i try to translate it part for part.... ill edit smth as i know more

-->pls move to Mil mottos...im sorry didnt see it

Pedites pugnas decernent --german infantry motto

Panzergrenadiere: "Dran, drauf, drüber" ( hard to translate: near,on and above)

Panzerfahrer: "Panzer hurra!" (Tanks hooray)

Panzerfahrer:
"Panzer - HURRA!" (Tanks HOORAY)
"Panzer - HURRA!" (Tanks HOORAY)
"Panzer - HURRA!" (Tanks HOORAY)
"Antennen - HOCH!" (antennas - HIGH)
"Luken - DICHT!" (hatches - ClOSED)
"Klar zum - GEFECHT!" (clear to COMBAT)


Heeresflieger(army aviator) "Heeresflieger - Nach vorn!" (Avaitors - FORWARD)

Kampfschwimmer (combat divers): "Lerne leiden ohne zu klagen" (Learn suffer without to complain )

Fallschrimjäger(Paratroopers) "Glück ab!"

Pioniere "Anker wirf"

Fernspäher( Recon, scouts) "oculus exercitus"
"Sehen, ohne gesehen zu werden" (See, without be seen)

Nachschubtruppe (supply troops) Nachschub - rollt! (supply rolls)

Transporttruppe Transport -rollt (transport rolls)

Panzerartillerie (Tank artillery) "Zu Gleich" (3fach) (All together )

Jägertruppe (Huntertroops) ,Gebirgsjägertruppe (Mountain troopers),Panzeraufklärer = "Horrido!" "Joho!"


Fernemelder "Verbindung - STEHT!" (connection ESTABLISHED!)
"Eloka ... Hurra!" (eloka = elektronischekampfmittel/electronic warfare)

Luftlandepioniere "Wir bewegen ALLES" (We move EVERYTHING)

Wachbataillon "Semper... Talis" (always watchful)

Flugabwehr "Flak -Feuer"" (Flak - FIRE)

Panzermörser "Ansetzen" "Achtung - Feuer"(3x)

Artillerie "Zu - Gleich" (All together)

Good ones there.

Nice ones!

Are those official mottos or battlecries?

Mostly battlecries..some are Mottos as far as i know,
its hard to get any german mottos
the battlecries/mottos ive got from soldiers in active duty or internet...

and if i want to know every motto i have to cruise around an visit every division....

How about: "Schweiss spart Blut" (sweat saves blood)?

Its a saying.....it means....If you sweat in the training you save blood on the battlefield

Originally Posted by filipino german

Its a saying.....it means....If you sweat in the training you save blood on the battlefield

Yes but that wasn't listed abowe and that's why i draw it to discussion. Only military related motto i learned in army and should be old german origin.

Yes as far as i know its has its origin in the east german army quotet by a NVA captain


Jeder Tropfen Schweiß, der in der Ausbildung in Friedenszeiten vergossen wird, spart Blut im Gefecht. Der Sieg über den Feind wird im Frieden geschmiedet."


Hauptmann der NVA W.Dietrich

Originally Posted by filipino german

Yes as far as i know its has its origin in the east german army quotet by a NVA captain


Jeder Tropfen Schweiß, der in der Ausbildung in Friedenszeiten vergossen wird, spart Blut im Gefecht. Der Sieg über den Feind wird im Frieden geschmiedet."


Hauptmann der NVA W.Dietrich

No, it should be far older since here that saying has already been used in WWII. I thought the origin should be in WWI german army or in Waffen SS.

aight well it was just what i knew in connection with the NVA
.....but i did some researches and it turned out it was a Erwin Rommel quote

"Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains saves both. "

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel