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[West Front 1918]

  In the Movies All Quiet on the Western front, Why is Himmelstoss a Corporal in the remake and a Sergeant in the Original?

 In the original film why is Himmelstoss wearing a helmet with a missing air vent lug?

In both films why is Himmelstoss always shouting about obeying him as "your superior officer" when he is an Enlisted man?

 Mike

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In the Movies All Quiet on the Western Front, Why is Himmelstoss a Corporal in the remake and a Sergeant in the Original?

Because of how they translate the title of his rank. Some (the remake in particular) use British conventions and they would call him a corporal. Here, we'd call him a Sgt. I think. Also, a goodly chunk of the problem is that they're movies and Hollywierd doesn't much care for authenticity... Have you watched Flyboys yet? Great movie... however comma, I love how the Germans are all evyil and do heinous stuff and the good allies never do :-0

In the original film why is Himmelstoss wearing a helmet with a missing air vent

In the real world, I'd say it got knocked off somewhere. As it's a movie, that's probably what the prop department had that fit his head. For a reenactor, it looks "salty."

In both films why is Himmelstoss always shouting about obeying him as "your superior officer" when he is an Enlisted man?

I'd say, mostly because it's a movie and movie geeks don't get the differences between occifers and enlistoids.

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