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Sweden and Chile


Fritz

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Sweden and Chile - an ancient monarchy and a modern banana republic, what a contrast, and in uniforms and helmets "made in Germany style", rather ridiculous, I don't think Kaiser Wilhelm would have been amused.

 

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I seem to remember Franco's body guards wore pickelhaube style helmets as well.

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I think they are still around, now the horseguard of the King of Spain, they look rather like chromed pots with a white horsehair plume, not the elegant, symetrical form of their Prussian predecessors. As well as with a lance and a white lancer-style tunic, bit of "Stilbruch" (not matching), as they would say here.

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