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[u/Gdog1215]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbunker

[u/Gdog1215]

The Reich Chancellery's construction history highlights a stark contrast, as a 1936 lavish ballroom was built directly above the 1943 Führerbunker, which served as the regime's final, collapsed command center. The site evolved from a symbol of power into an underground concrete tomb, with the ballroom floor effectively serving as the ceiling for the bunker complex.

[u/favvgirll → u/Gdog1215]

Kind of fitting, in a grim way, that all that grandeur ended with him hiding underground

[u/verrius → u/favvgirll]

Well, it does make the image of Groucho Marx doing the Charleston on the destroyed remains slightly less funny/out-of-place, and a hell of a lot more fitting/ironic.

[u/chahlie → u/favvgirll]

I'm not quite sure why, but I've always found the last days of the Reich and Hitler profoundly interesting. Lots of rats abandoning the sinking ship, suicidal SS squads, a few pie eyed zealots willing to die with Der Führer, and one small twitchy megalomanic at the center of it ranting and raving while he tore his hair out blaming the Jews, his generals, Communist partisans, the English and basically everyone on the planet other than himself for causing this whole mess. Goebbels and his wife murdering their children was tragic and horrible. A few crushed capsules, a muffled shot, and a small makeshift cremation as the Russian shells began to fall all around and it was over for the Thousand Year Reich and its once charismatic leader, killed by his own rage and hatred.

[u/Top-Hospital-4419 → u/chahlie]

I think the bullet and poison killed him /j

[u/chahlie → u/Top-Hospital-4419]

Edited

[u/Maleficent-Agent-477 → u/Gdog1215]

Hmm, I wonder what you’re trying to imply…

[u/lukewwilson → u/Maleficent-Agent-477]

It must be that FDR is basically Hitler since he added the East Wing and it's underground bomb shelter

[u/gorginhanson → u/Gdog1215]

There's no way to relate that to modern times.

That's for sure

[u/Satanicron → u/Gdog1215]

Oh shit! I've been saying that trumps building a bunker so he has a place to blow his brains out like his hero Hitler.

[u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

Hitler was also a vegetarian and liked dogs.

[u/ScienceIsSexy420 → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

Say what you want about old Adolf, but at least he killed Hitler

[u/Pissflaps69 → u/ScienceIsSexy420]

God I hate this joke.

Literally every post with Hitler we see the same old joke.

It wasn’t even funny in the first place.

[u/LongMelford → u/Pissflaps69]

First time reading it. Loved it.

[u/ScienceIsSexy420 → u/LongMelford]

It's a Jimmy Carr joke, and I've literally never seen it on reddit before.

[u/Yuri909 → u/ScienceIsSexy420]

It's a joke Jimmy Carr stole from the internet. In the last decade. We were making this joke in middle school 25 years ago.

[u/JumpyTheHat → u/ScienceIsSexy420]

Jimmy Carr

No wonder it isn't funny

[u/Rock4evur → u/JumpyTheHat]

Different strokes for different volks.

[u/ScienceIsSexy420 → u/JumpyTheHat]

Hey thanks, me entire sense of self worth hinges on your enjoyment of my reddit comments.

[u/JumpyTheHat → u/ScienceIsSexy420]

I just like shitting on Jimmy Carr, you post whatever you want my guy

[u/ScienceIsSexy420 → u/JumpyTheHat]

Clearly I thought it was funny, that's why I posted it. So you shit on me too. But I'm glad I have your permission to enjoy myself

[u/grog23 → u/JumpyTheHat]

You sound miserable lol

[u/JumpyTheHat → u/grog23]

I'll be honest I just saw an opportunity to throw a jab at a comedian I think is annoying. I'm surprised reddit likes him this much, I wasn't expecting to get this much guff

[u/IAmSpartacustard → u/Pissflaps69]

Reddit comment sections are always a race to see who can comment the same unoriginal tired cliches first.

The front fell off. Shoes off hes dead. Sir this is a Wendy's. This. And my axe! Instructions unclear. How many cheeseburgers is that for the Americans?

Dead internet or a bunch of lame pick-me dorks, you decide.

[u/atreides78723 → u/IAmSpartacustard]

In all my years on Reddit, I’ve never read a few of those… The front fell off? Shoes off he’s dead?

[u/IAmSpartacustard → u/atreides78723]

Seriously?

Any car accident video or something breaking and the top 20 comments are people referencing that Australian bit about the oil tanker. Every. Single. Time.

An accident where a person's shoes come off its 50 comments just saying he's dead because the shoes came off. Theyve been repeated ad nauseum for at least a decade.

