Why German Panzer Troops wear Pink

[@JDC1202]

In the German Army there is a saying that the Panzertroops Weapon colour is pink, because they were the first ones to choose a colour :)

[@RoninTF2011]

ok ok...I delete my comment for redundancy

[@samking7213]

😂 I must remember that one.

[@westphalianstallion4293]

@@RoninTF2011 I checked to not do the same mistake.

[@grandloser28]

As Marderköttel (Panzergrenadier) i can confim it is 1000% true

[@westphalianstallion4293]

@@grandloser28 neither man nor animal! xD luck below comrade! xD damn translating the phrases is always fun.

[@Nebelung13]

Dude... black panzer uniforms with pink pipping are so gucci. Black+pink is highly underrated.

[@alexion2001]

BLACKPINK IN YOUR AREYUH...has a whole new meaning

[@johnn8223]

Worked great for Bret Hart.

[@WreckingCrew666]

Actually Hugo BOSS ;-)

[@archmagosdominusbelisarius8836]

​@@WreckingCrew666thats a misconception..

[@ytty5183]

Very 80s 🤩

[@josephkavanagh7665]

Because they're fabulous.

[@maxhill9254]

LOL 🤣

[@spacewurm]

😂

[@h.a.9880]

When you've got to burn down a village at 5 but look fashionable at a gala at 8.

[@bugler75]

😂

[@spacewurm]

When those panzer troops are on leave they do fabulous interior decorating.

[@sthrich635]

"What branch color do you want?" Panzertruppe: "Pink would do" "That's cute, sure and what uniform design do you like?" Panzertruppe: "Pitch black uniform with death skull symbol please."

[@thelvadam2884]

peak combo

[@ThuHtut]

Perfect

[@V.B.Squire]

"bend over"

[@apollomars1678]

no death skulls, this was for the edge lords in the SD for feeling "special" except the hussars...

[@Brecconable]

@@apollomars1678 Panzertruppe wore the totenkopf on the collars.

[@deathgripskaraoke9351]

>Pink Panzers GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[@colbypupgaming1962]

To-do to-do to-do-to-do-to-do-to-do to-doooo dodododo

[@dogcitycanary]

​@@colbypupgaming1962to-do to-do to-do to-do to-do to-do to-do to-dOOOOOOOOOOO

[@capquirk3332]

Was looking for this comment

[@Kurzker]

OH GOD THE ROT IT HURTS

[@tragictragedy6212]

HOYL FCKUING SHIT IS THAT A MOHTRFU Dies

[@stanjuice]

Yes, we’re fashionable like that💅🏻

[@MadisonSquareGardendidJFK]

Why is little AdoIf in NATO ohh never mind ill ask PrinceHarry Swastikazzz

[@otneyat]

i'm jealous

[@NickScribe3]

​@@MadisonSquareGardendidJFK What

[@justicartiberius8782]

@@MadisonSquareGardendidJFK Did you have a stroke or what was that?

[@MadisonSquareGardendidJFK]

@@justicartiberius8782 its called beating KZbin's anti german uk algorithm filter. Never mind just go back to bed

[@ferb8328]

An interesting bit of information for you: German cavalier tradition is likely to make a comeback with the "Mittlere Kräfte". The "Panzerbrigade 21 'Lipperland'" wants to be renamed into the "Kavallerie-Brigade 'Lipperland'". They will be the first brigade of the "Mittlere Kräfte".

[@tacitus7698]

Makes me hope the Totenkopfhusaren or Schwarze Reiter will make a comeback :D Considering the history of the Black Riders though, "Pappergers Schwarze Reiter" would be a great name for a Rheinmetall PMC.... just in case we need plausible deniability for some minor tomfoolery....

[@LupusAries]

Hmm 21 and Panzer where have I heard that before......😉😏 Made from the 5th Light Division....

[@juliancate7089]

You know what else would be interesting? If the German army trained and equipped itself to actually fight. Yeah, that would be interesting. They could call themselves whatever they liked, as long as they could fight.

[@terrified057t4]

@@juliancate7089 Glossing over the entire history of Germany since WWII teaching themselves that militarism and nationalism were the leading causes of the Nazis rise to power and WWII....

[@LupusAries]

@@juliancate7089 The problem with that is the Babyboomers and the politicians sucking up to them for power. They are deathly afraid of that, because they think it would make them into "those Germans".... ....meanwhile they are all fine and dandy in behaving like "those Germans" when it comes to dissenters and those unwilling to go through with the experimental gene therapy during the last few years. All the silencing and excommunicating from society that "those Germans" did before they really had the necessary power to do more. Most German Politicians have no idea how a war is fought, especially the greens, there it was cool for the longest time to know nothing of war and be anti-war. And they are now the biggest warmongers, which is a darkly ironic thing, those that know the least banging on about fighting to the end, in Ukraine of Course.

