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- Alter - elder; superiors, usually the company commander
- Alter Mann - old man; with the Afrikakorps used for Italian meat-products (Fleischkonserven)
- Anschiß - crap on; criticism from superiors
- Bauchbinde - gut bind; belt
- Beutegermane - Booty-Teuton; foreign volunteer, also used for the Volksdeutsche (perhaps inferring that they were collaborating
exclusively for the benefits)
- Blechhut - sheet metal hat; helmet
- Donnerbalken - thunderbeam; latrine
- Eiserne Kuh - iron cow; canned milk
- Fahrkarte - a ticket; a miss, a shot that travelled into the distance
- Feldküchensturmabzeichen - field kitchen assault badge; the War Merit Cross
- Fernkampfmedaille - long distance fighting medal; the War Merit Cross (suggesting the holders were far from the actual fighting when they earned it)
- Feuerpause - cease fire; a cigarette break
- Fußlappenindianer - Footwrap Indian; Infantry
- Gebetsbuch - prayer book; a Hauptfeldwebel’s notebook
- Gefrierfleischorden - order of the frozen meat; the East Front Medal
- Gulaschkanone - goulash cannon; field kitchen
- Halseisen - neck iron; the Knight’s Cross
- Halsschmerzen - neck ache; had by someone who wants to earn the Knight’s Cross
- Heimatschuß - homeland shot; a light wound that would send a Soldier home
- Heldenkeller - Hero cellar; an air raid bunker
- Heldenklau - Hero thief; an officer who collects stragglers for redeployment
- Himmelfahrtskommando - Ride to heaven command; a deployment with little chance of survival
- hinrotzen - to sniff back one’s snot; get into hasty cover
- Hitlersäge - Hitler saw; an MG42
- HJ-Spätlese - vintage Hitler Youth; the Volkssturm
- Hoffnungsbalken - Hope bars; the tress on an officer candidate’s shoulder boards
- Horst Wessel Suppe - Horst Wessel Soup; Meat and other good things that “march along with in spirit”
- Hundemarke - dog tag; the German identity disc
- Intelligenzstreifen - intelligence stripes; stripes on the trousers of the general staff
- Itaka - Italienischer Kamerad; Italian Comerade
- Kantinenorden - Order of the Cafeteria; the War Merit Cross
- Kattun - cotton; or denim; to receive heavy fire
- Kettenhund - chain dog; a Feldgendarm (military police)
- Knarre - Rattle; rifle
- Koffer - suitcase; a heavy grenade
- Kolbenringe - piston rings; the double litzen on the arm of a Hauptfeldwebel
- Kriegverlägerungskreuz - War Displacement Cross; War Merit Cross (in other words, one who was displaced or removed from the war)
- Krüppelgarde - crippled gard; Volkssturm
- Lametta - tinsel; medals and tresse
- langmachen - to make long; take cover, lay down
- Latrinenparole - latrine passwords; gossip
- Lysol - a sharp schnapps drank by occupation troops in France
- Makkaroni - macaroni; an Italian
- Mündungsschoner - muzzle cap; a bad soldier
- Oberschnäpser - Oversnapper; an Obergefreiter
- Panzer-Anklopf-Gerät - Panzer knocking device; (as in knock at a door); term for the 37mm Pak 36
- Papieroffizier - paper officer; someone in a propaganda company
- Papiersoldat - paper soldier; someone in a clerical unit
- Pappkamerad - cardboard comrade; a human cutout for target practice
- Parteihut - party hat; helmet
- Partisanen - partisans; lice
- Querschläger - ricochet; an unpopular soldier
- Rabatz - to kick up a fuss; used for many unpleasant situations, great disorder, violent enemy fire
- Reichsheini - slang nickname for Reichsführer der SS Heinrich Himmler
- robben - crawl; slang for low crawling
- Rückgrat der Armee - Backbone of the Army; and Obergefreiter, also the experienced Landser
- Sandlatscher - sand traipser; an infantrymen (Afrika Korps)
- Schleifer - grinder; a brutal training officer, with tankers it also meant a Panzer in need of repair
- Schmalspuroffizier - narrow gauge officer; the Sonderführer ranks that wore narrow shoulder boards
- Schlumpfschütze - smurf soldier; a bad soldier
- Schütze Arsch - soldier ass; the last” and worst soldier
- Spiegelei - fried egg; the German Cross in Gold
- Spund - a young soldier or recruit
- Stalintorte - Stalin cake; stale bread
- stiften gehen - to move it; to flee
- Taschenflak - pocket Flak; a pistol
- Tiefflieger - strafer; , an idiot
- Untergefreiter - Under Gefreiter; (a non-existent German military rank); a civilian
- V3 - miracle weapon after the V1 and V2; derogatory for Volkssturm
- verheizen - to burn; to senselessly sacrifice soldiers
- Wanzenhammer - bug hammer; a pipe (also used to smack bugs with apparently)
- Wehrbeitrag - war contribution; to conceive a child during leave
- Zielwasser - prize water; schnapps
- Zigarettenbüchse - cigarette tin; the gas mask canister, which was usually used for other things
- Zwölfender - Twelver; a career soldier whose term is 12 years, especially used for a Stabsfeldwebel
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