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Re: Luftwaffe Customs and Courtesies
Thank you one and all for your replies and responses. I'm pretty certain the Luftwaffe, Wehrmacht, and today's Bundeswehr share similar customs and courtesies with the US Marine Corps. (In fact, when I was in the Marine Corps, we were taught that our customs and courtesies were taken from the pre-WWI Imperial German army, and 3/4 our field tactics were based on the Wehrmacht/Heer. And both realizations were a matter of considerable pride.)
Only the US army salutes indoors and uncovered as far as I know, and that practice seems very weird.
hanshauprich wrote, "An airman, even the lowest rang, but with the Ritterkreuz must be saluted first by all other ranks!! (Inside and outside) The salut honored the Ritterkreuz not the men!!" This is true?
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