Edward Mass posted:

I think we need to prescribe Nazis into different groups that include, but are not limited to, "hated the Jews" and "didn't like what the Nazis stood for, but were required by German law to join".

Cessna posted:

No, sorry...

Here's how they were bad.

First and foremost, they weren't adjustable. No, really - you had to get one that was the right size for your head, like a hat. They came with 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, or 62 cm liners and corresponding shell sizes. You could not swap a different sized liner into a non-corresponding shell. Think that makes logistics easier?

Helmets were made in multiple stages with multiple mechanical presses. It took multiple individual presses to give the helmet its shape. These are WWI helmets, but the same process was followed in WWII:



There was no real assembly line - a worker would make one press, then put it on a pile. After the pile was high enough the next worker would take the helmets and carry them to the next press. This is confirmed by multiple photos of factories:



The edges were then press rolled by hand. They were also heat-tempered on the front of the helmet. This wasn't done with a huge industrial oven - there are photos of workers grabbing individual helmets with a big steel set of tongs and sticking them in an open furnace. Rivets for ventilation, the liner, and the chin strap were pressed in by hand. They were also spray-painted by hand, not on an assembly line.

After the helmets were painted they were given an individual paper wrapper to make sure the paint wasn't scuffed before it was issued. Think about that for a minute. Here are helmets being wrapped:



Each helmet had two decals (until 1940), again, applied by hand. If you've ever built a model airplane, imagine having to apply thousands of decals all day long:



The liner consisted of five leaf-springs wrapped with a leather liner which was, yes, sewn in by hand. This took a LOT of specialized labor. Here's a photo of a helmet liner. (Not my helmet, but I can take a photo of one of mine if anyone is interested.) You can see the rolled rim pretty well. See that stitching on the seam in the back? Done by hand.



Here's a Fallschirmjager/paratrooper's helmet. See that stitching across the liner? Hand sewn.



In contrast, an American/British/Russian helmet was hot-stamped. This made the helmet in one step and tempered it. Each step after that was automated, done by assembly line. And helmets had adjustable liners, so any soldier could wear them.

By 1942/3 the Germans stopped rolling the edges, dropped the decals, and simplified the manufacturing. Too little, too late.

howe_sam posted:

Cessna's effortposts about bad Nazi uniforms were in one of the recentish iterations of the MilHist thread, but I don't remember which one offhand. They were a fascinating read though.

Life, as they say, comes at you fast

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1267887955902947330

muscles like this! posted:

Moonbeam City had an absolutely amazing bit of comedy where Will Forte's character was forced to come up with jazz album names in order to fake being rich and the bit just keeps going on and on and on.

muscles like this! posted:

Also, according to Entertainment Weekly Batwoman is not going to just recast the lead and instead are just making a brand new character who will now be Batwoman. How exactly will this work when so much of Batwoman's plot revolves on her being directly related to many of the characters, including Bruce?

GreenNight posted:

Anyways, it might be bullshit. EW did a report off a Reddit post that was removed.

The Clowner posted:

What happened to the old lead

edit: oh

TV Zombie posted:

I’m wondering how they write her out.

Big Mean Jerk posted:

She was also nearly paralyzed by a stunt fuckup, so I'm sure that's part of it.

Edward Mass posted:

I think we need to prescribe Nazis into different groups that include, but are not limited to, "hated the Jews" and "didn't like what the Nazis stood for, but were required by German law to join".

Escobarbarian posted:

man.....should I watch Moonbeam City? I thought it was generally not that well-regarded.

Ignis posted:

Sleeveless posted:

There's a lot to like about The New Order but making it so that there actually was a secret Jewish conspiracy where a shadowy cabal of elders possessed weapons of unbelievable power is really muddled since it both makes Hitler's anti-Semitic propaganda be technically correct and also makes it so that the Jews not only failed to stop the third Reich and their own extermination but were actively responsible for creating the technology that let Hitler conquer the world.

feedmegin posted:

Nobody was required by German law to join the Nazi Party (it just impacted your job prospects) let alone the SS. You may be thinking of the Hitler Youth but that's not usually a factor with the rocket scientists.

Escobarbarian posted:

man.....should I watch Moonbeam City? I thought it was generally not that well-regarded.

muscles like this! posted:

There's basically no good options. It has to be permanent because otherwise there will be a pall over the show about the "real" Batwoman coming back and they can't just have her mysteriously vanish because that is the reason Batman isn't around any more. It will really depend on how amicable the split really was and maybe they can film something with Ruby Rose to bridge the gap.

Lurdiak posted:

Do people not just recast anymore? TV shows used to do that poo poo all the time and not even address it.

howe_sam posted:

Arrow recast Sara Lance.

I'm honestly surprised Legends has never made a joke about that.

Lurdiak posted:

Do people not just recast anymore? TV shows used to do that poo poo all the time and not even address it.

Pedro De Heredia posted:

GoT had some pretty comical recastings.

Iron Crowned posted:

Disfiguring explosion resulting in plastic surgery and robot voice