History Characters / Sturmtruppen

* BestServedCold: All captains suffered the idiocy of the second lieutenant without being able to properly punish him, and at one point even having to see him promoted to full lieutenant, due [[{{Nepotism}} the fool being the son of a feldmarshall. Then one day he was told an inspection was coming and he had to assign the inspecting officer a second lieutenant as assistant, and as they couldn't just point out they didn't have a second lieutenant anymore and make the high command look like fools the captain had the fictional officer added to the roster and ''made the lieutenant responsible for anything he did'', forcing him to run himself ragged to do his own job and that of the non-existing officer. [[spoiler:It ends up with the fictional officer being promoted... And the captain reassigning the lieutenant's tent to the newly promoted officer, throwing him out until Helga offers to share her tent]].

* UndeadTaxExemption: He's legally dead (he had tripped while bringing boiling coffee to the general and told everyone that he [[ExactWords fell heroically in the course of his duty]], and the bureaucracy took him at his word), and [[RealityEnsues after losing all his possessions as his heirs claimed the inheritance and his postion in the Fascist party]] and risking starving to death because the cook never got rations for him he managed to get reinstated in the ranks as the "Soul of a Fallen Hero".

** CrazyAwesome: His cocktail is strong enough that a single cocktail glass of it can be used as a MolotovCocktail... As he demonstrated on an enemy tank. It's also hinted that his constant inhebriation is part of the reason of his awesomeness, as he was so drunk to allucinate enemy bullets were wasps during the machine gun stunt.

* NiceHat: He always wears a chef's hat over his head rather than his helmet. In one strip an officer has him punished for not wearing the helmet like everyone else... and the cook answered by serving the officer the cooked chef's hat, prompting the latter to forget about the punishment.
* TheResenter: {{Implied}}: in his earliest appearances he didn't cook that bad, but then the first story arc where he had a good role has him rant how all his efforts to prepare good meals for the troop had just been made meaningless by the soldiers liking the dirty laundry water, and from then on he becomes a LethalChef.

* LargeHam: When revealing the identity of his greatest medical idol. Aka: Van Helsing the Vampire Slayer. (complete with background lightning).

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: When he believes himself to be invisible. It backfires once when a soldier, pretending to not see him performs a GroinAttack with a cigarette.

* RefugeInAudacity: This man once falsified and sold ''Mussolini's diaries'' to pay a creditor that would have murdered him if he failed to pay his debt... And it's nowhere near the most outrageous stunt he pulled.

* SmokingIsCool

* LethalChef: From his deadly cauldron came out things like: dried pea soup (there's no water), frozen solid soup (during winter), soup made from motor oil and boiled tires, salad made from tree leaves, dirty laundry water (which was actually well received), corpses, living ferocious spaghetti, cholera, a concoction that turns soldiers into hairy monsters and a blob-like abomination that fed on soldiers.

* NiceHat

* LeanAndMean
* OnlySaneMan

* AFatherToHisMen: Greatly cared for his soldiers, casually risking his life to protect them.

* ThePigPen: He doesn't know why there's water in the bath tub and what's the purpose of soap. His attendants are forced to use sandpaper and acids just to carve throught the outer layers and when they're done with that, Is revealed that he lose something like 6 pounds of dirt.

* ButNotTooForeign: A sergeant is named Giuseppe, hinting he's actually Italian (the German version would have been Joseph).

* BlackComedy

* ThoseTwoBadGuys

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Is openly racist. While offering to help the SS Execution Squad could have been part of his MilesGloriosus antics, telling the Ally of the Rising Sun is "short, yellow and is bowlegged" ''to his face '''acting like he wasn't there'''''' is not.

* DrivenToSuicide: Musolesi tries to persuade him to commit {{Seppuku}}. After a talk with the Captain, he realize that he doesn't need to spill [[ExactWords ''his own blood'']] to clean the offense.... and then start chasing Musolesi waving his sword around.

* UnfriendlyFire: A few sergeants have been murdered by their soldiers at the first chance, with one escaping said fate when a soldier put a rattlesnake in his mess kit and the Sergeant [[BigEater mistook it for an eel, ate it, and asked for more]].

* RefugeInAudacity: This man once falsified and sold ''Mussolini's diaries'' to pay a creditor that would have murdered him if he failed to pay his debt.

* VolleyingInsults: With the italian ally.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the earlier strips there were two doctors, the quirky and [[TheGhost never seen]] Doktor Von Barnard and the unnamed hospital director who has to suffer the anger caused by his antics.

The grumpy and mostly serious captain of the Battalion (though it's implied that there are several captains), arguably he's the sanest character in the comic. Like all the higher officer he's tall and lean with hawkish nose and eyes obscured by the cap's visor.

* GeneralRipper: In his early incarnations.

* MolotovCocktail: He uses one to take down an enemy tank.
* NoodleIncident: According to the guys of the 27th Battalion, he was their Colonel but he lose his rank because "he was a bit naughty".

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: They help Private Otto with his "romantic relationship". Though they mainly did it to screw over the Sergeant.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He's in Mussolini's confidence, and has no qualms taking advantage of it.

* UndeadTaxExemption: He's legally dead (he had tripped while bringing boiling coffee to the general and told everyone that he [[ExactWords fell heroically in the course of his duty]], and the bureaucracy took him at his word), and [[RealityEnsues after losing everything he owned as his heirs claimed the inheritance]] and risking starving to death because the cook never got rations for him he managed to get reinstated in the ranks as the "Soul of a Fallen Hero".

* {{Badass}}: When the sergeant ordered them to remove the fuzes from unexploded shells they did it with ''bottle openers'', smoking and chatting with the awed witnesses all the time. This is ''one'' of the many awesome things they did.
** HadToBeSharp: They often mention the Legreis Correction Center and how hard things were there, including how they took a year out of their sentences for every fifteen bombs they defused. One had been sentenced to 125 years, and the other for ''life''.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: they help Private Otto with his "romantic relationship". Though they mainly did it to screw over the Sergeant.

* BadassBoast: "I'll crush you all like wasps!!" said to the enemy's shower of bullets all around him [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome while standing still on the trench's border and facing them.]]

* UndeadTaxExemption: He's legally dead (he had tripped while bringing boiling coffee to the general and told everyone that he [[ExactWorld fell heroically in the course of his duty]], and the bureaucracy took him at his word), and [[RealityEnsues after losing everything he owned as his heirs claimed the inheritance]] and risking starving to death because the cook never got rations for him he managed to get reinstated in the ranks as the "Soul of a Fallen Hero".

* SmallNameBigEgo: Big time.