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* [[Ensign Newbie]]: Any time a young, inexperienced lieutenant is mentioned, you know he might as well be wearing a [[Red Shirt]].
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Several times the heroes find out about things that other Germans, or the Soviets, have done that repulse even these hardened killers. When they get a chance to show their disapproval in concrete form, it gets...messy.
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* [[A Father to His Men]]: Oberst Hinka (commanding officer of 27th Panzer), Lt Ohlsen, and of course The Old Un.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: When we find out about {{spoiler|Julius Heide's}} home life and background, or {{spoiler|Tiny gets a letter from home hoping he'll die soon so that his mother can collect on the government insurance on him}}, it's hard [[Tear Jerker|not to feel sorry for them]], even though one is a [[Jerkass]] and the other is often a bully.
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* [[Obligatory War Crime Scene]]: At some times, the heroes come across things that even they find repulsive.
** An aversion of this trope actually, because ''everyone'' commits atrocities in these novels (even on the Western front), rather than one obligatory war crime scene to avert accusations the creator is “glorifying war”.
* [[A Party - Also Known As an Orgy]]: Food, sex and booze is naturally an obsession to soldiers deprived of all three, and the unit shamelessly indulge themselves in wasteful bacchanalias whenever they have the opportunity.
* [[Plagiarism]]: ''The Commissar'' rips off ''[[Kellys Heroes|Kelly's Heroes]]'' (Tiny even uses Donald Sutherland's line: "Cut out those negative waves"), while ''Liquidate Paris'' has a chapter in which a black market pig is smuggled across occupied Paris, clearly taken from the French film ''La traversée de Paris'' (1956). Lines from ''A Farewell to Arms'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]] can be seen in ''Monte Cassino''.
* [[Playing Possum]]: Veteran soldiers never pass an enemy corpse without putting a bullet in it.
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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]].
* [[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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