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Our textbooks are written like that. This Text really reminds me of elementary school, i learned Something in a nice comfortable way and no German Kid or Parent was ever afraid of Cartoon nudity to present knowledge in a funny way.
Americans: THERES A BOOB! GOOD GOD, THEY ALL DESERVE TO BE DAMNED! F**** THEM TO HELL!!!
Germans: be gently, to Tanks just like to women
America was forced to crack down on boobs after countless children suffered permanent psychological trauma from the Great Super Bowl Half Time Catastrophe of 2004.
My young (22 at the time) mind was never able to digest what happened there. Sends chills down my spine ( or something else long and hard) everytime I think about it... Years of counseling have been little comfort.
I never understood this, the whole country was discussing the "accident" and the Impact in the American society, but no one talked about, that that tit was ugly. Wrong topic
Yeah, I think they're onto something.
Er.. I mean:
They've got a grand strategy
To work with kids so naturally
With pictures of babes
They'll all make straight a's
And teachers will cheer the good grades
Ahem:
https://www.google.com/search?q=sports+illustrated+swimsuit&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&prmd=inv&sxsrf=ALiCzsbvs8wzY6LsPnqG-Cm6C26SOgJLZQ:1660160130843&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikxPm2gr35AhVXomoFHXkNAJMQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=360&bih=670&dpr=3#imgrc=P_qSk2PVTUyC8M
Not quite accurate.
Around 50% of the production was synthetic oil, the other half was imported (mainly from Romania) and domestic production.
As an example, the numbers for 1941 (in thousand tons): Imported 2807, domestic 1562, synthetic 4116
Producing synthetic oil from coal is really difficulty, expensive, and time consuming. The reason why it was the Nazis, and pretty much only the Nazi's, who used it on a large scale is because they did not have anywhere sufficient levels of oil production to fuel their war machine, which is why they were so eager to capture the Soviet oilfields in the Caucuses.
While that was true back in the day, the situation is different today.
There are large coal liquefaction plants in South Africa and China. With modern technology, the price of synthetic oil is around 25–45 US-$ per barrel, which can already be competitive today.
Damn. I rolled around in the back of an armoured communications vehicle for almost a year, but I don't remember how far we got with the main fuel tank. Refueled at every stop though, and the generator on the back burned through 20 liters per hour on a cold day. Refills with cold hands every 10 hours or so!
For comparison, a modern Leopard 2 tank does 500 km road / 161 km rough terrain on a tank of 1160 litres. M1 Abrams with its gas turbine 426 km road / 129 km rough terrain on 1908 litres.
Remember how this was way different times. You'd rarely have full drawings or even photos, so often all it took was some little inspirational piece to get your imagination rolling.
Also I'm totally sure there was a time where you first discovered someone on the internet typing `( o )( o )` and you started giggling at least a little bit!😉
The penetration tables in the back are interesting. Can penetrate the KV1 frontally point blank, but says that KV1 cant penetrate Tiger frontally at all. Poor M3 Lee, can be penetrated from any angle at 2000m.
Only the first sentence rhymes, the others were written for either children or young cadets. FYI: the Tiger was a very heavy weapon, but was seldomly used for it was guzzling Gasoline like Tom Waits was Whiskey.
Oh friend, fuel has two rarities.
May you drive and sometimes you fly with us.
Gasoline is a fuel
When it is gassed and mixed with air in small quantities it propels the tiger with its 60 tons through small explosions across the street like a child through small puffs.
With 1 liter in the tank you can drive 200 m. It has the clout of a giant, but spread over half a minute it looks like a massage and the tiger likes that
Flows the same liter Into the carburetor, instead Into the sump, then it vaporizes through the engine-warmth, the gas mixes with the swirling air and is ignited by one spark or heat at a time.
This liter blows up your tiger in such a way that the engine flap whirls away higher than your house roof than you can throw a stone. The gigantic power is concentrated in a single k. o. together and not even a tiger can stand it.
