What awards did the Germans hide before surrendering to the Americans?

[@albertyap1197]

Another dangerous award for a German soldier was the anti-partisan badge.

[@sthrich635]

Actually most Allied soldiers, particularly those just arrived in Europe 1944, had little to no idea what those awards really meant, to them those were just shiny badges some eager soldiers might trade them as souvenirs for like a pack of cigars or something.

[@mikedunn7795]

Well,badges are somewhat easier to lose than tattoos.

[@mikedunn7795]

How did they remove the SS tattoo under their left arm before surrender?

[@missKushite]

I researched and saw that all of them didn't have the tattoo

[@gschmidt9594]

​@@missKushiteyour research is a bull shit

[@54blewis]

I noticed in one of the photos an officer of the Polizei division (possibly the 4th waffenSS division)a lesser known but equally brutal unit in its own right…

[@StuartAhrens-b4n]

Soldiers were awarded medals for being good at being a Soldier for your country 🇩🇪🤔🤔🤔

[@davidbumbera2864]

We had snipers too

[@Jerry-n3y6e]

Not in WW 2 we didn't! Not until Vietnam did we employ snipers!

[@davidbumbera2864]

@Jerry-n3y6e marines used snipers in the Pacific theater. They mainly used the m1903 Springfield rifle.

[@Jerry-n3y6e]

@davidbumbera2864 there were individual snipers, yes, but the U.S. military did not begin training a specific sniper group until Vietnam. Sorry there's too much info out there that says so!

[@davidbumbera2864]

@@Jerry-n3y6e wow! Can we spell semantics.. they acted as SNIPERS!. The m1903 was developed as a SNIPER RIFLE.

[@Jerry-n3y6e]

@davidbumbera2864 your statement of "we had snipers too" is in reference to the Nazis, who if, had to, desired to surrender to the Americans rather than the Russians, because Americans were more sympathetic and valued human life more than Russian soilders did! This video is a Testament to American human life values over those of Russians! The majority of Americans at the time between wars and while involved in WW2 believed that "snipers" were simple "Cold Blooded" killers, and this video states as such! That's why the Germans tore off their sniper patches so that those individual soldiers would not receive harsher treatment from the Americans and especially the Russians! Your statement saying we had snipers, too, belittles the higher American human life values than those of the Russians and the Nazis! Your statement is saying Americans were not on a higher moral ground than the Nazis and the Russians! When that is simply not true! So, the German Army had trained snipers, in most of their units deployed, and "sniping" was a tactic used by the Nazis in order to demoralize individual American soldiers from attempting to take a chance of getting around in a bombed out city! The Nazi snipers were "cold blooded killers"! Americans responded with their best rifle marksman to take out such killers! The actual M1903 Springfield was not designed or developed for use as a "sniper rifle"! But a variant, the M1903A4, and later those of "National Match rifles with the type "C" stocks that also incorporated the use of a pistol grip! So it's not true that Americans used snipers in the same way or manner as the cold-blooded Nazis did! Your statement is wrong, and so are You! Capich?

[@johngraham-kn8uf]

I don't know why American soldiers hated snipers they had snipets themselves. The army wanted snipers and couldn't find anyone to train them. They had to go to yhe British and Canadians

[@chrisf1163]

Nobody likes the other side's snipers.

[@bigjax-lf7jr]

SS death head badge

[@alrex8042]

Cuz they were nothing but cowards

[@chrisf1163]

Were American snipers cowards too?