"So let's quit doing the goosestep and get down to business," Bolan suggested.

They march the goosestep, file directly under the platform on which Hitler stands, and on, through a door, into the darkness beyond.

Asked whether he regretted the elimination of the goosestep, a uniformed officer said, "Of course, it looked better than just plain marching."

"We marched to the goosestep, we sang the party's songs, we used the swastika as a symbol, we were a proud German colony."

He turned to the right and, marching in the goosestep he had undoubtedly learned as a young man in the Red Army, walked to Oleg's position.

This march style is the official parade march in the armed forces of Bolivia and Ecuador and the military academies and schools of Venezuela, done with the goosestep during parades and ceremonies.

In an issue of The Simpsons Bongo comic when the British invade Springfield it shows John Cleese doing the goosestep and labels him as "the Minister of Silly Walks".

By contrast in East Berlin, the National People's Army of the soon-to-vanish German Democratic Republic has just abolished the goosestep, that knee-straining trademark of earlier German armies adapted from the French parade march by Prussia in 1726.