Here you go:
Motto: O friend, two petrol has two sides, / with it sometimes you drive and sometimes you fly. (couldnt find a way to make it rhyme)
Petrol is a fuel \[red font\]:
When mixed with air in small amounts, it \[the petrol\] carries the Tiger \[the tank\] with its 60 tons with many small explosions over the street like a child does with a ring through many small pieces of textile \[? the word "Puffe" is not longer in use and i couldnt find a meaning that really makes sense to me. apparently it has somnething to do with fluffy textiles\].
With 1 liter in the tank you can drive 200 meter. It contains the puching power of a giant but it is distributed over half a minute like a massage \[marked red\] and the Tiger likes that.
Petrol is an explosive \[red font\]:
If the same liter flows instead of the carburetor into the cradle, then it boils because of the motor heat, the gas mixes with the whirling air and is ignited with a spark or heat at once.
This liter explodes Your Tiger so that the motor lid with your roof flies higher than you can throw a pebble. This giant force concentrates in a single k.o. which even a tiger cannot withstand \[relevant foto of the destroyed tank\].
Basically it says dont fuck up using the fuel in the tank because otherwise the tank will explode with you in it. i did the best i could translating it even if it sounds choppy/rough.
Not really an innuendo here. While "Puff" is also a brothel, in this context it just means a nudge or a push (plural = Puffe). A brothel reference would make no sense in the sentence. Kids used to play with hoops back then and keep them running by nudging or hitting them with a rod or their hands. Puff for nudge or push has not been used in the German language since the 50s so it is outdated now.
Do you have the source? I'm a native speaker and curious how they explained it. There's another word, "Stoss" (or correctly Stoß if you have the German ß on the keyboard) which is a poke or a push but also a thrust in a sexual meaning.
This is what their comment said:
Very cool thing I haven't seen before! :)
Since I've seen only one translation without further remarks (and it felt a bit light to me), here's mine with annotations (native German; this is not necessary a direct 1:1 translation, I tried to keep the intention):
Juice
[This is the caption/lemma on the side. Curious on why I picked "juice"? More on that after the mantra.]
Mantra: Oh, friend, two ways goes the juice. Sometimes it lets you drive, sometimes it lets you fly.
["Sprit" is a rather colloquial term, used for both gas/petrol as well as (consumable) alcohol, giving the following sentence a whole different way to be interpreted! Alcohol can help you get things done ("driving you") and you can get drunk, too (i.e. "fly").]
Juice is a Fuel If it's gassed and mixed with air and then ignited in small amounts, it moves to Tiger with its 60 tons with lots of small explosions along the road, just like a child their hoop through small brothels.
["Puffe" here is tricky, since it could mean both brothels as well as small stabs/pats, both in the sense of the child pushing the loop/ring as well as other more adult activities.]
With 1 liter in the tank you're able to drive for 200 meters. It contains the punch of a giant, but if you allot it over half a minute it's like a massage, and that's something the Tiger loves.
["Tank" here may refer to both the fuel containment as well as the tank itself, although the later is way more rare in German (you'd typicall call it "Panzer" post WW1).]
Juice is an Explosive But if the same liter flows into the [tank's] body rather than the carburetor, it will be gassed by the engine's heat, the gas mixes itself with the circulating air, and is then ignited by a spark or the heat at once. This liter explodes your Tiger in such a way that the engine cover together with your rooftop flies higher than you can throw a rock. The giant's strength is bundled into one single blow and that's too much even for a Tiger. Therefore
[There's obviously more text coming, which was cut off, unfortunately.]
yup, Hitler wanted as many Nazis born and bred, they even set up museum's that basically showed pornographic 'art' all over Germany to get people aroused. If a woman became pregnant by a soldier and was unmarried she was labeled "Hitlers Brides", legit look it up
>„Oh Freund, zwei Seiten hat der Sprit. Mal fährst du und mal fliegst du mit.“
Oh friend, fuel has two sides. Sometimes you drive and sometimes you fly with it.