[@downunderrob]

Why Pink? Because they're secure in their Manhood.

[@zeezee15]

Hear! Hear! Real man wear pink!

[@palmsa4363]

Based

[@ArianeQube]

dafuq :))

[@kalathesergal1754]

Fun Fact (in Germany - i dont know if somewhere else too) until the 1940s men used exclusively the color Red that stands for blood and Womans used Blue that stands for beauty, kids got the same but because they where kids they used a lighter version so boys got light red/pink thats also known as "little red" and girls got sky blue - because 1940s sailors worn blue uniforms and where seen as masculin the colors slowly swaped why we today see pink more as a girly color. So in fact the Tank troops are not only secure in their Manhood but drip pure masculinity

[@m.b.9688]

There are at least 10 Storys to it, that i can recall why pink

[@-davorite-]

I was hoping for the Pink Panther theme in the intro

[@colbypupgaming1962]

Yes. With that being teased in the thumbnail, I was highly disappointed

[@nikniknikccc2275]

Pink Panzer Theme

[@CroxlD]

Missed oppotunity

[@Somewhat-Evil]

I was too, but a copy-right claim would have demonetized all his hard work. 😥

[@hedgehog3180]

The pink represents the Eurovision songs that blast on repeat inside every Leopard 2 to inspire the crew.

[@robderich8533]

I would have thought that the most appropriate music to play in a tank would be techno.

[@h.a.9880]

@@robderich8533 Well, that or Preußens Gloria.

[@Brecconable]

Kernkrafte, Klaus Dolginger or Tangerine Dream would get my vote.

[@crashniels]

​@@Brecconable or vendetta

[@SmileyXY]

Imagine your tank gets destroyed by a Leo2 and the last thing you hear as the Leo drives past your burning wreckage is Everytime we touch by Electric Callboy blaring inside of it.

[@nanosuit100]

German Army Soldier here: The reason it is pink is known in the whole german army. In napoleonic times the saddle of our cavalry was red. In the sun and rain aswell as over time getting worn out the saddle turned pink. So veteran cavalary soldiers had pink saddles. This translated later to the Panzertruppen which understood itself as the predecessor of the horse cavalary

[@BattleOrder]

That sounds more like one of those myths every army has to explain things for which there is no satisfying answer. Horse cavalry still existed when the motor transport troops (a logistics branch) were assigned pink in 1919/20 and cavalry got golden yellow

[@madcat4633]

Nope. German Panzers didnt see themselves as successors to cavalry. Cav had been their rivals (funding, ressources, etc.) At Munster we were told that pink was simply the last color not in use (as said in the video).

[@fridrekr7510]

@@madcat4633 It’s true that Panzer originated as separate from cavalry, and that they would coexist with different traditions for some time. But Panzer very obviously adopted several old cavalry customs, like the skull (the Panzer skull is literally the exact same emblem that the Prussian Leib Husaren Regiment wore into WW1, which went back to the 19th century. There was even a Wehrmacht unit thay kept this tradition and wore the same skull on their caps that the tankers wore on their collars) and you can read about many tankers singing cavalry songs in the memoirs.

[@madcat4633]

@@fridrekr7510 You are right about this. Further more, there is a large painting (iirc) inside one of the main buildings at Munster (armored troops school) which kinda depicts a lineage of dragoons, husars and cuirassiers to modern panzer, panzergrenadiers and armored recon. But this was painted somewhere in the last 50 years I guess. My bet would be that this "lineage" was enhanced/made up in the post war Bundeswehr.

[@fridrekr7510]

@@madcat4633 It’s very cool that they considered how the different old types of cavalry transformed into modern armoured unit types (especially when both armoured infantry and recon are part of the German armoured branch as a whole). My guess is that tanks were initially considered as a distinct new weapon, but over time when horse cavalry became less and less relevant, this was changed into armour carrying the cavalry traditions since those were older and more well established than the few decades of distinct tanker traditions parallel to cavalry in the interwar period. The same trend is seen both in the British and American armoured forces, which also started as a new distinct lineage but gradually transformed into a mix of cavalry and tanker traditions.

[@AliasA1]

If you want to save 3 minutes, the answer is that we don't know. (But there's a lot of interesting background info, so it's worth watching anyway)

[@erebostd]

It's because horse saddlecloths were red, and over time the wore down to pink. That traditional color if experienced cavalry stayed.

[@martinfiedler4317]

@@erebostd Only that the German armored branch has no cavalry connection...

[@PWe763]

They keep the rumor, that is because Tanks are strong like former artillery and Quick like Former infantry. They had the colours red and White. So it became pink.

[@2nolhta]

@@martinfiedler4317 I doubt that.

