There’s a tweet in the article:
Pete Hegseth: @PeteHegseth
Cool story, General
Ben Hodges: @general_ben
July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.
Fucking shitbag fuckmook.
Edit:
I keep seeing this historical “fact” but I can’t find anything corroborating it. “Hitler oaths” were already being taken since 1933, by June of 1935 the Reichswehr was replaced by the Wehrmacht.
The link you’ve shared here talks about the Führer Oath being created in August 1934 but not becoming law until mid-1935, which seems to roughly agree with the date in the post you’re disputing. I can’t find much to support the claim about a surprise assembly, though, at least from a cursory search.
It looks as though his post is taken almost verbatim from this substack post: https://thecycle.substack.com/p/from-hitler-to-hegseth
which doesn’t inspire the most confidence.
Alright relax pal. This was far more silly, and of much less significance.
Well shucks, bud. You know what? Boom, comment edited. Enjoy!
As it was put to CNN, the “guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint.”
So it’s purely an ego inflating thing. Gotcha.
Pure propaganda
Dictator-style.
All those high-ranking military folk in one spot at one time!
Super smart!While the likelihood is next to zero, can you imagine putin giving krasnov this order? It would be the opportunity of a lifetime.
A preview of Pickled Pete’s speech:
Harvey Dent: can we trust him?
I love the part about post by Ben Hodges on the same kind of thing happening in 1935 Germany. 90 years ago.
The gathering, which is scheduled to take place Tuesday, was described as a “pep rally.”
He’s going to rant about how great he is, then ask for his boots to be tongue polished, got it.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before, and it just seems extremely bizarre and strange,” Hertling said.
Get used to it dude.
If only some of the speakers didn’t have to leave that room ever again. Oh, lucky day for the rest of the world… 🤷🏼♂️
“I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC”
Yuuup. 🫡😶🌫️
what the new military looks like under Trump.
Trump should ask Hugo Boss to jazz up the military.
AI slop unfortunately. Hugo Boss didnt design any Nazi uniforms. His company had contracts to manufacture SS, SA and Hitler Youth uniforms.
Do you not consider SA, SS, and Hitler Youth nazis?
I do not consider manufacturing to be designing.
So then, exactly who did the designing?
If they were already well known for creating quality garments of their own design, they were probably chosen for that reason, knowing that they had the ability to manufacture their own designs. The Nazis probably had some input - “Black, lots of black” - but mostly they would have left the designs up to the pros, chose a few favorites, and gave the greenlight.
Edit: I stand respectfully corrected 100%. It’s what should be expected when one doesn’t do even the simplest Google search before glibly sounding off, and I will be leaving my ignorant post as a lesson to others. In the words of Artie Fufkin: “Go ahead, kick my ass.”
They were designed internally by each service. For example the SS uniforms were designed by Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck, with the belt buckle by Hitler. They mostly followed the patterns in use since before WWI.
Thousands of companies supplied uniforms. It would be pretty motley if each of the owners were allowed to muck about with the design.
You should also know that the Nazis weren’t interested in who could do a good job. They wanted contracts filled as cheaply and quickly as possible, quality rarely a factor, and favouring business deals with the prospect of kickbacks.
Excellent post. My apologies for my ignorance. See my edit to my original post.
Fair point!
He does realize this immediately makes him a domestic threat to the Constitution right?
As opposed to any other cabinet member
So who is providing the prep talk? Hegseth? I hope they laugh him out of the state
They’re so incompetent but also incredibly lucky.
Luck runs out, incompetence doesn’t.
So it’s nothing more than a Soviet/ North Korean/ Iraqi style propaganda video?
Hegseth thinks he’s going to call in all of our highest commanders, people who have spent their entire careers navigating the complex military labyrinth to the top of the game, and this ignorant sycophantic child thinks he’s going to tell THEM how the military is going to operate?
This video will have so much laughter, or outrage, from the audience, that it will be unreleasable.
A small part of me hopes that these Generals are so outraged by Hegseth’s arrogance, that they storm the stage and beat him to a pulp. Let the MAGAs release THAT video.
people who have spent their entire careers navigating the complex military labyrinth to the top of the game, and this ignorant sycophantic child thinks he’s going to tell THEM how the military is going to operate?
To be fair, these same generals are okay with deploying troops on American soil against American citizens, so yes. He will apparently tell them how to operate, and they will respond “yes daddy”.
They’ve never all been in the same room together before. Think about that. Before this, every communication between them has been monitored by someone, somewhere, and they all know it. They’ve never had the chance to get groups together outside of prying ears.
Maybe. Surveillance would be very tight, even outdoors. Its dangerous to get this many high ranking officers together, especially when your support isn’t fully set up. Maybe the reason to do it is to sniff out as many resisters as possible, and make a public example out of them.
This could be very bad, or it could be very good.
I’m sure that they will have MAGA commisars around to monitor for dissent
He should protect his neck
Protec’ yo neck.
Banger https://youtu.be/R0IUR4gkPIE
Everything is just so. goddamn. stupid.
You lot need someone with the stones of General Hummel.
I can only imagine the scuttlebut between some of these officers after the fact. Oh, to be a fly on that wall