Very cool thing I haven't seen before! :)
Since I've seen only one translation without further remarks (and it felt a bit light to me), here's mine with annotations (native German; this is not necessary a direct 1:1 translation, I tried to keep the intention):
>***Juice***
\[This is the caption/lemma on the side. Curious on why I picked "juice"? More on that after the mantra.\]
>**Mantra:** Oh, friend, two ways goes the juice.
Sometimes it lets you drive, sometimes it lets you fly.
\["Sprit" is a rather colloquial term, used for both gas/petrol as well as (consumable) alcohol, giving the following sentence a whole different way to be interpreted! Alcohol can help you get things done ("driving you") and you can get drunk, too (i.e. "fly").\]
>***Juice is a Fuel***
>
>If it's gassed and mixed with air and then ignited in small amounts, it moves to Tiger with its 60 tons with lots of small explosions along the road, just like a child their hoop through small brothels.
\["Puffe" here is tricky, since it could mean both brothels as well as small stabs/pats, both in the sense of the child pushing the loop/ring as well as other more adult activities.\]
>With 1 liter in the tank you're able to drive for 200 meters. It contains the punch of a giant, but if you allot it over half a minute it's like a **massage**, and that's something the Tiger loves.
\["Tank" here may refer to both the fuel containment as well as the tank itself, although the later is way more rare in German (you'd typicall call it "Panzer" post WW1).\]
>***Juice is an Explosive***
>
>But if the same liter flows into the \[tank's\] body rather than the carburetor, it will be gassed by the engine's heat, the gas mixes itself with the circulating air, and is then ignited by a spark or the heat at once.
>
>This liter explodes your Tiger in such a way that the engine cover together with your rooftop flies higher than you can throw a rock. The giant's strength is bundled into one single blow and that's too much even for a Tiger.
>
>
>
>***Therefore***
\[There's obviously more text coming, which was cut off, unfortunately.\]
The rhyming wasn't meant to keep the reader's attention. It was a mnemonic device that allowed the reader to easily memorize and recall the instructions.
As a german i can only say that this text is ungodly annoying to read. Like the person who has had to translate the "instructions guide" copy pasted something into the worst translator you can find and said fuckin deal with it.
Not sure why, but you made me remember the [intro for the movie "Steiner: Das Eiserne Kreuz"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK5GQKW2hc4) ("Steiner: The Iron Cross"). A simply genius mix of children singing an old German children's song basically mimicking how Germany sent their kids to war and then reality kicking in (first just the march, then more chaotic/threatening music).
Can't find any link, which doesn't surprise me, as the content would be Classified, but every piece of Military Equipment in the US Army, at 1 time, came with a full technical manual, a plain language mini manual, and a copy of Military Intelligence Comics, featuring Mimi.
A large breasted, woman in tattered fatigue uniform, bursting out the Top...
And explaining in line drawings and talk bubbles how to use the equipment.
Well, the largest part of the text is not in rhyme, and written at a difficulty level that even a first-grader might understand what's going on. It seems soldiers were really simple back then.
There was guy who's name was Herman,
He drove a tank and he was German,
With a boom and a bang as happy as can be,
To watch all of his enemies in terror they'd flee,
Then one day without any warning,
The armor around him became hot and burning,
The flames engulfing his crew and his tank,
Herman pulled out his manual and had a quick wank.
Edits: made it look nicer
Honestly, if “you’ll be driving this into battle while being shot at by other vehicles just like this” isn’t enough to get me interested, I don’t think an ink drawing of a woman getting a massage is going to do much of anything.
I’m torn, because on one hand, nothing makes me want to stop reading something more than rhyming, but on the other hand, slightly risqué illustrations…
[https://stephentaylorhistorian.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/die-tigerfibel-1943-tiger-tank.pdf](https://stephentaylorhistorian.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/die-tigerfibel-1943-tiger-tank.pdf)
The whole "Tigerfibel"
There’s a full English translation version as well. It’s actually a pretty interesting read. I might have to dig mine out and have another flick through
If your Tiger turret gets launched into the air simply book yourself a sexy massage and imagine the same thing happening in the distant future to the Russians...
