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* [[Glory Hound]]: Several of the COs whom the 27th get fit this trope. Others like Hauptmanns’ Meier and von Pader are more [[The Neidermeyer]] type, along with Hauptfeldwebel Hoffman.

* [[Got Volunteered]]: This happens several times, once taking the soldiers all the way to {{spoiler|Moscow on a commando mission}}.

* [[If You Die I Call Your Stuff]]: In the Old Un's unit the possessions of a dead colleague always belong to his fellow soldiers, with wills being drawn up over particularly valued items. Sometimes a soldier near death will have his pistol removed, as it would only be stolen by a medical orderly, but as the soldier is often aware of this happening it only hastens his demise. In a (somewhat) more humorous example, Heide collapses after a fight and Tiny eagerly goes to salvage his gold teeth, but is so disappointed when Heide turns out to be still alive that he has to hand over everything in his pockets to avoid being beaten up.

* [[If You Die, I Call Your Stuff]]: In the Old Un's unit the possessions of a dead colleague always belong to his fellow soldiers, with wills being drawn up over particularly valued items. Sometimes a soldier near death will have his pistol removed, as it would only be stolen by a medical orderly, but as the soldier is often aware of this happening it only hastens his demise. In a (somewhat) more humorous example, Heide collapses after a fight and Tiny eagerly goes to salvage his gold teeth, but is so disappointed when Heide turns out to be still alive that he has to hand over everything in his pockets to avoid being beaten up.

* [[Insert Grenade Here]]: The protagonists seldom have a panzerfaust or anti-tank gun when they need one. There are frequent references to tying bundles of hand grenades or Molotov cocktails together for this purpose.

** The standard German "potato-masher" hand grenade was in fact designed for this purpose - six grenade heads could be fitted to a complete seventh to make a single "supergrenade" - and there was an established drill for this purpose.

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* [[Rasputinian Death]]: Whenever Porta et al decide to murder someone as a result of their black market activities, there invariably follows an entire chapter of bungled attempts which end in the victim either dying by accident or just going insane.

* [[Royal We]]: Gregor Martin always describes his [[The Nameless|unnamed]] [[General Ripper]] this way (e.g. "my general and our monocle") right up to the moment the general commits suicide ("And then we shot ourselves!") after which he's described normally.

* [[Screw the War ~~Were~~ Partying]]: Sometimes the soldiers manage to get their hands on huge supplies of food and booze. The result is usually [[A Party - Also Known As an Orgy]].

* [[Screw the War, We're Partying]]: Sometimes the soldiers manage to get their hands on huge supplies of food and booze. The result is usually [[A Party - Also Known As an Orgy]].

* [[Shot At Dawn]]: 2 Section carries out several executions, including one in which they're forced to shoot the only general they've come to respect.

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: ''SS General'', ''Court Martial'' and ''Assignment Gestapo'', in which dedicated officers end up being executed -- usually after long periods of mistreatment in prison -- for refusing to throw away their soldiers' lives in a meaningless [[Last Stand]].

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