I guess that they deleted the old list ---
Shall we start again ?
I believe someone posted #1 previously:
1.) If you speak English with a German accent, Germans will understand you, and then will even respond in the same manner !
2.) Speaking with a Russian accent may enable you to become a general in the German Army.
J'ai l'œil AMÉRICAIN !
3.) If you conduct an airdrop over Germany, the package always resembles a man.
share6) Even if an actor is really British they must speak with a Cockney accent because they're playing a British guy in an American show.
7) When Germans speak to each other alone they'll begin speaking in German but finish in English.
8) It's against the Geneva Convention to treat Prisoners as Prisoners.
9) The men in Barracks Two are the only men required to fall in for roll call so they can be counted.
10) Segregation somehow doesn't exist Nazi German POW camps even though the prisoners would have been segregated even before they were captured.
"TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER."-PHIL COULSON
3) While certain that a group of Allied prisoners was sabotaging many factories and other operations near Stalag 13, the Germans spent much effort trying to catch them red handed, and never just considered transferring the suspected prisoners--Hogan and the men in Hogan's barracks--to other camps.
4) Despite an almost constant presence of snow, no guards patrolling the woods outside camp ever noticed any suspicious footprints leading to a certain tree stump.
5) Despite the ability to have a surprise roll call anytime he wanted, for all those months, Klink never happened to have a roll call at a time when Hogan and most of his men were away from the camp. He only had them when one person was away and the others were able to cover for him.
There were a couple of times when more than one of them was missing, but they talked Schultz into not reporting it.
sharenothing funnier than ze fake German accent
share11. It was possible for German officers to be court-martialed, shot, and then sent to the Russian Front.
12. Electricity has a smell.
13. An avalanche can be caused by a sneeze.
14. A gonculator is a piece of equipment used on submarines.
in re: 14 the Gonculator, not to take this or any thread too seriously, but
Never underestimate the power of an "Emperor Has No Clothes" Gambit... a lot of people in a Bureaucracy can be easily Bluffed into pretending to know 'the true story' about the Random BS you just made up...
the short lived sitcom "Better Off Ted" had a wonderful episode 'Jabberwocky' that used the same Gambit about a R&D project
"MASH" had the season One episode "Tuttle" about a non-existent Captain Tuttle (invented by Hawkeye to shirk a trivial task, IIRC) and by the end, Margaret was in Love, Frank was eating breakfast with him, and the Orphanage received his death benefits...
16. Even though there was ample room in the tunnels below the barracks, most times there is an unauthorized crowd of Allied Prisoners, the Col. always takes risk in bringing them into the close quartered barracks where they chance getting arrested, as opposed to safely out of sight in the amply roomed tunnels.
That was probably an issue of ventilation not just for the comfort of the men but their very survival from a lack of oxygen.
share15. It was winter year round in Germany during WWII
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?Schultz knows nothing. ... nuTHING.
?30 days in the cooler is no big deal.
?Col. Hogan has the kavorka.
If Colonel Klink really believes that he has a perfect record of NO ESCAPES, then Common Core Math must have originated in Nazi Germany in the 1930's.
Luke Skywalker, your Mom was hawt! Darth Vader
No one has ever successfully escaped from Stalag 13. It is the toughest POW camp in all of Germany.
shareRumor has it that Col. Hogan AKA Bob Crane was a swinger in real life, so maybe...
?Col. Hogan has the kavorka.
Even if you are an inept German Army officer, you can be promoted all the way up to Colonel and be given a command, even if it is only a prisoner of war camp.
shareThough Carter is so inept as to leave a camera next to the fence, yet he can go outside, impersonate a German officer thoroughly intimidate the guards in some jailhouse or munitions factory, light and place smoke bombs and do it so efficiently the guards think it's a fire.
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