Why were the German naming conventions for its OOB so weird and senseless? It seems that many divisions corps, army, brigades, etc... had random numbers attached to them instead of just having them in order, e.g. 1. Infanterie-Division, 2. Infanterie-Division...
by /u/Pashahlis in /r/AskHistorians
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