Have you noticed, that our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them?
I ... I don't ...
Hans ... are we the baddies?
Let's see. We should be able to hold them at this point here. At least for a few hours.
Why skulls, though?
What?
Why skulls?
Well, maybe they are the skulls of our enemies.
Maybe. But is that how it comes across? It doesn't say next to the skull, you know ... "Yeah we killed him, but trust us, this guy was horrid."
Well no, but ...
I mean what a skull is making you think of? Death, cannibals, beheading ... ehm ... pirates.
Pirates are fun!
I didn't say we weren't fun. But fun or not, pirates are still the baddies.
I just can't think of anything good about a skull.
What about pure Aryan skull shape?
Even that is more usually depicted with the skin still on. Whereas the Allies ...
Oh, you haven't been listening to Allied propaganda. Of course they're gonna say we are the bad guys.
But they didn't get to design our uniforms. Their symbols are all, you know, quite nice. Stars, stripes, lions, sickles.
What's so good about a sickle?
Well, nothing. And obviously, if there's one thing we have learned in the last thousand miles of retreat, it's that Russian agriculture is in dire need of mechanization.
Tell me about it.
But you've gotta say, it's better than a skull. I mean, I really can't think of anything worse as a symbol than a skull.
A rat's anus?
Yeah, and if we were fighting an army marching under the banner of a rat's anus, I'd probably a lot less worry, Hans.
By the side that won.