off, you're talking about cancel culture like it actually has impact on anything, "A celebrity got criticized for making a shit joke so now the holocaust will repeat, slippery slope!" And its not like the west has sat on its ass and watched genocide happen multiple times since the end of WW2: Rwanda, Cambodia, Indonesia etc. Truth is nations will only step in to stop against humanity if its profitable for them, the next holocaust will happen when no one cares about the victims, not because the people doing the genocide forget what a swastika is.

[@melancholickrow6099]

I currently go to an art school, and as i am interested in cartoons and illustration,words like shape theory and colour theory are always in my mind. Everyone feels strong in a simple leather jacket,maybe some cowboy boots or a nice belt,becouse they give you a "sharper" look. The uniforms are tight and proper,the colours elegant and threathening,i couldn't imagine seeing hundereds of people on the street dressed like that. And the fact that we today get kind of uncomfortable or scared even looking at them,means the creators of the uniforms did their job. Mind blowing to think about it.