I enjoy military pageantry of all eras but especially German stuff. I prowl You Tube for it. Particular favorites are the East German VolksArmee parades which used a lot of AKs and particularly for changing of the guard stuff, the SKS. Of course, as of October, 1990, they goose-stepped their last goose.

The Bundeswehr, or Federal German Army, uses a heck of a lot of 98Ks for drill teams and parades. In fact all of their ceremonial drill shows 98ks, exclusively. They have even marched a drill team in a parade in Moscow with them! My question is are these dummy guns, or perhaps old welded up WW-2 Wehrmacht.

BTW...They still do the torchlight parades, the Grosse Zapfenstreich, like the German armies of old. But their formal march today is a high kick like an American college band. I miss the old "Stritt Steffe!"