Posted on 07/31/2019 12:34:28 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Remote, hidden in dense forest, protected by nearby lakes and marshes - the Wolf's Lair in Poland was a secure headquarters for Adolf Hitler in World War Two.
So much so, that the Nazi dictator spent 850 days at the vast, secret complex in 1941-1944, before withdrawing to his Berlin bunker.
Now the Polish state's Srokowo Forest District, which manages the site, is giving the Wolf's Lair a big makeover to pull in more tourists.
The district's spokesman Sebastian Trapik told the BBC that the foresters were "making every effort" to maintain "due seriousness and respect for historical truth" at the crumbling complex.
But critics argue that insensitive "attractions", such as amateurish re-enactments with people wearing Nazi uniforms, could turn it into a sort of ghoulish "Disneyland".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Couldn’t list them all.
It was the same for me when I went to Warsaw and walked along the streets of the Ghetto, I knew the names by heart from all the years I studied the Holocaust, along Zelazna Street there were still some of the tenement buildings standing where they lived, and just stopped to think about those horrible years what must have been going on there.
Most people know that Berchtesgaden is in Bavaria, the ironic thing is, Bavaria is a unbelievably beautiful area, you think any minute that Julie Andrews and Von Trapp Family is going to show up from the movie “The Sound of Music”...but at the same time, it was to some degree home of the Nazi Party, Hitler and all the major Nazis had homes there all stocked with the stolen riches of their conquered land...
Hitler was Austrian, and the most fanatical Nazis tended to be Austrian.
You are absolutely correct. The incredibly fascinating history and evils permeate and leave an indelible impression.
“and now think of what might have happened if the same resources were used to invade England. “
They never had the capability. The Royal Navy was waiting to blast into the channel and murder them to pieces. The Royal Navy was no joke back then in that theater. The Grand Fleet was waiting.
Germany, like Russia, is never a great sea power due to geography.
A visit to Wolfs Lair would be interesting, just to see. The same thing as visiting Blechley Park, Los Alamos, Custer Battlefield, the Willow Run plant, the German Sub pens in France. the parade grounds at Nuremberg, Scapa Flow etc.
It really doesn’t mean one is a Nazi to go visit that site.
It’s just a renovation of a place that has been commonly visited since years, just like many similar sites across Europe. A German dude is spinning things as that’s what they do these days, they fight “Polish Nazis”. If they had any army, they would likely invade in order to protect the LGBT minority’s rights and to gain some Lebensraum for refugees.
“This, what the Poles are proposing is sick.”
It’s fake news and you fall for it like a mildly retarded child.
“They need to make sure there is only ever one costumed Hitler walking around...”
Feel free to donate your grandpa’s uniform !
If I did then so did a lot of others here, you asshole.
The polish snowflake is posting.
My grandfather was Irish, snowflake.
GOOD—Tyrants shouldn’t be forgotten! They shouldn’t rest in unmarked graves. Their many sins must be kept alive—lest others take up their mantel of hate! We must remember the past—the good, the bad and the especially the Ugly. Hitler is a memory—a cartoon Satan—to the people today who were born decades after his end. He must be seen as what he was—a great speaker, a twisted leader, and a man who brought death to many and destroyed his own land and others. His crimes must be known to people today.
GOOD—Tyrants shouldn’t be forgotten! They shouldn’t rest in unmarked graves. Their many sins must be kept alive—lest others take up their mantel of hate! We must remember the past—the good, the bad and the especially the Ugly. Hitler is a memory—a cartoon Satan—to the people today who were born decades after his end. He must be seen as what he was—a great speaker, a twisted leader, and a man who brought death to many and destroyed his own land and others. His crimes must be known to people today.
GOOD—Tyrants shouldn’t be forgotten! They shouldn’t rest in unmarked graves. Their many sins must be kept alive—lest others take up their mantel of hate! We must remember the past—the good, the bad and the especially the Ugly. Hitler is a memory—a cartoon Satan—to the people today who were born decades after his end. He must be seen as what he was—a great speaker, a twisted leader, and a man who brought death to many and destroyed his own land and others. His crimes must be known to people today.
The fear of “Nazis” increases as the distance from the NSDAP’s time in history does as well.
It’s a very interesting phenomenon.
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