[@martinfiedler4317]

@@2nolhta Your doubt doesn't change the fact. The Panzertruppe developed out of the Kraftfahrtruppe - the motorized logistics branch. That's also where the pink weapon color comes from.

[@Stella-gm7bo]

Fun fact, back in the day, pink was seen as a masculine color while light blue was the feminine one. It just shows how volatile our concept of a color associated with gender is.

[@davidbrennan660]

Light blue certainly.

[@josephahner3031]

Light blue or baby blue. Not regular or dark blue

[@fridrekr7510]

It’s kind of funny when you consider that tanks used pink while medical used light blue. In that way the old masculine and feminine associations match the branch colours.

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

That’s not true. Red was the color for men since it was a symbol of masculinity and aggressiveness while blue was the feminine color. That all changed when blue became the official color of the Navy and it was associated with men.

[@animeXcaso]

source???

[@erikengholm6466]

Pink was the royal color for Princes and Blue was for females up until the 1930's. So might look weird now but then it would have signified choosing quite a esteemed color then.

[@ad_astra5]

Pink is a nice color to be fair, especially if it’s that powdery-near purple tinted pink

[@pyeitme508]

yo pink 🩷. Speaking of pink reminds me of the SAS Landrovers in pink color nicknamed Pink Panthers😂

[@obelic71]

the perfect color for night operations in the desert

[@hedgehog3180]

We might also literally get a pink panther since the prototype tank Rheinmetall has been parading around is calles the KF51 Panther.

[@criticalalfredo707]

those pink panthers becoming inspiration for Omani special forces beret (yes, they wore pink beret)

[@pyeitme508]

​@@hedgehog3180totally 😂

[@Goc4ever]

This was very interesting, well done Battle Order. I never knew that the German tankers wore pink and it has to be said, they still have style. I can't unhear the Pink Panther theme in the background.

[@plasmadrone3123]

nice background music choice!! So nostalgic with "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" / "Medal of Honor: Vanguard" main theme :> :>

[@monfort537]

I served in tank reconnaissance with gold as my weapon color. I once heard that the story behind our color was related to the large number of nobles who served in mounted reconnaissance (basically the last branch to use horses for combat missions) during World War I. During World War II, these units were then converted into the first tank reconnaissance units.

[@JMark-zk5pj]

Panzer Aufkl. used to be pink early in the war.

[@monfort537]

The color was changed before the war in 1938 from pink to gold, in 1941 it became copper brown, in 1943 pink again and in 1944 it was changed back to gold for good. Those changes were not always consequent so by 1943 at least they had 3 different colors at the same time.

[@lootsoldat8283]

@@JMark-zk5pj Wrong

[@martinfiedler4317]

@@JMark-zk5pj That's news to me. The Panzer Aufklärer of the Wehrmacht were originally part of the Aufklärungs-Abteilungen of the Divisions. These consisted tzpically of one company of traditional cavalry, one company of bicycle troops and one company with armored reconnaisance vehicles. As a whole, this detachment belonged to the cavalry and wore the golden-red color of that branch.

[@anon2034]

4:26 This is why you don't jump out of tanks, kids.

[@andresmartinezramos7513]

Your knees will thank you, and your face as well

[@_--Reaper--_]

What should we do then? Crawl out?

[@anon2034]

@@_--Reaper--_ Sit down first and then step on the ground.

[@_--Reaper--_]

@@anon2034 Pfft, ain't nobody got time for that. Da hell do you think this is?

[@wacojones8062]

Thanks!

[@engie3953]

I swear i thought i was gonna see a whole ass leopard painted queen style💅

[@Custer0706]

As somebody who wore Pink on his shoulders for several years of active and reserve duty: Thanks for this video and flawless explanations.

[@lootsoldat8283]

One thing worth mentioning is that yellow was worn by tank crews who were part of the Panzer Reconnaissance units, the 24th is the only unit that is mostly yellow everywhere because they were a cavalry division before, the unit even retained special cavalry ranks

[@chaorazul_4477]

nice that someone mentions this... i was just too lazy to write that comment :D

[@RalfJosefFries]

German here. In the mid 80´s some people in the grman military administration had the great idea that german soldiers of the Bundeswehr should when wearing their parade-uniforms wear baretts in the colour of their weapon-branch. and then, the first of this baretts made from coloured felt arrived.... Direct after the first unboxing, the officers of the radio- and communication-services - weapon colour yellow - , the officers of the tank troops - weapon colour pink - and the officers of the military police - weapons colour orange - rotted together and startet the inofficially so called barrett-mutiny... they were not happy with their yellow, pink or orange hat´s and simply refused to wear them, not even some few days for the trial-period... in the end the administration stepped back with their plans... officially the reason was, that the new "colour-barretts" needed to much cleaning.... in the end the hole idea was considered stupid and the not-succesfull introduction of this barretts was cancelled, the trial-phase stopped, and the hole story was covered up and all new barretts destroyed....

