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The goofy M56 was literally designed in the Third Reich after tests to reduce shrapnel casualties, but Hitler personally intervened to stop its adoption because the Stahlhelm was so aesthetically iconic to the German far-right.

East Germany was basically a Cold War Nazi Army with Soviet equipment because the Soviets let the GDR keep its Prussian military traditions and uniforms while the West ironically gutted any military tradition in the Bundeswehr