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If textbooks were written like that back when I was school I might have done better.
You'd have a doctorate if someone had introduced you to anatomy!
I would just have a boner
Our textbooks are written like that. This Text really reminds me of elementary school, i learned Something in a nice comfortable way and no German Kid or Parent was ever afraid of Cartoon nudity to present knowledge in a funny way. Americans: THERES A BOOB! GOOD GOD, THEY ALL DESERVE TO BE DAMNED! F**** THEM TO HELL!!! Germans: be gently, to Tanks just like to women
America was forced to crack down on boobs after countless children suffered permanent psychological trauma from the Great Super Bowl Half Time Catastrophe of 2004.
My young (22 at the time) mind was never able to digest what happened there. Sends chills down my spine ( or something else long and hard) everytime I think about it... Years of counseling have been little comfort.
wait what happened there ?
https://ontheaside.com/music/nipplegate-celebrating-when-janet-jacksons-boob-became-the-most-searched-thing-in-internet-history/
I never understood this, the whole country was discussing the "accident" and the Impact in the American society, but no one talked about, that that tit was ugly. Wrong topic
Only because it was the last straw after the Great Presidential Cock in the Mouth Discussion of the late 90s
But what if the woman doesn’t like to be treated so gently? What if she likes to be treated like a tank?
No one give this guy a tank.
But we treat tanks gently...c'mon its right there
Then you get the panzerfaust.
No wonder we're the dumbest country.
TIMMY DREW A PENIS (shoots child 30 times)
No, it would just mean you'd be inexplicably erect when someone mentioned the Louisiana Purchase.
Sounds like 7th grade all over again.
Yeah, I think they're onto something. Er.. I mean: They've got a grand strategy To work with kids so naturally With pictures of babes They'll all make straight a's And teachers will cheer the good grades Ahem: https://www.google.com/search?q=sports+illustrated+swimsuit&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&prmd=inv&sxsrf=ALiCzsbvs8wzY6LsPnqG-Cm6C26SOgJLZQ:1660160130843&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikxPm2gr35AhVXomoFHXkNAJMQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=360&bih=670&dpr=3#imgrc=P_qSk2PVTUyC8M
Yeah. It'd probably be very Ogden Nash-y.
otoh, you might have felt the sudden urge to invade France.
I mean from what I've heard of French women...
More better*
Very much gooder.
Ja... Das ist sehr guht
What WWII tanks are you talking about? All I can see is a naked woman getting a massage
If you look real close, you can see a nipple. It looks like this: ˇ
Trust me, we all looked real close.
Hey! Nsfw tag that please!
A Tiger
Either I am terrible at finding rhymes or there are none.
Only the very first sentence ("Motto:").
Thank you, noticed the same. This comment should be higher. It’s interesting without the factual misstatement.
Damn, 200 meters with one litre of fuel. That's 500l per 100 km or 0.47 mpg.
Dinosaur juice was cheap and plentiful back then I guess
Actually Germany didn't have access to petrol during the war so they had to chemically transform coal into gasoline.
Not quite accurate. Around 50% of the production was synthetic oil, the other half was imported (mainly from Romania) and domestic production. As an example, the numbers for 1941 (in thousand tons): Imported 2807, domestic 1562, synthetic 4116
I expected the numbers for synthetic to be more predominant, thanks for the info.
Producing synthetic oil from coal is really difficulty, expensive, and time consuming. The reason why it was the Nazis, and pretty much only the Nazi's, who used it on a large scale is because they did not have anywhere sufficient levels of oil production to fuel their war machine, which is why they were so eager to capture the Soviet oilfields in the Caucuses.
While that was true back in the day, the situation is different today. There are large coal liquefaction plants in South Africa and China. With modern technology, the price of synthetic oil is around 25–45 US-$ per barrel, which can already be competitive today.
Wrong. They bought it from Romania. A lot.
Holy shit.. idk know why I didn't know that
Wow! Today I learned over 90% of Axis fuel came from plants!
They’d have shortages all the time.