[@Riceball01]

Berets, not barrets.

[@Brecconable]

@@Riceball01 Barret means beret in German. English is not his first language.

[@ZvZd]

This might be true but the part about the Military Police isn't. They have worn orange berets since 1980 and still do to this day, they have no issues with them.

[@martinfiedler4317]

@@ZvZd No, the German Militarz police wears *red* berets ("korallenrot") like manz support troops. There are no orange berets in the Bundeswehr. But it"s a rather bright red, so I understand the mixup.

[@ZvZd]

@@martinfiedler4317 Ah ok, that's my bad. Thanks for the correction :)

[@brynertodd]

Im just imagining a video of panzers doing a bunch of shenanigans and sneaking around on the battlefield now with the pink panther tune playing over it all.

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

"All the colours you have chosen are taken" "Oh, what do you have left?"

[@volrathsstronghold]

1) According to combined arms warfare ("Gefecht der verbundenen Waffen") (all) different weapons/forces shall work together. Especially Panzertruppe and Panzergranadiertruppe because they complement each other. 2) Green was/is the color of the Panzergrenadiertruppe. 3) Pink is the complementary color of green. 4) ... 5) Profit?

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

The colors of the Greek cavalry was dark green and dark purple and was carried over to modern day tank units Note that when we adopt them we had a Bavarian king ( Otto I) it must be some kind of tradition behind it

[@wiesel.graphics]

When I was doing my basic military service in the Bundeswehr, someone once told me that the pink color comes from the saddle pads of the cavalry. These were probably red at the beginning, but due to the sunlight, when you were often in the field, they faded at some point and turned pink. This was also how you could tell whether a cavalryman was experienced or not, because they had a faded pink saddle pad. This was then adopted by the armored troops. I can't say whether that's true, but it's certainly a nice story ;)

[@SyN237]

In the film Valkyrie (2008), when Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) enters the Berghof, you can see the weapon color pink on his uniform.

[@marcromain64]

This is particularly interesting because Stauffenberg was actually a cavalryman at a time when the importance of cavalry units was already dwindling. The tank units were therefore explicitly seen as a mechanized continuation of (heavy) cavalry.

[@Lakin3]

Was on Leopard2 myself having that pink. We were standing above that "hihihihi pink", we had the Leopard2 and knew of our manlyhood.

[@pretzelchannel1]

Using light pink honestly goes so hard, and it's even better because I love tanks, and my favourite colour is pastel pink so it's perfect for me.

[@unitedlunch1609]

That booing Mark bit is funny AF 😂

[@dunklerwanderer3681]

Pink was the flag color of the Prussian Skull-Hussars since 1745 under Joachim von Zieten. I suspect that the choice of the color pink was made in reference to this elite unit.

[@13thravenpurple94]

Excellent video 👍 Thank you 💜

[@Shrike58]

All we need now is for someone to do a mash-up of the "Pink Panther" theme and the "Panzerlied."

[@HereticalKitsune]

Been a while since I last saw German tank troops. Like 17 years when I went on a seminar with them. They told me the black color of the beret was based on artillery and how sooty those were, and the pink was just "old tradition". Fun to hear why my branch, airborne logistics, got their blue from. The bordeaux beret comes, according to myth across various nations, from one paratrooper who landed, had a head wound and just put a bandage on. By the end of the fight the bandages were soaked in blood, but the soldier still heroic, and that inspired the dark red eventually as a color for elites.

[@brichess8227]

I just found it kind of funny that you were talking about the germans having famous black uniforms and the ai coloring colors the uniforms blue

[@bond0815]

To be fair, the notion that pink is a "girly" colour is a rather new historic concept (mostly post WW2 I believe). Pink used to be a common military color, e.g. used in the Prussian army. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preu%C3%9Fische_Armee#/media/Datei:Prussian_Fusiliers.jpg

[@BattleOrder]

I mostly think it’s novel because it represents their tank corps being descendent from a logistics branch, which is somewhat rare. In other countries it’s usually cavalry, artillery or even infantry. Although many people will obviously click because they think it’s girly lol

[@meanmanturbo]

@@BattleOrder In Sweden the armor formation came out of the infantry. What I think is most wierd in Sweden is that the cavalry units got turned into light infantry jäger/ranger units. Wgich I guess makes sort of sense since one of cavalrys jobs was recon I guess.

[@BattleOrder]

@ Not uncommon for “tanks” to have officially been owned by the infantry before WW2. The US and France did this, although the cavalry basically had tanks by different names as well

[@SawThumbz]

At last a sensible accurate comment, totally ASD!

[@Kenionatus]

​@@meanmanturboMaybe the cavalry also had experience in operating independently of logistics and behind enemy lines or in the far flank. (I imagine they were probably used to quickly exploit gaps after breakthroughs, which would have left them cut off from support and sustainment for a while.)

