Talk:Honour Chevron for the Old Guard

Fiction section
I started this up due to the extreme success of the film "Inglorious Bastards" and the almost cult status that Hans Landa has been accorded by World War II fans. Maybe we should change the section slightly, but in some manner we should mentioned that the character of Landa was also awarded this decoration. -OberRanks (talk) 21:31, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

List of recipients
This list is unneeded IMO. I'm preserving this material here by providing this link. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:51, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

"Winkelträger"
The current revision of the entry says, that the expression has a deeper meaning of "to carry" the Regime or the Party ("träger" could be translated as such.) and this is apparently well-sourced. However, I, being a native German who studies the subject for decades now, am strongly of the opinion that in this context, it is properly translated as "wearer", i.e. "angle/bracket-wearer", and that there is no such deeper meaning behind it. Granted, there is the possibility that some nazi paladin used such a metaphor in one of his/her grandiose speeches, but still, 99.9% (most definately not overdoing it here) of current and past Germans, then and now, would have just heard "angle/bracket-wearer". What to do? red (talk) 22:06, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * It is well sourced, but if you have an WP:RS source, which gives a different translation then it could be added. But, how it was used was slang and a metaphor. Kierzek (talk) 22:57, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thinking about it further, I just took it out as trivia. It was only a nick-name for a wearer and not official. Kierzek (talk) 04:45, 10 June 2018 (UTC)