A baffling clip celebrating a new tank brigade stationed in Lithuania shows the depth of Berlin’s military delusions
A dark clearing in a forest at dusk, flaming torches, a blazing brazier with an almost runic-looking sword shape cut into its cast-iron shell, a machine gun pointing into a foreboding sky in a steep Leni Riefenstahl angle, the oddly grating voice of the leader holding forth about ‘Kameraden’, ‘kriegstüchtig’, and ‘siegen’ in German, and a lot of men in uniform enthusiastically hollering in response.
All set against a score that seems to have been composed by Richard Wagner on acid to accompany a horde of burned-out German tanks…
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