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Originally Posted by Galahad
Looks very nice! Just don't go around telling people you are a "Deutschen" fallshirmjaeger, that is feminine plural. Deutsche Fallshirmjaeger would be better.
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Actually, you should say "Ich bin ein deutscher Fallschirmjaeger." There's a knack to blousing the FJ trousers correctly too - tie the cords off around the trouser hem over the tops of your boots (but not super tight) and then tuck the hems up and inside (as if you were using blousing bands). The old FJ used to actually wet the bottoms of their trouser legs, soap the insides and then ram a thin board down them to make them wider and floppier.
(I used to do FJ re-enactment and those tricks were taught to me by a couple of old FJ vets who stayed on in England after the war).