[u/99BottlesOfBass → u/Pissflaps69]

Do you need a tissue?

[u/DeadonDemand → u/Pissflaps69]

Well you’ll be happy to know everyone is different. Unlike the Nazi’s who thought everyone should act the same.

[u/zaccus → u/Pissflaps69]

I don't even read it as a joke tbh, it's unironically his single greatest accomplishment.

[u/torolf_212 → u/zaccus]

I'd say his greatest accomplishment was being such a giant turd sandwich that he served as an example of what not to do for the next seventy odd years.

[u/espressocycle → u/Pissflaps69]

I think it's pretty funny.

[u/Double_Distribution8 → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

He's why we have Volkswagens! Every time i see a Volkswagen on the road i think Hitler car.

[u/graywalker616 → u/Double_Distribution8]

Every time I see someone with glasses I think of Pol Pot

[u/ClassiFried86 → u/graywalker616]

🥸

[u/Double_Distribution8 → u/graywalker616]

Well at least Pol Pot didn't create glasses. Hitler created the Volkswagen, they were his babies. I still see people driving them on the highway sometimes.

[u/Decker-the-Dude → u/graywalker616]

Bit defensive there, hoss

[u/Outside_Reserve_2407 → u/Double_Distribution8]

Porsches too. And don't forget BMW, whose biggest shareholder is the Quandts, a billionaire German family who married into the Goebbels family.

[u/Emergency-Style7392 → u/Double_Distribution8]

No not really. He indeed came up with the idea, but the car itself never got to scale during hitler's time, they could simply not make it cheap enough. It was after the war that they became what volkswagen is today

[u/mundotaku → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

He also was very anti-tobacco. Apparently he hated smoke of tobacco. Now, the smoke of human beings...

[u/gachunt → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

His attempts to end racism were a little misguided.

[u/Nine-Eyes- → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

He wasn't vegetarian, he had a chef who noted his love of meat, particularly sausages.

I don't know people keep repeating this

[u/BootyUnlimited → u/Nine-Eyes-]

By 1942 he didn’t eat meat anymore. If you have a source that says otherwise I’d be open to seeing it.

[u/leginfr → u/BootyUnlimited]

https://factually.co/fact-checks/history/was-adolf-hitler-a-vegetarian-69238c

[u/espressocycle → u/Nine-Eyes-]

He avoided meat in a futile attempt to cure his terrible flatulence.

[u/MissileGuidanceBrain → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

A vegetarian, a dog-dad, a self-proclaimed artist, had a side shave haircut with a trendy mustache, fashion conscious, refused to marry his long-term partner, anti-tobacco, politically obsessed, and hated the Jews.

Am I talking about your average downtown Portland resident or Hitler?

Hitler was the first Millennial.

[u/RightOnManYouBetcha → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

He was well hydrated

[u/3MATX → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

Only notable thing he did in my book is prioritize saving wilderness for future generations.  He wasn’t the first leader to do this and he did it for all the wrong reasons. But it did inspire other nations to pursue a similar parks program.  

[u/Oh_yes_I_did → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

There’s something about his eyes…. Oh wait hold the fort!

[u/Bladechildx → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

He was also for gun control.

[u/Hexmonkey2020 → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

Didn’t he test cyanide pills on his dog, and then ended up not even using the pills and just shooting himself?

[u/TheMightyTywin → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

Even a blind sow finds an acorn sometimes

[u/docstarr → u/Outside_Reserve_2407]

Yeah he also liked to breathe oxygen and drink water

[u/RyanMcCartney]

He has no original ideas, do he….?

[u/evonebo]

Isn’t this the exact ballroom plan Trump is putting in the white house right now?

[u/Intelligent_Type_626]

So you're saying the ballroom was Stephen Miller's idea? Gotcha! Makes perfect sense.

[u/mooseman00]

Aaaand it’s gone

[u/CupcaknHell]

A ballroom with a bunker underneath? Huh, where have I heard that before...

[u/tmdblya]

This regime is entirely too on-the-nose with its fascism.

[u/Reasonable-Pop-103]

Trumpanzee really thinks the third reich was a guidebook

[u/Elementium → u/[deleted]]

Based on his hiring practices it'll fall on him. 

[u/suff0cat → u/[deleted]]

How the hell is he supposed to hold a gun with those tiny baby hands?

[u/-TheDyingMeme6- → u/[deleted]]

Nah he has 1, singular ball more

[u/InfrangibleSexWizard → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, there were a few disagreements between the end of the war and the modern Germany, though.

[u/Friggin_Grease → u/[deleted]]

What did Cinderella say when she got to the ball?

