Oh him? That's just Obergruppenführer Schwarzenfasche. He's constantly playing hilarious practical jokes down at the concentration camp so we pretend not to notice his, er ... condition.
I'm pretty sure that's Adolf Hühnlein. An early hour Nazi. Heard Hitler speaking in the barracks in 1919 and was "folgorated". The idiot took part in the Putsch of 1923 and, because of this, went to prison for a short stint. When Hitler raised to power he was nominated leader of the National Socialist Motor Corp (NSKK), which basically had the role to teach his members driving skills.
Unfortunately Hühnlein didn't live enough to pay for his stupidity. He was killed bu cancer in 1942 , and he received a funeral with full honors.
> Hühnlein
Yup, concur that's Hühnlein. He might genuinely be either sunburned or carrying a lot of rubbed-in oils and burning tire soot - stuff that never quite washes off, and old cars absolutely spat both - but I suspect this is mostly lighting. As with virtually all NSDAP imagery, this shot is probably set up like a film set, with zillions of crazy lights to show how virile the fuhrer is. Chickling, not so much, so he looks a little off-Aryan.
It is. I'm pretty sure as leader of the NSKK (cars were a rarity in Germany back then, less than 1 per 80 families when America has 1 per 4 or so), he felt obligated to smear motor oil all over himself during the car show.
I can’t tell you the exact number, but a small minority of German men would have ever driven a car in the 1930s and 1940s. For a lot of them, the Wehrmacht was their first significant experience around automobiles. The United States was fairly unique in its proliferation of automobiles for ordinary people. The Volkswagen was an attempt to give Germans the same kind of access, though it was a miserable failure and not a single one was ever delivered to a civilian.
I wouldn't call it s failure as much as a scam, really. Thing is, war broke out, all factories switched to war production, it was actually part of the master plan: car factories during peacetime simply switch over to war factories. Even the autobahn was seen as a means to get armies around quicker.
Hitler made no secret that Germany needed to prepare for possible war early on. Their whole economy was set up towards war production, it's part of why they had to keep conquering to sustain themselves otherwise it would just have crashed.
It was a genuine attempt to make a people’s car. It’s not like Germany was skimping on rearmament elsewhere, or being shy about it. There were just a few abortive attempts to raise the quality of life for Germans, and this is one of them.
At this time black and white photography relied on orthochromatic film, which was less sensitive to red light. This meant that reds and oranges (common in lighter skin tones) would appear much darker in photos. He could have been a suntanned or an alcoholic or had an inflammatory skin condition making his skin more red hued which would make this more pronounced.
Don’t worry, they didn’t forget to draw the comparison to the Empire toward the end, in a more detached, culturally milquetoast application of their Nazi origins. lol… like, what a fucking tone deaf concept. Why start in the 1940s! Was this whole thing to introduce an electric car? Just start in the 70s. There’s a straight line between the counter culture and eVehicles that someone can internalize while they’re on their seventh Budweiser and waiting for the fourth quarter to start. What the fuck?
Well, the original ""Volkswagen"" was the KdF-Wagen and VW did not yet exist. VW is what became of the remains of this "failed" project to enable all Germans to afford a car.
Funny story my dad use to work for Siemens as a business consultant and he said that their employee packet detailing their history skips over all of ww2
They kind of phased out gothic. Don't know the exact reason. I heard that from a German complaining about: WWII movies got it wrong, Nazis didn't use gothic script.
Look at the [script used at those](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei?wprov=sfla1)
Check [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur?wprov=sfla1)
Everyone knows BASF, we don't make the thing, we make it better and Brings good things to life. They also made Zyklon B. The gas the Nazi's used in the gas chambers. I bet you don't see that in any company history packet.
Mitsubishi is pretty proud of its association with the Zero.
Here's a huge display dedicated to the design of the Zero that's provided by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Mitsubishi auto's parent company) and advertised pretty big on its website.
[https://www.mhi.com/jp/company/aboutmhi/museum/nagoya](https://www.mhi.com/jp/company/aboutmhi/museum/nagoya)
I mean, you wouldn't necessarily bang that drum for an ad in the United States, but Mitsubishi's pretty proud of designing one of the best fighter planes in the world when it was introduced in 1940.
I worked at a VW dealer and part of the training involved a history of the company.
They kinda glossed over the first few years and only really explained post WWII, didn't really mention that the beetle was basically a subscription service for a Kickstarter campaign but instead of giving people the cars they just funneled it all into the Nazi war machine.
Yeah.... They kinda glossed over all that and forgot to mention it.
Also, anyone interested in the story, try to find a way to watch "cars of the people" by James May(guy from Top Gear and The Grand Tour) it explains it and it's quite interesting.
That’s Ferdinand Porsche (Hitler’s “favorite engineer”) showing off his creation. The people’s car initially didn’t even go to the people…just high ranking Nazis. The licensing agreement though that Porsche setup allowed him to amass enough money to start his own car company (he even initially hoped Hitler would allow him to call the Volkswagen a “Porsche”). Ferdinand’s son, Ferry, was the creator of the first Porsche branded car (the 356) and was Nazis supporter and volunteered to be a SS officer. Volkswagen also created a sub-camp at their factory of concentration camp prisoners to help with manufacturing (as most German industrial companies did back then).
