• @[email protected]
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    252 months ago

    My great grandmother’s garden railings were taken for the same reason in the UK. So it wasn’t really just a german thing

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Yep, and the metal was not weapons-quality so almost none of it was used as ‘advertised’ was mostly a propaganda thing to make people feel like they were helping.

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      2 months ago

      they then replaced many of these railings with regular mar materiel after the war. I’ve seen British fences made out of stretchers, rifle barrels, and cannon barrels