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If the person were a prisoner he wouldn't be carrying a rifle..

• Retric 2y ago
  Thus the joke… It’s a play on words, and the involuntary nature of service in the German military at the time.
  • hermitcrab 2y ago
    For some value of 'joke'.
    • Retric 2y ago
      Fair, but it’s a meme thread. My initial thought was. Pioneer: O panzer of the lake, why are our uniforms white? Panther: They must be easy to spot. But, I tried to reach past the pun and failed.
  • 1-more 2y ago
    German Army had 1.3 million conscripts and 2.4 million volunteers in the period 1935-1939 so odds are he signed up to be there.
    • Retric 2y ago
      Those numbers aren’t independent of each other. People about to be drafted will often volunteer to be in a military as a volunteer rather than a draftee, to get the waiting over with, etc.