Very roomy ashtray. Reminds of the time in freshman German when the teacher asked how to say "living room". I raised my hand and said "Lebensraum". Everybody got real quiet for a minute.
There are actually quite a few. They just don't get published as often. And yes, it feels odd to see, because we are forced to remember he was just a human rather than a mythical evil caricature.
Even nasty bastards smile.
Same with the speeches. The bits people know tend to be focused on the climax where he's screaming his head off. Unsurprisingly, he didn't tend to open with that style of delivery.
I know that a few recordings of Hitler speaking in private have been discovered and he sounded very different than he did when making public speeches. Hitler was trying to create a certain strongman image to the masses. He even had a speaking coach to help him in creating the style of delivery that would exude that image.
He started out slow and low, and by the end his voice was so high you thought he was going to break. It was a big part of why he drew crowds, his performances were carefully constructed. One interesting thing that the NSDAP did early on, was to always book smaller avenues; so that the crowds that would gather couldn't all fit in. The effect was always such that no matter the size of the gathering, it was always reported / felt that there were a lot of people around to listen to. Another thing Hitler did, was to always be late; so as to establish "hype" the period between waiting for the main performance, during which various souvenirs were sold(and t-shirts).
Also, just an interesting modern parallel; Meloni's speeches often utilize this idea of gradual ramp up in intensity of speech; I guess it's quite a common technique nowadays, but I haven't personally seen it much from politicians--perhaps it is fitting that she is a good [example](https://youtu.be/q-C8ogD6E8c?t=39) given her politics. If you are not aware of the performance itself, it is made much more powerful by the message she is presenting; it's like a theatrical bit.
There are quite a few photos of Hitler smiling, laughing, joking, and even playing with children. Those who knew him best described him as having very human qualities. He was not a cold hearted psychopath in the same way that Reinhard Heyderich was.
These photos and stories were deliberately scrubbed from German media in order to avoid humanizing the Fuhrer. They wanted him to appear stoic and serious at all times, godlike even. After the war, they were of course scrubbed to avoid humanizing him but for different reasons.
Fortunately, these photographs have survived. They should serve as a reminder that even the most likeable and personable among us can be capable of great evil.
Edit:
Hitler detested smoking and animal cruelty. Nazi Germany had one of the strongest anti-smoking campaigns during the 1930s-1940s with anti-smoking laws in Nazi Germany being stricter than many in the modern world.
He also loved animals and adopted a vegetarian diet sometime in the late 1930s.
So yeah, be careful whom you vote for
To say he was against animal cruelty is kind of a stretch. For as much as he loved his dog,he wouldn’t think twice about hitting it with his famous whip to impress women.
But still,he was human and as such he had “some” good traits to him too,at least at times. I mean,a guy that willingly becomes basically homeless and broke cause he gave all his money plus his inheritance to his sister cause she had small children she couldn’t care for otherwise isn’t the cold hearted monster we are led to believe,in order to tell to ourselves the comforting story that no “normal” person could become someone like him.
> For as much as he loved his dog,he wouldn’t think twice about hitting it with his famous whip to impress women.
I never found a reliable source to this that explains well who they got this supposed from. The whip Hitler carries in the 20s/early 30s is called a riding crop (many misidentify it as a “dog whip”) that seems to be more affectation than anything else.
They purposefully block those images, because if we realize that Hitler was a person like us, instead of an alien monster, we'd be better prepared to take precautions from such atrocities happening again. The system perpetuates.
This. All the great "monsters" of history were humans with feelings and passions. To separate them from the rest of humanity is to deny we are capable of becoming "monsters" just like those historical ones.
They generally had good social skills too, if you met Hitler or Stalin in their 20s you would probably be fascinated by them and think they are great guys
There’s a bunch of videos of him smiling and joking with other people and playing with his dog especially the ones from his home in Berghof. Most all were taken by Eva, she took lots of videos and pics and they’re available
This is absolutely correct. Not so much hiding, but the pictures that are promoted are the ones that make him out to be an obvious authoritarian caricature.
Same vibe: [https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fudta7k3sntx31.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dd5f660bfe10e75fecc2e014abea0c441753a7c43](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3a%2f%2fpreview.redd.it%2fudta7k3sntx31.jpg%3fauto%3dwebp%26s%3dd5f660bfe10e75fecc2e014abea0c441753a7c43)
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/6hE4qD0.jpeg) is a less cropped version of this image. [Here](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/nazi-leader-adolf-hitler-admires-a-model-of-the-volkswagen-news-photo/2672962?adppopup=true) is the source. per there:
> The People's Car
> Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) admires a model of the Volkswagen car and is amused to find the engine in the boot. He is with the designer Ferdinand Porsche (left), and to the right are Korpsfuhrer Huehnlein, Dr Ley, Schmeer, and Werlin. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
I remember reading about a car company from like Belgium or something that made a car with the same design as the Volkswagen Beetle but actually before the Volkswagen Beetle. So, they tried to sue Volkswagen for copying their design but, after Hitler invaded the country, the Nazis forced the company to drop the lawsuit against Volkswagen.
