The knife is no bayonet, because it's missing the socket (the German bayonets had a ring on one side of the guard), is too short and has the wrong blade. This is a Grabendolch, the typical knife of the Sturmtruppen. It was a simplified Nicker (a hunting knife) bought at first privately by the soldiers, because the 10 inch long bayonet was of little use in the close combat of trench warfare. Later the Grabendolch was issued by the army.
I love the details in Erica's pictures: The belthook on the grenade only present on the WW1 model, the ripcord dangling from the unscrewed end of the grip ...
@Garrus: They show only grim determination, not Tanya's demented joy IMO!
@sanitaeter is it even joy with that guy? More to the point, Tanya is 100% anarcho capitalist. I'd expect more of a national socialist stance here.
There were all kinds in the trenches of WW1. The grunt wasn't necessary right wing. There ironically was a majority of jews in the army, who never understood how the country they were fighting for could start a genocide against them 20 years later.
The knife is no bayonet, because it's missing the socket (the German bayonets had a ring on one side of the guard), is too short and has the wrong blade. This is a Grabendolch, the typical knife of the Sturmtruppen. It was a simplified Nicker (a hunting knife) bought at first privately by the soldiers, because the 10 inch long bayonet was of little use in the close combat of trench warfare. Later the Grabendolch was issued by the army.
Not to rain late on the party but most german bayonets didn't have muzzle rings. Only a few of the ersatz bayonets and some converted older stuff would've had them. The one in the image looks like an extremly cut down s.98n/a bayonet.