[@SRDPS2]

My favorite color : Main Rose, Sky, Purple, Red and decorated gold 3:08 probably a self-explanation of why I like to see cannon and mobile machine more than the rest of the branch XD

[@benjaminoette]

I received my basic training during my military service in the German army in a tank unit. There we were told that the weapon color pink for the tank troops was a mixture of the weapon colors of the artillery (red) and the infantry (white). Tactically, the tank troops were a mixture of infantry and artillery.

[@MyLateralThawts]

That was always my assumption as well. I’m an ex Leopard gunner in the Canadian armoured corps and that’s what I explained to my comrades back in the day when the subject came up. Interestingly, we came across a lone picture of a Panzersoldat from WW 2 who had candy stripe piping in red and white. I thought that would have been a better choice, but maybe that’s just my opinion.

[@fridrekr7510]

@@MyLateralThawts Are you sure it wasn’t black and white stripes? Because that would’ve been armoured engineers. That’s the only official striped corps colour, because the traditional black engineer colour wouldn’t be visible on the black Panzer uniforms.

[@martinfiedler4317]

That's a myth purported in the Bundeswehr. Similar myth purported in my former branch - which wore golden-yellow 😉: The song, "Der Golene Reiter" from Joachim Witt describes the Theodor-Körner-Kaserne in Lüneburg. Many branches have this kind of catchy legends...

[@Montoro23-s8i]

Pretty simple assigned branch colors were: White: Infantry Red: Artillery Blue: Supply troops (transport and logistics) Green: Light infantry (Jäger units) Yellow: Cavalry (later reconnaissance units) Black: Engineers (Pioneers) Violet: Military chaplains Golden yellow: Signals troops Sky blue: Air force (Luftwaffe) Possible colors that were theoretically also available: Orange: Unused, but could have been a distinctive choice. Turquoise: Rarely seen in military contexts at the time and therefore unused. Bright pink: A more vibrant version of pink, but likely deemed too unconventional. Brown: Not specifically assigned, possibly because it blended too much with uniform colors. Dark gray: Too similar to the uniform and thus unsuitable.

[@RunesHytte]

A german soldier never gets cold. He just gets so angry at the weather that he starts to shake

[@bulldowozer5858]

And the closer you get to them, the more clearly you can hear the saxophone

[@craigtimoney]

I was stood in my local supermarket wondering why a bundeswehr solider had bands on her uniform epilets last week. She had two different coloured bands, so she must be a support branch attached to a tank battalion in the nearby augustdorf.

[@uhohwhy]

cuz they love being in close compartments with the boiz

[@leonardobarbosa7825]

This is one of those videos that could be summed up in one sentence ("It was probably because it was the last distinctive color available"), but it's worth watching for the other information that compliments the dry answer.

[@GenghisVern]

Boardgame titled Battle of the Bulge from Avalon Hill had pink panzers. There was an article or cardboard replacement set of some kind in their magazine, "The General" referencing Pink Panzer Syndrome" (as I recall)

[@doubleT84]

I was taught that Pink ribbons were just the price for the black beret, the coolest of all the berets. Though there were rumors about armored engineers (black weapon color, usually red beret (emergency off button)).

[@terruwuism]

Red was associated with prestigious cavalry, units like the 1. Garde-Ulanen-Regiment and also the garde du corps had notably red elements in their saddles or uniforms. The red dye that was used would bleach out over time and the soldiers which were most experienced would have uniforms or saddles etc. that had faded red to pink. Thusly a pink cavalryman was an experienced veteran. I dont know if that is correct but it was what I was told.

[@paulwee1924dus]

Lt. Gruber in Allo Allo had pink piping.

[@WRX3]

Could it be related to Bavarian units which used to have pink details in their uniform? (Napoleonic wars but also later) Maybe most of the vehicles were produced there at fhe start?

[@TK421-53]

I love the score you are playing on the background, MoH, right?

[@disneysrecessextra1634]

1:07 The black beret with pink collar and shoulders looks really good, also with the yellow that the reconnaissance troops use, the bundeswehr should axe the berets for the rest of the military tho.

[@marcygambino1975]

The "Litze"... the coloured stripe on the shoulder of the combat Uniform... belongs to the Shoulderpiece like the Ranking Symbol and is therefore always worn, not just sometimes. And by every german Soldier not only the "Panzerbacken"... in their respective Colour of course. Green for Grenadiers, Red for Artillery, Blue for Logistics & Field Medics, Yellow for Radio, Black for Pioneers and so on

[@ProtoNeoVintage]

Because, as Robin Williams said, "Darling if you are going to war make a statement. If you are going to fight, CLASH!"

