MovieChat Forums > Im Labyrinth des Schweigens (2014) Discussion > Screwed up the uniforms!

Screwed up the uniforms!

posted 9 years ago by popeyesucks
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So,

-A US Army Engineer Major somehow has a CIB (limited to MOS 11B)

-Said US Army Engineer has hair down to his ass, when even the German civilians have high-and-tights

-Said US Army Engineer is running a documents center instead of building a bridge/minefield/tank trap

-Said US Army Engineer Major has his gold leafs smack dab in the middle of his shoulder straps and not at the outmost edges where they should be by regulations

-Said US Army Engineer Major has a picture of President Eisenhower in his office--years after the capture of Eichmann

-US Army REMFs and REMFettes are walking inside wearing their covers instead of having them tucked under their shoulder straps.

I am only happy they did not show scenes from Auschwitz. The way they did the US uniforms, they would probably have all the Auschwitz SS wearing pre-1938 black uniforms with bright red-white-black armbands.

Is uniform accuracy really that difficult a trick for producers? This movie is as bad as The Book Thief and The Woman In Gold when it comes to the uniforms. By contrast, about the only uniform discrepancy in Der Untergang is that they look too clean and far too many soldiers have Stg-44's.

Benoit killed 2x as many w/o a gun than Belcher did with one/S&W fighting climate change since 1852

[–] bruce-129 9 years ago

Why do you think it matters ?

[–] popeyesucks 9 years ago

It matters because this film purports to be historically accurate and not 100% fiction a la Love Camp 7 and Gestapo's Last Orgy.

Benoit killed 2x as many w/o a gun than Belcher did with one/S&W fighting climate change since 1852

[–] BlackOfJuly 8 years ago

I am very grateful for people like you to point this out; I'm very interested in 20th century history, WWI and WWII in particular, but as my mind for names isn't very good, I have to go back again and again to get the names straight and to hear old facts and learn some new ones.
Unfortunately I can't pay too much heed on things like rank decorations on uniforms, tank specifics etc. Therefore I'm glad that there are buffs like popeyesucks who point out these tiny, significant details.

You are an ant in the afterbirth.

[–] chrissso 7 years ago

SO WHAT! Is that what is important about this film? The uniforms that the actors wore or might it be the whole remarkable story of Germany coming to terms with the Holocaust? Look I appreciate the fact that you and your ilk have an enhanced sense history and accuracy when it comes to uniforms ... museums need folk like you ... but often you guys let this get in the way of the bigger picture.

The fact that this film had minor inaccuracies with the uniforms does nothing to change my interpretation of the film ... what so ever! This is a HUGE story here!