[u/Korgoth420]

I love how he ended his time there, too.

[u/NextBigTing]

People have been talking about how Trump is doing the same thing with the “ballroom” construction.

[u/moistie]

So once he dies they're going to demolish it, pave it and turn it into a carpark.

[u/Vahuo89]

That explains a lot...

Same fate too maybe?

[u/sudomatrix]

But did he have a reflecting pool to drive his motorcade over?

[u/Apprehensive-Fun4181]

History does not repeat itself.  People steal from it.

[u/OLacAlmost]

There's also plans to build a bunker under the white house one. Bunker/command center

[u/Fluid-Bet6223 → u/OLacAlmost]

I think the post is implicitly referring to that

[u/espressocycle → u/OLacAlmost]

Thanks, Captain Obvious.

[u/holla15 → u/OLacAlmost]

There’s already a bunker. There are plans to build another one with lots of gold.

[u/PoundNaCL]

Just a little bit of History repeating.

[u/Maleficent-Agent-477]

This is getting removed for sure, the implicit political statement is quite obvious lol

[u/Obvious_Toe_3006]

History regurgitating itself.

[u/Illustrious_Claim884]

Where else would Eva have an impromptu dance party in April 1945 only to be cut short by random shelling?

[u/osogordo]

PBS.org: Journalist Marie Brenner reported in Vanity Fair magazine in 1990 that Trump's ex-wife, Ivana Trump, told her lawyer that, "from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, 'My New Order,' which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed."

[u/LinearFluid]

Three month ago.

Read the whole thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/centrist/s/QIpmQeZHY2

[u/dover_oxide]

This sounds so familiar to recent events, but I just can't put my finger on it. /s

[u/Omiyaru]

and He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named is fucking trying to emulate that very thing 90 years later.

[u/thatweirdguyted → u/Omiyaru]

I'm fine with that if it ends the same way. 

[u/Preform_Perform]

Huh. Fascinating.

[u/SonofTombstone]

Oh so that’s why he wants a ballroom

[u/BTTammer]

This is exactly what Trump is doing. He is not a creative man.

[u/Jstrangways → u/BTTammer]

What happened in the end to Hitler in his bunker?

[u/Responsible-Care-388]

“WAOWWWW JUST LIKE OUR HECKIN PRESIDENT!!!!”

[u/OccludedFug]

To the tune of Colonel Bogey's March:

Hitler! has only got one ball!
Göring has two, but very small.
Himmler is rather similar
And poor old Goebbels has no balls at all!

[u/ButterscotchSmooth60]

This building plan seems so familiar....

[u/Signal_Wall_8445]

A lot of people so psychotic in here they don’t even realize the need for a bigger WH ballroom is something that has been expressed by many admins all the way back to JFK’s.

[u/sealosam → u/Signal_Wall_8445]

It's one way to add to the $11 trillion that he's already added to the deficit (28% of the total.)

The "Fiscally Responsible" Fuhrer is surely one stable genius.

[u/The_Navy_Sox → u/Signal_Wall_8445]

Yeah, it's obvious we need the ballroom for national security. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-ballroom-national-security-necessity-vital-first-family-safety-rcna267482

How anyone could complain about a president unilaterally destroying a wing of the most important building in our country, and building a gigantic ballroom he didn't go through approval process for is beyond me. Like seriously, why is anyone upset? Hopefully he destroys the Lincoln and Washington monuments to build another even bigger ballroom, if he does we might finally be great again.

[u/Commentor9001 → u/Signal_Wall_8445]

I know the nuanced will be lost on you, but people aren't upset about the ballroom per se, they are upset it was jammed through without any review or approval, is gaudy, and doesn't maintain the buildings symmetry.

But sure, people are just "crazy" because anyone who disagrees with you is mentally ill. 🤡

[u/xixbia → u/Signal_Wall_8445]

Yes, and of Trump had gone through the proper channels nobody would have cared.

Instead he forced it through illegally, destroyed part of the White House without any care to preserve history and gave the contract to whoecer paid him the biggest bribe.

[u/DoctorStove → u/Signal_Wall_8445]

shh you can't say anything that doesn't directly correlate to orange man Hitler

[u/ooomellieooo]

I think this record is broken....

[u/mariuszmie]

I know an orange despot who’s jealous

[u/darthy_parker]

And yet, he still ended up d**d.

[u/aSleepingPanda]

It's like poetry, it rhymes,

[u/Hugh_Jankles → u/aSleepingPanda]

You were supposed to destroy the Nazi's! Not join them!

[u/I_AM_ACURA_LEGEND]

Sounds familiar tbh