German Army had 1.3 million conscripts and 2.4 million volunteers in the period 1935-1939 so odds are he signed up to be there.

Those numbers aren’t independent of each other. People about to be drafted will often volunteer to be in a military as a volunteer rather than a draftee, to get the waiting over with, etc.

For some value of 'joke'.

Fair, but it’s a meme thread. My initial thought was.

Pioneer: O panzer of the lake, why are our uniforms white? Panther: They must be easy to spot.

But, I tried to reach past the pun and failed.