I only remembered having heard of it when you mentioned it... wouldn't have crossed my mind otherwise. Which doesn't mean a lot since I'm neither German (except by ancestry) nor do I live in Germany.
Like Steve the first thing I think about when I hear "88" in relation to something German or WWII is the (in)famous gun.
Actually one of my training buddies is former military (well a lot of them are) but we joke around a lot about me commanding a u-boat, and once when I mentioned sinking a ship with guns instead of torpedoes he was all interested in what kind of guns I had on my boat and I said "an 88-" and before I could finish his eyes got big and I had to stop and say "not THAT 88!"
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