Forgotten Crimes of WWII The OST-Hamster Battalions

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ORIGINAL: Slapdragon
Yes, even more dreaded is the Hamstersturmtroppenfleabagenjaegermeisterfliegershiessen (Does anyone envy German's ability to crunch together 8 words and come up with a new word? I do, must be fun on Saturday nights) of the Luftwaffe. Someone discovered that Hamsters, like Cats, can fall incredible heights without getting hurt, saving money on parachutes. Of course, if you throw them out of a plan at too high and altitude, they explode in the low pressure, so the Hamstershiessen as they were know in short had to be duct tapes (er, in this case hamster taped) to keep that from happening, and they had to hold their paws over their eyes on the way down.

Added advantage: after picking the tape off themselves, those rodents were pissed, so look out allied Armies!

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[76mm]

Is this supposed to be funny, or interesting?

[zakblood]

seems more like spam tbh[:(]

[cpdeyoung]

To each his/her own.

I thought it was very clever, and enjoyed it. Nice idea, very well executed. Funny and interesting.

Chuck

[rico21]

+1
I think E tries to tell us that the war is too serious to leave it to men and that we must leave it to the hamsters![:D]

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ORIGINAL: 76mm
Is this supposed to be funny, or interesting?

Is that a rhetorical question?

ORIGINAL: zakblood
seems more like spam tbh[:(]

Damn, Zak has seen right through my plot to sell habitrails to various Armies of the world!

ORIGINAL: Slapdragon
Pic 3

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ORIGINAL: Hamsters at War
The G.I.H., or Gerbil Issue Hamster, seen here contemplating the fortifications of the Siegfried Line. This was the heart and soul of the U.S.R.A. These furry infantry led the way in the Normandy invasion, the fighting in the bocage, the breakout and pursuit through France, helped to blunt the Ardennes offensive . . . they were in the vanguard of every major engagement of the war. Brought into being by request of US Vice-President Harry S. Truman, they took to calling themselves, "Harry's Hapless Hamsters." (Author's collection)

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ORIGINAL: Hamsters at War
Fascinating photo of hamstergrenadiers on the Russian front waiting for the signal to spring to the attack. The equipment of the one on the right is clearly seen. Food pellet pouches, stick grenade stuck in his belt, and water bottle with steel tip and metal ball within. (Author's collection)

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ORIGINAL: Hamsters at War
USRA Hamsters taking a well needed rest around their halftrack. Note the hamster at right is in under the vehicle itself which was a favorite spot for due to the hamsters burrowing instinct and the lack of sawdust on European battlefields. (photo courtesy Slapdragon)

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ORIGINAL: Hamsters at War
The last advance on the Western Front; Operation Wacht am Rein. This fluffy yet fearsome looking hamstergrenadier was but one of the 1,000s of unheralded hammies that participated in the Battle of the Bulge. The loses among the rodent units on both sides were staggering. The Allies listed their rodent casualties at 75% (killed, wounded, molting). The Germans originally claimed losses of 65% but inspection of captured Wermacht and Waffen-SS records after the war revealed that losses of 90% were more likely. (author's collection)

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ORIGINAL: Hamsters at War
Excerpt from famous Cat Poem:

Hamsters to the right of us,
Nutria to the left of us!
Charge oh puss brigade
o'er to the wain we go....

The lifeless bodies of dead hamstergrenadiers bear grim witness to the savagery of the fighting that US's hamster destroyer units faced on the outskirts of Carentan in 1944. Here, a two cat team "mans" a .30 caliber machine gun, a sneer of contempt on the face of the loader. Only introduced in 1944 hamster destroyer units soon gained a reputation as some of the most effective troops of the war. (Author's collection)

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ORIGINAL: Hamsters at War
After discovering that landing craft made of rocks could not float, let alone carry the heavy hamster tank, the nutria, Germany abandonded all thoughts of a cross-channel invasion. Here a waterlogged Nutria expresses its disgust after sinking into a stream during a training exercise. Originally bred in South America, it is a little known fact that the reason so many ex-Nazis were welcomed into the area after the war because of their respect of the nutria's combat abilities. Many former Third Reich officers were recruited to train nutria for combat in South America.

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ORIGINAL: Hamsters at War
Photo of a soldier of the 1st Free Hamster Division under General Jacques LeRodent. (photo courtesy Slapdragon)

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ORIGINAL: Hamsters at War
Kharkov 1943 - Hamster-SS Oberfluffsturmführer peers over a wall inside the city. The orchestrators of the Kharkov Counteroffensive, Erich von Manstein and Paul Hausser never officially admitted that they had utilized rodent units in the attack but after the war it was confirmed that the 2nd SS "Die Ratte" division was used to infiltrate Soviet lines prior to the main attack. Their mission was to gnaw through communications wires and ignition wires in Soviet tanks. They carried out the assignment beyond the wildest expectations of the German High Command. (Author's collection)

[TheGrayMouser]

Way too much effort for something with such questionable taste, without an appropriate offset of humor.

[76mm]

ORIGINAL: E
Is that a rhetorical question?

No, I'm genuinely curious.

[Aurelian]

ORIGINAL: zakblood

seems more like spam tbh[:(]

I agree.

[Zap]

I don't follow OP. lost me back at the pass.

[chris_merchant]

hmm there is a faint aroma of elderberries in this thread.