Posted on 06/04/2015 9:03:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
As the German army was in retreat at the end of 1944 and the country starved, Hitler stashed away his precious liquor, where it lay hidden for 76 years - until now.
When restauranteur Silvio Stelzer bought a villa on the grounds of the splendid Wasserschloss Moritzburg estate in Saxony, the old seat of the royal family of Saxony, he knew he was moving into a place rich with history.
What he probably didn’t expect was to find quite such a wealth of historical treasure when renovating his grounds.
But Bild reported on Thursday that the well-known chef, who has opened a restaurant in the villa, found Hitler’s champagne and cognac collection in an underground chamber in the extensive gardens.
It's a surprising find for one of history's most famous diet obsessives - the Nazi dictator was a vegetarian, teetotal and a non-smoker.
A ledger found in the house shows how Hitler struck a deal with Prince Ernst Heinrich von Sachsen, who owned the palace at the time.
“At the end of 1944 Hitler had his wine cellar and delicatessens delivered into this underground labyrinth because the airstrikes had made Berlin unsafe,” Stelzer told Bild.
Soldiers delivered the dictator’s treasure, packed in hundreds of boxes on several trucks. Inside were salami, cheese, chocolate, cigarettes and other rare goodies.
“The prince received a special package full of delicacies from the Führer in return.
"None of the food is left. After May 8th 1945 the Russian troops plundered everything,” said Stelzer.
The chef added that he still doesn’t know what he will do with the discovered treasure.
Stelzer was unavailable for comment when The Local reached out to him.
News of the find adds to a spate of Hitler-related artifacts turning up in recent weeks, including bronze horses that once stood outside the Reich Chancellery found on the German black market and underwear alleged to have belonged to Hitler's mistress Eva Braun.
There's descendants from his half-brother Alois living in the U.S.
There’s an old saying: “Thank God you can pick your friends, because you’re stuck with your relatives”.
Ain't that the truth. Thank God I don't have many of them.
“You’d think anyone named “Hitler” would change their name.”
I once read about an American soldier in WW2 named Hitler. Someone asked if he was going to change his name. He said, “No, the other guy can change his!”
He was on something much worse. The Documentary "High Hitler" makes a good case that he had been dosing himself with methamphetamines since the mid 1930s.
A hidden chamber, no doubt, or they'd have looted it.
Wow. How would you like being saddled with such a name?
He didn’t need to. He was crazy enough without it.
Well, hell...market, promote and sell them at the restaurant for very expensive prices per glass (cognac) and bottle (champers).
No, No, you have the wrong map Ron Vibbentrop!
Many changed their names including Patrick.
A book like that would be difficult to read online.
Much easier to sign it out of the library and read at your own pace. Also free of charge.
It is extremely boring by all accounts.
Hitler’s surviving U.S. relatives by his half-sister swore a blood oath to each other to never have children of their own and thus make the demon gene die out.
But suppose a child was born in these times who was genetically identical to Hitler?
His rise to power was a combination of gigantic events prior to which Adolf Hitler was an abject failure. The World War, hyperinflation, social unrest & many other factors were what gave Hitler his opportunity.
A latter day Hitler would be as laughable as Mr. Hilter & Ron Vibbentrop & Heinrich Bimmler in the Monty Python sketch, complete with the Victrola on his bicycle playing Deutschland uber Alles.
Which means it would be a difficult read regardless of source. So might as well save a trip.
It was right next to his diaries.
One would, I would think.
Well of course. Family members of AH living in the US certainly would not want to do anything to attract attention. They were very low key and did everything they could to distance themselves and blend in discreetly.
I can imagine, though I find it amusing that "Patrick Hitler", while serving in the US Military, was asked if he was going to change his name, to which he replied, "No. I'm going to make the other guy change his. "
I admire the spirit, but that was never going to work.
Not really. This is a mangled re-report of a truly stupid BILD 'story' (even by their low, low standard). The only thing 'found' was some cellars were some cognac and champagne was stored toward the end of WW II. It's even mentioned that everything stored there was looted by Russian troops. NOTHING THERE TODAY. Guess that was too hard to comprehend for the re-reporter.
The original BILD non-story is little else than cheap publicity for the new owner of the place.
But this goes to show, again, how the gullible can be duped into believing almost anything.
That’s right. According to Wikipedia.com, Patrick Hitler did eventually change his name to Patrick Stuart-Houston.
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