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🕑 Added 2023-04-19 11:49:14 +0000 UTCSecond World War images are so embedded in our culture that we can instantly recognize the "iconic" (terrible word for the circumstances) uniforms of nazi Germany soldiers, seen in countless movies. They seem to be images from distant past, but they are actually just one generation away. Soon after my city was seized by Wehrmacht, it was incorporated into the nazi Reich. When my mum was only one year old, my grandfather was arrested by the German police (allegedly for sabotage/espionage in a factory he worked at) and then sent to Mauthausen concentration camp. He survived it, but died before I was born. Among our family memorabilia we keep a hastily scribbled note on a scrap of paper that he managed to pass to somebody (who delivered it to my grandmother) while being put on the train heading to the camps. I get chills each time I look at it.
Long story short, while sculpting supportless nazis is not as bad as I expected, I feel some burden while doing it. Sculpting fantasy minis is a way to escape from reality, designing historical minis - rooted in my own family history - is not. Even more with the war next door, the biggest large-scale conflict since WW2.
So grab them:
- Wehrmacht officer (two-part model)
- Wehrmacht guard
- Resistance/civilian with handgun (can be used in any other games set in early 20th century)
- Resistance/civilian kneeling with rifle
- Einmannbunker (Luftschutzzelle) - this one-man bunker was commonly placed next to factories and rail stations as shrapnel shelter for soldiers guarding the facilities. We have a number of them here, when I was more active in the local heritage society we managed to save one from demolition.
Get them in the repository, the Einmannbunker is also on TV and Printables.
Thank you for your support!
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Comments
Mooseworks Plastic Soldiers
Awesome!
Broeckchen
I feel you a bit. It's wild how close this history still is to us. I only learnt recently that I never got to know my paternal grandfather because the Nazis sent him to a penitentiary for being a communist, and he didn't make it out alive. I live in Berlin, Germany, and places that can be identified as having Jewish patronage still need 24/7 police protection. I regularly pass the monuments to the pink triangle or the holocaust as I go about my day. It sometimes feels weird how to some people, this seems to feel so far in the past, when I have talked to people who had to flee from Silesia because of the Russians counterinvading face to face. Perhaps you can lighten that heavy feeling a little by also sculpting figures in honor of those who had to suffer? Carrying the symbols of the small revolutions that tried to break through, resembling the people who hid their neighbours from danger and protected each other?