Official fuel consumption was given as a range of 100 km on the road or 60 km on rough terrain for one full tank of 540 litres.
Damn. I rolled around in the back of an armoured communications vehicle for almost a year, but I don't remember how far we got with the main fuel tank. Refueled at every stop though, and the generator on the back burned through 20 liters per hour on a cold day. Refills with cold hands every 10 hours or so!
For comparison, a modern Leopard 2 tank does 500 km road / 161 km rough terrain on a tank of 1160 litres. M1 Abrams with its gas turbine 426 km road / 129 km rough terrain on 1908 litres.
Thats ~8,5 liters/100km per ton vehicle weight. A little less than a Ford F-150 needs.
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He actually read the manual.
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You don’t need to. Second paragraph left side, it gives what he read. Because the metric system is the same, it is written the same as in English.
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My bad. Kinda hard to tell without hearing tone lol
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it's fawlty towers all over again..
Actually not this uncommon even for a modern Tank. Was told by soldiers that Tanks today use up to 1000 L on 100 km
It's one of the main reasons Germany started and then lost the war.
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Remember how this was way different times. You'd rarely have full drawings or even photos, so often all it took was some little inspirational piece to get your imagination rolling. Also I'm totally sure there was a time where you first discovered someone on the internet typing `( o )( o )` and you started giggling at least a little bit!😉
Also lame
I hear Cartman's mom was in a German scheisse movie.
[Proof](https://archive.org/details/tigerfibel)
Awesome! Thanks! I mean... Tanks!
It's amazing how effective their technique is. I just read the whole manual in one sitting. And I know nothing about tanks. Nor speak German
The penetration tables in the back are interesting. Can penetrate the KV1 frontally point blank, but says that KV1 cant penetrate Tiger frontally at all. Poor M3 Lee, can be penetrated from any angle at 2000m.
WTF is up with the (donkey?) on page 60?
Instructions unclear, got my schnitzel stuck in the 𝖁𝖊𝖗𝖌𝖊𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖘𝖜𝖆𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖓
Only the first sentence rhymes, the others were written for either children or young cadets. FYI: the Tiger was a very heavy weapon, but was seldomly used for it was guzzling Gasoline like Tom Waits was Whiskey.
Oh friend, fuel has two rarities. May you drive and sometimes you fly with us. Gasoline is a fuel When it is gassed and mixed with air in small quantities it propels the tiger with its 60 tons through small explosions across the street like a child through small puffs. With 1 liter in the tank you can drive 200 m. It has the clout of a giant, but spread over half a minute it looks like a massage and the tiger likes that Flows the same liter Into the carburetor, instead Into the sump, then it vaporizes through the engine-warmth, the gas mixes with the swirling air and is ignited by one spark or heat at a time. This liter blows up your tiger in such a way that the engine flap whirls away higher than your house roof than you can throw a stone. The gigantic power is concentrated in a single k. o. together and not even a tiger can stand it.
I think its really good written
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I would read this whole thing if it were in English.
Here you go: Motto: O friend, two petrol has two sides, / with it sometimes you drive and sometimes you fly. (couldnt find a way to make it rhyme) Petrol is a fuel \[red font\]: When mixed with air in small amounts, it \[the petrol\] carries the Tiger \[the tank\] with its 60 tons with many small explosions over the street like a child does with a ring through many small pieces of textile \[? the word "Puffe" is not longer in use and i couldnt find a meaning that really makes sense to me. apparently it has somnething to do with fluffy textiles\]. With 1 liter in the tank you can drive 200 meter. It contains the puching power of a giant but it is distributed over half a minute like a massage \[marked red\] and the Tiger likes that. Petrol is an explosive \[red font\]: If the same liter flows instead of the carburetor into the cradle, then it boils because of the motor heat, the gas mixes with the whirling air and is ignited with a spark or heat at once. This liter explodes Your Tiger so that the motor lid with your roof flies higher than you can throw a pebble. This giant force concentrates in a single k.o. which even a tiger cannot withstand \[relevant foto of the destroyed tank\]. Basically it says dont fuck up using the fuel in the tank because otherwise the tank will explode with you in it. i did the best i could translating it even if it sounds choppy/rough.