[@Alex_Alex01741]

4:52 The skull was used by the Stug drivers which are seperated in Artillery and Tank troops because both had Stugs but different weapon colours

[@stephenwills980]

i think you should do a video on fiji's military, that would be a unique twist

[@salemderkater]

I heared another story from a commerade once: „A group of german tanks was surrounded and cut off. The commanding officer ordered his men to wash their tanks with Diesel, to make them look clean for their last glorious battle. The Diesel left a pink shimmer on the tanks. After the battle was fought and to their surprise won, the pink color was seen as a lucky charm and became the official „Waffenfarbe“ of the tanktroops.“ Maybe just a tale, but a nice one. 😊

[@tragictragedy6212]

Zesty aah Panzertruppe💀💀

[@archmagosdominusbelisarius8836]

Brainrot comment

[@DarquosLeblack]

You know what they say about the warrior's bond

[@fnansjy456]

Panzerköniginnen slay 👑💖 💅💅✨✨✨

[@feurigessiegelstuck233]

yaas queen slaaay 💀

[@GregoryHawkins-d2p]

Heil said Lyle to Kyle as they floated down the Nile for a while for a mile while standing on a deck of tile, & tuned a radio dial while shitting a pile.

[@jamesscalzo3033]

Loved the video @BattleOrder! Can't wait for the next video man! Not gonna lie, but I was kinda expecting a Pink Panther Reference considering the Thumbnail image had a Plastic Pink (Almost Magenta) Leopard 2A5 (or 2A6, 2A7 or 2A7+) in it. Interesting little fact about colors for Guys and Girls. Colors like Red would be well liked by Guys and Blue by Girls. It wasn't until after the HIV/AIDS Epidemic of the 1980's and the Successive Rise of what we now know as the LGBT-Q+ Community that we started seeing Red, Pink and Purple deemed to be for the Girls and Blue and Green for the Guys. So in today's Societal Standards, if you were to tell someone that your Favorite color was say Red (Like Me), You would be viewed as someone who's LGBT-Q+. Like I said, I like Red just because it stuck out more to me than Yellow, but I'm as Straight as you can get in the Modern Day. Let me know what you think about this and I'll catch you in your next video man!

[@DH.2016]

There were at least two infantry regiments in the Prussian Army of the 18th century which had pink facing colours (Infantry Regiments 18 and 40) - very striking against their dark blue coats.

[@saturnv2419]

This could be the awkward handshake meme between German Panzer Troops and RAF desert fighter pilots.

[@JoshuaNorthall]

Love the MOH Vanguard music, what a blast from the past lol

[@donovanchau3483]

I got a repro Stug crew panzerwrap for cheap on eBay, I initially thought it was off color until I looked into it more.

[@BattleOrder]

Stug crew waffenfarbe should probably be red

[@MysteryDetektiv]

another information about colors: We use the word "Pink" and "Rosa" differently: Pink refers to very strongly pigmented colors. Rosa, on the other hand, is always more or less tinted with white.

[@desannful]

imagine the last think you see in your life after you got surpised on the battlefield... is pink

[@bogdany.4505]

Are they missing textures

[@b212hp]

In the U.S. Army, we figured the Warrant Officer Corps wasn't invited to the meeting when they were handing out branch colors. That's why we wound up with brown.

[@williamcoleman8731]

🎶Pink Panzer Club, I'm gonna keep on dancing at the Pink Panzer Club🎶

[@phillbosque2183]

You incorrectly stated that the Cavalry Branch in the US Army in non-existent, but rather the horse riding branch is. It's now split into Air Cavalry and Armored Cavalry. The US Armor Branch has two colors, Yellow (because of it's roots from the Cavalry) and Green, usually depicted running diagonally to each other.

[@BattleOrder]

I didn't mean it was non-existent, I meant it was abolished as a branch, which it was about 70 years ago. By law cavalry is not a branch. It does exist as a regimental affiliation though with all their special guidons and hats and stuff, and the term has been used on-and-off historically to refer to units focused on reconnaissance & security mission. Otherwise though it's been a subset of proper branches like Armor. Whereas before the Armored Force was created as a quasi-branch during WWII (that eventually took Cavalry's place as a proper branch), Cavalry was one of the top-dog maneuver branches equal to infantry. The Cavalry branch basically shot itself in the foot by resisting mechanization and indulging in inter-branch rivalries in the 1920/30s, which meant when the Army accelerated the adoption of an combined arms force with cross-branch integration after the German invasion of France it allowed for an independent force separate from the Cavalry to do the job (what would become today's Armor Branch). Cavalry was largely reduced to recon units (as opposed to the more prestigious maneuver mission they used to have) and leg infantry divisions that were basically de-horsed cavalry divisions. Post-war lost its "branch" status because of how much their role was reduced, and the Army basically applies cavalry traditions wherever it suits regardless of function.

