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Oh bullshit.Crossdressing was actually a popular pastime of Nazi soldiers, information I came across while looking for more info on the Weimar republic pre-WWII social attitudes on trans. It was.. honestly an unsurprising surprise, given the fascistic approach to enforcing/enacting 'trans rights!!' some of the cows here have. The trans movement is just sex stereotypes on speed, then make it an identity. And a reason to call women bitches (TERFs) and be a hero. Very progressive, love it
First of all it wasn’t crossdressing in the modern, sexual sense.
(Yeah, you can find pictures of Wehrmacht soldiers dressed as women, often POWs, and usually connected to a play or a talent show or something similar.)
Secondly, allied soldiers did the same. (Red army soldiers to a lesser extent, probably because they had far more actual women in support functions.)
It wasn’t anything sexual or degenerate but just men play acting for a night, because well… Who’s going to play the woman in a musical number or play if there aren’t any women nearby?
Part of the joke was a whole meta commentary on a soldier’s sacrifices: “We haven’t seen a woman for years because we’re serving our country. The closest thing we have to a woman is a dude in a dress, woes us!”
TLDR: It’s wasn’t crossdressing, it was a joke.