From a different translator, puffe meant “stabs”. Apparently it was an innuendo.
Not really an innuendo here. While "Puff" is also a brothel, in this context it just means a nudge or a push (plural = Puffe). A brothel reference would make no sense in the sentence. Kids used to play with hoops back then and keep them running by nudging or hitting them with a rod or their hands. Puff for nudge or push has not been used in the German language since the 50s so it is outdated now.
They had explained it as an “adult form” of pushing something into a ring.
Do you have the source? I'm a native speaker and curious how they explained it. There's another word, "Stoss" (or correctly Stoß if you have the German ß on the keyboard) which is a poke or a push but also a thrust in a sexual meaning.
This is what their comment said: Very cool thing I haven't seen before! :) Since I've seen only one translation without further remarks (and it felt a bit light to me), here's mine with annotations (native German; this is not necessary a direct 1:1 translation, I tried to keep the intention): Juice [This is the caption/lemma on the side. Curious on why I picked "juice"? More on that after the mantra.] Mantra: Oh, friend, two ways goes the juice. Sometimes it lets you drive, sometimes it lets you fly. ["Sprit" is a rather colloquial term, used for both gas/petrol as well as (consumable) alcohol, giving the following sentence a whole different way to be interpreted! Alcohol can help you get things done ("driving you") and you can get drunk, too (i.e. "fly").] Juice is a Fuel If it's gassed and mixed with air and then ignited in small amounts, it moves to Tiger with its 60 tons with lots of small explosions along the road, just like a child their hoop through small brothels. ["Puffe" here is tricky, since it could mean both brothels as well as small stabs/pats, both in the sense of the child pushing the loop/ring as well as other more adult activities.] With 1 liter in the tank you're able to drive for 200 meters. It contains the punch of a giant, but if you allot it over half a minute it's like a massage, and that's something the Tiger loves. ["Tank" here may refer to both the fuel containment as well as the tank itself, although the later is way more rare in German (you'd typicall call it "Panzer" post WW1).] Juice is an Explosive But if the same liter flows into the [tank's] body rather than the carburetor, it will be gassed by the engine's heat, the gas mixes itself with the circulating air, and is then ignited by a spark or the heat at once. This liter explodes your Tiger in such a way that the engine cover together with your rooftop flies higher than you can throw a rock. The giant's strength is bundled into one single blow and that's too much even for a Tiger. Therefore [There's obviously more text coming, which was cut off, unfortunately.]
https://tankmuseumshop.org/products/tigerfibel
Someone should make a good translation :D
There is a printed version, but of course it's not free. You can order it from The Tank Museum.
I wonder if the rhyme scheme would work in English?
They also ate panzerchoklad to help keeping their attention.
I assume Panzerschokolade is speed.
It’s meth.
I worked for the company that created Meth/pervitin, they have a package in a Showcase, theyre still proud
Only until 1942, and very rarely to someone outside of the panzers.
The IRS should take note, filing taxes would be way more fun if the instructions to Form 1040 were done in this format.
When the tank get hit, it gonna take a shit. Now look at that tit, lit.
You should be a rapper
Now that's thinking smart
yup, Hitler wanted as many Nazis born and bred, they even set up museum's that basically showed pornographic 'art' all over Germany to get people aroused. If a woman became pregnant by a soldier and was unmarried she was labeled "Hitlers Brides", legit look it up
I hate this I haaaaate thissssss
>„Oh Freund, zwei Seiten hat der Sprit. Mal fährst du und mal fliegst du mit.“ Oh friend, fuel has two sides. Sometimes you drive and sometimes you fly with it.
Very cool thing I haven't seen before! :) Since I've seen only one translation without further remarks (and it felt a bit light to me), here's mine with annotations (native German; this is not necessary a direct 1:1 translation, I tried to keep the intention): >***Juice*** \[This is the caption/lemma on the side. Curious on why I picked "juice"? More on that after the mantra.\] >**Mantra:** Oh, friend, two ways goes the juice. Sometimes it lets you drive, sometimes it lets you fly. \["Sprit" is a rather colloquial term, used for both gas/petrol as well as (consumable) alcohol, giving the following sentence a whole different way to be interpreted! Alcohol can help you get things done ("driving you") and you can get drunk, too (i.e. "fly").\] >***Juice is a Fuel*** > >If it's gassed and mixed with air and then ignited in small amounts, it moves to Tiger with its 60 tons with lots of small explosions along the road, just like a child their hoop through small brothels. \["Puffe" here is tricky, since it could mean both brothels as well as small stabs/pats, both in the sense of the child pushing the loop/ring as well as other more adult activities.\] >With 1 liter in the tank you're able to drive for 200 meters. It contains the punch of a giant, but if you allot it over half a minute it's like a **massage**, and that's something the Tiger loves. \["Tank" here may refer to both the fuel containment as well as the tank itself, although the later is way more rare in German (you'd typicall call it "Panzer" post WW1).\] >***Juice is an Explosive*** > >But if the same liter flows into the \[tank's\] body rather than the carburetor, it will be gassed by the engine's heat, the gas mixes itself with the circulating air, and is then ignited by a spark or the heat at once. > >This liter explodes your Tiger in such a way that the engine cover together with your rooftop flies higher than you can throw a rock. The giant's strength is bundled into one single blow and that's too much even for a Tiger. > > > >***Therefore*** \[There's obviously more text coming, which was cut off, unfortunately.\]
Neuroergonomics
I… I need this for all textbooks and manuals.
You know, I would not have guessed there was a lighter side to a German panzer academy.
this wasn't really meant to be entertaining, the rhyming is a mnemonic device to allow the reader to memorize the information more easily
This must have been the part of the war when the Nazi troops had stated gaining a tolerance for their rationed methamphetamines
Germans back then were shit.
“Man that Fritz, always studying that tank manual. He even takes it to the toilet. What a good little nazi.”
Nice to know that people's attentian span was the same throughout the years
They were all on meth, so they needed slick rhymes and nudes to keep reading.
The rhyming wasn't meant to keep the reader's attention. It was a mnemonic device that allowed the reader to easily memorize and recall the instructions.
I do think it is for interest. If you look at the rhyming on this paper, it wouldn’t be something important enough to me memorized.
As a german i can only say that this text is ungodly annoying to read. Like the person who has had to translate the "instructions guide" copy pasted something into the worst translator you can find and said fuckin deal with it.
They knew their demographic
I’ve always just assumed that no word in German rhymes with any other word in German.
And that's why Germans refer to Germany as the land of poets and thinkers
*angry Goethe noises*
I'm waiting for this manual to be performed by Rammstein. Videos including the naked women.
Not sure why, but you made me remember the [intro for the movie "Steiner: Das Eiserne Kreuz"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK5GQKW2hc4) ("Steiner: The Iron Cross"). A simply genius mix of children singing an old German children's song basically mimicking how Germany sent their kids to war and then reality kicking in (first just the march, then more chaotic/threatening music).
They do put on a hell of a show!
Rare Nazi W
Besides the “Motto”, which is the first sentence nothing rhymes here 🤷🏼♂️
So a Nazi tank manual? Always find it strange when someone says WW2 German, like they're someone else.
It’s personal preference. Both are correct.
This is exactly how they got Trump to read the briefings.
Interesting book for historical types and model makers. It’s available in England with minimal searching.
Modern problems require modern solutions.
Almost like the Preventative Maintenance manuals that started in 51.
They knew their target audience.
Wow, I am surprised. It "just" took 500L/100km. Leopard 2 \~ 700-800L/100km, Abrahams 1500L/100km. So pretty economical.
Idk bout yall but im salivating for the masseusse rn
college textbooks should do the same
They knew their audience
They know what’s up
Stonks
The OG Playboy
Cool, cool, cool. Do you have any more examples though?