[@rakr9334]

The old color codes are still in use as one of the few traditions, which weren't made unfeasable by WW2 germany. The infantry white was given up, because all infantry are 'Jäger' (including the Panzergrenadiere, which are infantristic, but not infantry). The military music grabbed white. The WW1 'new stuff'-light gray was given to army aviation. Obviously being army and up in the air still makes you kinda 'new and fancy'. The logistics moved on to medium blue (not to be confused with medics, which have dark blue). The cavalry tradition is an odd one. In germany the recons have this 'gold', taking over this specific role of cavalry. The recons however were a 2008 conglomerate of armored recons (with the silent Luchs tank), the Feldnachrichtentruppe (kinda personell recon) and the elite long range recons (which had the green infantristic coulor for a few years). All having golden laces. In other countries the army aviators took the 'fast support everywhere' capabilites and see themselves as the heirs of cavalry. Other use the 'smash'-effect and say armored troops are the real heirs. Lesson learned: Everyone wants to be the cool cavalry. Funny enough, the signals also partly understand themselves and their task as in line of the cavalry heritage. They have yellow (not gold). Their yellow lace ('Litze') is usually called Pisslitze.

[@wdygoaphagfy]

The shoulder straps are called EPAULETTES.

[@BattleOrder]

Epaulettes are much more fancy things in this context. They're the things with all the bullion fringe for certain officers. Shoulder straps is the term used for the plain cloth that German enlisted men wore.

[@Boni-i1l]

@@BattleOrder I found the term as "shoulder boards" in many English military books. To understand what I am writing now you need to know that the NVA (East-German army) was a conscript army with 18 months compulsory service period for each male as their minimum regular service. There was always one specific day in spring and in autumn for drafting and discharging each year. According to the EK system, the unofficial hierarchy among the rank and file, only referring to the actual half-year (out of the three) of their current service status for soldiers and privates. The ranking went as: 1st half year of service "Glatter" (German plural "die Glatten") 2nd half year "Vize" 3rd (last) half year "EK" ("Entlassungskandidat" translating roughly into "candidate for discharge"). What does has to do with the shoulder boards? Those shoulder boards were when new quite stiff (like cardboard) and therefore board-like. Which is why the new recruits during their first half-year of service were called "die Glatten" (the flat or smooth or straight ones) because their new shoulder boards were (still) so flat and straight. Later these board crumbled a bit when the uniforms were used frequently and therefore after 6 months (when the next recruits entered the barracks) they were now unofficially "promoted" to "Vize" (something like "deputy to the "EK") and the now new arrivals became "die Glatten". Of course this "system" was tight in the hands of the "EK"s forcing the new recruits into doing all the unwanted labour and barrack scores like fetching food, cleaning the room and toilets etc. The officers had a mixed stand on it, since this system was present in ANY unit but was handled and exercised differently depending on the unit. Officers and NGOs often excepted this system as long as it was not executed too excessive and remained rather a rough riding fun. Not all tank units in the NVA were having pink shoulder boards, only the pure tanker regiments had them. I was a T-55 tank commander in an infantry regiment (MSR28 Rostock) in 1983-1986, which had one tank battalion embedded according to their structure. Since the infantry regiments had their arms code in white, we too wore white shoulder boards. But we had and extra sticker on the left lower arm indicating a white tank. Of course we preferred this since civilians could "read" the symbol but had no idea of the colour codes within the NVA. On the NVA field uniforms (Ein-Strich-Kein-Strich) the shoulder boards had no colour coding at all. Those boards remained in camouflaged colouring of greyish brown and beige. Peace! from Dresden / Germany

[@ottovonbasedmarck]

The 24. Panzer wore gold because they were original a Cavalry Division one of the few Cavalry divisions to become Panzer Divisions as well they still used some Cavalry ranks

[@slawomirkulinski]

During WWII Germans used small pink squares painted on the light blue background as camo on their tanks. From a distance it made tank look like a pile of rubble.

[@gmxj.m.5359]

I was taught that there was a cuirassier unit in Prussia that sometimes wore red leather on the saddle. If a rider lived long enough, the leather would fade in the sun and turn pink.

[@markhindmarsh2811]

Side note in WWII Geman tankers took off the Tottenkopf (Deaths head) badges if they were going to be captured. A black uniform with a skull and cross bones emblem were not the best things to be wearing if you fell into allied hands

[@manfredconnor3194]

"Hans? Are we the baddies or ... or are we .... Oh, nevermind." 😂😊

[@romainfr2981]

Nowdays, in France, we have cuirassiers who charge with mbts and dragoons who are in a special forces airborn regiment which specialize in collecting intelligence.

[@chrisb2942]

Back then it wasn't a color to look down at. Quite the opposite. In the Bundeswehr they teach their recruits that the pink comes from the bareback lining of cavalry officers. Tanks replaced the cavalry so they chose the color out of tradition. Reconnaisance tank troops have a yellow one instead.

