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Few instruction manuals are as effectively designed as the Tigerfibel, designed for the crew of the Tiger tank. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerfibel http
by Daub 3y ago
Few instruction manuals are as effectively designed as the Tigerfibel, designed for the crew of the Tiger tank.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerfibel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigerfibel
From the Wiki..
Like other manuals designated as Fibel (basic primer), they summarised what the crew needed to know for day-to-day use of the tank, but unlike the typical tedious style of a German tank manual of that period, it is well illustrated in a comic style and much of the text is written as humorous poetry.
The author's knew their audience, with plentiful use of scantily clad ladies.
- 082349872349872 3y agoWill Eisner and his studio made some US equivalents, which were similarly easy on the eyes. Motto: If you'd like that Joe remembers, draw a damsel's unclothed members Bei der Kaserne Vor dem grossen Tor Steht ′ne Laterne Und steht sie noch davor
- 082349872349872 3y agop 50 of the Tiger-Fibel shows how "swiping right" worked in the 1930s, with an upper right corner drawing of the table telephones from the "Femina Palast" Berlin nightclub. https://archive.org/details/Der-Generalinspekteur-der-Panzertruppen-Die-Tiger-Fibel/page/n47/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/Der-Generalinspekteur-der-Panzer... (it's in the radio/intercomm section, so it looks like tech manuals going ahead and duzing the reader are nothing new?)