Prussian Grenadiers

Prussian infantry in the time of Frederick the Great on parade in Potsdam. A clip from the East German 1962 film "Minna von Barnhelm".

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• Potsdam
• Parade

[Melthornal]

@dividednation44 In the 17th and 18th centuries battles were won by morale and bravery, not technology. Whichever general still had guys standing around the battle field was the winner. It wasn't really about killing of proving supremacy. Which is why the best trained armies won, and why the grenadiers existed in the first place. Grenadiers were useful because they thought they were the best of the best. It is a psychological game. Morale. Hence the silly hats and uniforms.

[Teufelsnachbar667]

@oxis77gas Your either stupid or have no clue about history.

[AsianDudeX01]

Grenadiers are the most badass kind of soldiers back in the 17-1800s these guys have to be huge! Big and strong enough to chuck a bomb very far away. Each nation hack then has their own version of a grenadier. The British have the one with those puffy hats, the Prussian as u can see have those cone like hats as well as the French. American grenadiers have a more of a band around their heads. Bottome line is that they are the bad ass of the day.

[TheSnow77]

@buenosdiers Die Deutschen im 3.Reich haben ja vieles nach dem Vorbild Preußens gemacht. Die ganzen "Nazi-Märsche" sind eigentlich alle aus preußischer Zeit und deswegen auch nicht als Nazi-Märsche zu bezeichnen.

[buenosdiers]

Daher hatte die militaristische DDR ihre Art zu marschieren. Ich dachte immer, sie imitierten ihre militärischen Vorbilder, die Nazis!

[StellandBlood]

@Vladdy95THS Prussians were not Aryans,no one is in Europe.

One thing was this Europe of royalty,chivalry,morality,and patriotism,other was the Europe of nationalism,from Napoleon forward,of ignorance,huge xenophobia,and racism,even towards very similar peoples,just because of a border.

Not saying that a vision of a black men was common,and all would be indifferent to it,a vision that in those times aroused curiosity,not artificially inputed,hysteria,rejection and hate.

[SirJohnSmithPOTCO]

What is the name of the Marching Song?

[marzipann777]

Ja Programmatisches im Sinne multi-rassischer Zersetzung und Rassenvermischung ist auch dabei gewesen, schon 1962: Der Schwarz-Afrikaner vorne, worauf die Kamera mit Nachdruck verweist.Alles andere ist Kosmetik. Jetzt gibt es 100 Millionen judeo-afro-turco-islamisten-Sc­hmarotzer in der EU, und die ebenfalls jüdisch angetriebenen Abtreibungsfabriken, die Weltweit, jedoch hauptsächlich in der Weissen Welt, 55 Millionen Menschen jährlich töten. In D 300.000 seit 1949;von 44-49 sind es 23 M gewesen.

[TJPinoy]

@Karpaneen

Incorrect, blacks were extremely prized and were given to the most prestigious regiments as musicians. Their was also the Bosniaks of sometimes mixed and full Turkish and Slavic descent who served in the cavalry.

[russianempire1000]

Donth be rasist,he cod have traveld to Prussia from africa or america

[Preussen1914]

ist das aus einem Film?wenn ja welcher?