[@TrangleC]

A more interesting question to me is why and whether they still refuse to wear helmets. I have seen pictures of people in German Leopard 2 tanks with helmets, but those could have been Dutch crews in German tanks. German tankers always liked to tell you: "If a tanker needs a helmet, he'll pick one up off the ground.", implying that there will be dead enemies lying around everywhere.

[@cyberfux]

That's only the Leo drivers AFAIR.

[@timhartherz5652]

Well, it the tank doesn't protect you, what is the helmet supposed to do? But then it's kinda awkward wearing headgear in a cramped tank.

[@Kosake86]

Another theory on the origin of the pink color would be the faded red of old saddles, another cavalry-derived origin story. The least likely explanation that I am aware of is that it was the piping on some Cavalry Guards regiment that somehow managed to pass it on to the new branch.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

In the Greek army the cavalry color ( tank units nowadays) is dark purple or as they called the " red of Amaranth" for some reason

[@leostark9379]

it goes further into the past. During the time of the knights, heavy cavalry/armored troops were marked with pink... this was then adopted for the armored troops, specifically tanks.

[@maxclickenhof1049]

Very informative.

[@LeutnantJoker]

Germany uses the cavalry color for the armored recon units, since they were closer to the later Cavalry jobs (Edit: Have to say used, since apparently they merged them with all recon units since I left)

[@tmytyson]

This bit is relevant in the 1980 film The Big Red One; the anonymous Sergeant recognizes his troops have been led into an ambush when the "dead" panzer troops scattered about are wearing white infantry pips instead of pink pips.

[@BattleOrder]

Lol I remember that scene

[@ittubac]

Love the medal of honor background music

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

Well... probably why Lt Grüber joined the Panzers in his 'Little Tank'... 😂

[@lordrhavin]

Pink: a mixture between red and magenta. Rosa: a mixture between red and white.

[@gal.m.8669]

Could you also make an explanatory video about the organizational structure of the Cyprus National Guard, please? It should be noted that it is also relatively small, and according to the videos it will probably be easy for you.😊

[@joenight9693]

To understand the significance of the colour one has to go back in time to the medieval times. Where Pink was the colour of kings. Not royalty but kings only. The colour chosen for that pupose. It tells everyone of the significance of the panzers and that they are the ones to decide battels. The same as the artillery is called the crown/queen of all weapons in germany.

[@ohraven4073]

Love your vids Amazingly informative. Can you also make video about Leopard2 prototypes?

[@p3d1gree39]

As far as I know the tradition lineage is that Tanks are viewed as the modern heavy cav therefore the pink as prussian curassier had red saddle blankets that would bleach with time, therefore become pink. The mechanized infantry or panzergrenadiere have a lineage to dragoons and the recce branch to light cavalry, the ulan and are therefore yellow coded. Till the ninetys mechanized infantey or panzergrenadiers were viewed as infantry, therefore they stuck with the "Jägergrün". The infantry it's self is distinguished by headgear. Airborne wirh a maroon baret, normal infantry with a green and only golden badge in the bundeswehr and mountain infantry with their bergmütze ( mountain ~cap~).

[@eddychong9477]

Don't say it.... *Some jazz cartoon music plays*

[@larsf.4756]

Yeah, I used to wear pink. My brother, who was a Panzergrenadier, was green with envy.

[@Muschelschubs3r]

Ah. The Blue Oyster Bar Service Personnel Piping 😁

[@philiphughes6214]

If I (a Brit) remember correctly, the coloured cord that went on the epaulette was called Waffen Gatung? (Spelling??) We/I worked with 7 panzer (cavalry reconnaissance) over a couple of years on Böasalager (spelling?), I wore a yellow one on my smock. Then I worked with Ferhnspäher (spelling) guys, not sure what colour they used. Sorry for the misspelling!

[@Custer0706]

Waffengattung, Boeselager, Fernspäher. You‘re welcome!

[@philiphughes6214]

@Custer0706 danke, ohne wortebuch is difficult, ha!

[@martinfiedler4317]

You must be quite a veteran. When I joined the Panzeraufklärer, the annual Boeselager-Wettkampf had just been discontinued. Looks like it was quite an impressive experience. (For which I envy you 😉)

[@philiphughes6214]

@martinfiedler4317 Thanks! I did it 1987 & 88, almost half a year of night navigations, swimming/river crossings (in January and February so cold), and assault courses etc, great comradship with 7 panzer guys. As I was so fit, that's why I did a selection for a UK fernspäher unit. I liked the Luchs & Fuchs (we had CVR(T).

[@ExtremelyAverageMan]

"On Wednesdays, we wear pink" -Panzer Troops probably