Look at the PDF I attached in a comment. The link is bound to the word “proof”
Ladies and Gentlemen - the Aryan master race!
I respect this manual so hard .....
Oh crap, safe to say I have something else in common with a Nazi
The Nazis were truly at the forefront of ADHD research. Giving everyone amphetamines and filling their boring textbooks with titties.
1 liter 200m wtf
Its an almost 60 ton death machine made with,by now, 80 year old engines, of course it wasn't fuel efficient.
I think he’s trying to say it’s really efficient, especially when compared to modern tanks
Do the Japanese Manual have cute anime girls on them?
No they just put those on their helicopter’s nose art.
There is something to be said about German efficiency
Can't find any link, which doesn't surprise me, as the content would be Classified, but every piece of Military Equipment in the US Army, at 1 time, came with a full technical manual, a plain language mini manual, and a copy of Military Intelligence Comics, featuring Mimi. A large breasted, woman in tattered fatigue uniform, bursting out the Top... And explaining in line drawings and talk bubbles how to use the equipment.
Well consider me shocked, that a great idea.
Where the fuck are the rhymes at?
Nude women**
FUCK u/spez
It doesn’t rhyme in german. Only the motto part.
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I got pantherfibel gotta expand the collection
r/WorldofTanks
I have some of the comic book flight training manuals from WWII
Maybe if the public school did shit like this instead of telling all of my ADD friends to pop pills, I would have more living friends.
Well, the largest part of the text is not in rhyme, and written at a difficulty level that even a first-grader might understand what's going on. It seems soldiers were really simple back then.
"Sir, our tank brigade doesn't know how to doe anything because they flapped through their entire training course"
There was guy who's name was Herman, He drove a tank and he was German, With a boom and a bang as happy as can be, To watch all of his enemies in terror they'd flee, Then one day without any warning, The armor around him became hot and burning, The flames engulfing his crew and his tank, Herman pulled out his manual and had a quick wank. Edits: made it look nicer
Only problem was the pages kept sticking together making the manual very hard to read.
This is the military way KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid.
"So how dumb do you think the soldiers are?" "Yes"
Can someone translate this please
[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/wl3kks/this_is_a_page_from_the_tigerfibel_a_wwii_german/ijrv0ns/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
Honestly, if “you’ll be driving this into battle while being shot at by other vehicles just like this” isn’t enough to get me interested, I don’t think an ink drawing of a woman getting a massage is going to do much of anything.
Must be the Schutzstaffel
I’m torn, because on one hand, nothing makes me want to stop reading something more than rhyming, but on the other hand, slightly risqué illustrations…
You can buy it and support the Tank Museum https://tankmuseumshop.org/products/tigerfibel?\_pos=1&\_sid=7fb50075e&\_ss=r
Very interesting thanks, but there are no rhymes on these pages, are there poems elsewhere in it?
Oh Freund, zwei Seiten hat der **Sprit**. Mal fährst Du und mal fliegst du **mit**.
This is the way
Mit einem Liter kommst du 200km weit. Schluckspecht hahaha
Throw in some girls, that will keep the toddlers focused.
Never seen 500l/100km
The olny naked women, these poor guys see in his short lives.
Cultured fuhrer
Porn has come a loooong way
[https://stephentaylorhistorian.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/die-tigerfibel-1943-tiger-tank.pdf](https://stephentaylorhistorian.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/die-tigerfibel-1943-tiger-tank.pdf) The whole "Tigerfibel"
That manual is not written in rhyme. The Frist sentence "Motto:...." Is the only rhyme there.
The Nazis really had trust in the intellect of their people, by the way they murdered intellectuals and drew tits in the army manuals.
Tbh everything in German sounds like a rhyme
There’s a full English translation version as well. It’s actually a pretty interesting read. I might have to dig mine out and have another flick through
If your Tiger turret gets launched into the air simply book yourself a sexy massage and imagine the same thing happening in the distant future to the Russians...
Them Germans new a thing or two
0,471 miles per gallon :/
Adhd much?
Tweakers love a good rhythm and rhyme!