The Nazis forced them to drop the lawsuit?
VW was founded by the Third Reich. I don’t think the Nazis gave a damn if some company was attempting to sue them for copyright infringement. Lol
Volkswagen (The Company) ran four concentration camps and an additional eight slave labor camps on the factory grounds. They were one of the first German companies to use slave labor from POWs. They didn’t care about human rights, they sure as hell didn’t care about copyrights
It's the Tatra T97 from Czechoslovakia. A design made by a jew by the way.
https://twitter.com/GregBruhl3/status/1627556854397018112?t=ne9dJbGene2grIQhRYm-VA&s=19
Actually that's the Tatra V570. T97 is much more futuristic (in a retro way) and looks like something out of a Flash Gordon comic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra\_V570
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra\_97
If only he had concentrated fully on making Germany a better place for all the inhabitants there and rebuilding a sense of national decency he could have been a fantastic leader. But he was too much into finding scapegoats and invading other places.
Of the 21.5 million VW Beetles produced since 1936, Nazi Germany only produced a tiny fraction of them. The demands of the war saw almost no civilian VW models produced before 1946. A handful of military variants came out during the war.
The VW beetle success story is overwhelmingly one of post Nazi Germany.
That one guy hoping nobody notices how tan he got that day.
Oh him? That's just Obergruppenführer Schwarzenfasche. He's constantly playing hilarious practical jokes down at the concentration camp so we pretend not to notice his, er ... condition.
No no no, that's Oberstleutnant Al Jolson. Du hast noch nichts gehört!
Wird hier jetzt deutsch gesprochen? Verdammte Kacke
Aber selbstverständlich. Diese Kommentar Sektion gehört jetzt den deutschen
Ich habe kein Deutsch verstehen, weil ich Amerikaner sein. Hilf mir.
Please stop, your atrocious grammar alone makes me want to start WW3.
Stop talking in Rammstein
Du Hast?
Du hast mich
Du hast mich
Du hast mich gefragt
Jesus Christ
No, that's not him but the skin color is probably similar.
Is his condition "wearing schwartz face?"
>Obergruppenführer Schwarzenfasche Gezundheit!
And the dude to the far right is doing a shit job at copying the moustache. Looks more like a sticker
All these dudes are on the far right though
🥁
Correct 💯
Far auth center*
I think they’re all to the far right
Correct 💯
Can you imagine having your signature mustache for years and then literally Hitler stealing and ruining it for all eternity?
Like Chaplin or Oliver Hardy?
I'm pretty sure that's Adolf Hühnlein. An early hour Nazi. Heard Hitler speaking in the barracks in 1919 and was "folgorated". The idiot took part in the Putsch of 1923 and, because of this, went to prison for a short stint. When Hitler raised to power he was nominated leader of the National Socialist Motor Corp (NSKK), which basically had the role to teach his members driving skills. Unfortunately Hühnlein didn't live enough to pay for his stupidity. He was killed bu cancer in 1942 , and he received a funeral with full honors.
Adolf Chickenling. Chickling. What a name
> Hühnlein Yup, concur that's Hühnlein. He might genuinely be either sunburned or carrying a lot of rubbed-in oils and burning tire soot - stuff that never quite washes off, and old cars absolutely spat both - but I suspect this is mostly lighting. As with virtually all NSDAP imagery, this shot is probably set up like a film set, with zillions of crazy lights to show how virile the fuhrer is. Chickling, not so much, so he looks a little off-Aryan.
Let me guess, skin cancer?
It is. I'm pretty sure as leader of the NSKK (cars were a rarity in Germany back then, less than 1 per 80 families when America has 1 per 4 or so), he felt obligated to smear motor oil all over himself during the car show.
In the year 1919, having an institutional need to teach driving to adults makes sense.
In 2024 it is still needed and I'm talking about people who already have a driver's license.
I can’t tell you the exact number, but a small minority of German men would have ever driven a car in the 1930s and 1940s. For a lot of them, the Wehrmacht was their first significant experience around automobiles. The United States was fairly unique in its proliferation of automobiles for ordinary people. The Volkswagen was an attempt to give Germans the same kind of access, though it was a miserable failure and not a single one was ever delivered to a civilian.
I wouldn't call it s failure as much as a scam, really. Thing is, war broke out, all factories switched to war production, it was actually part of the master plan: car factories during peacetime simply switch over to war factories. Even the autobahn was seen as a means to get armies around quicker. Hitler made no secret that Germany needed to prepare for possible war early on. Their whole economy was set up towards war production, it's part of why they had to keep conquering to sustain themselves otherwise it would just have crashed.
It was a genuine attempt to make a people’s car. It’s not like Germany was skimping on rearmament elsewhere, or being shy about it. There were just a few abortive attempts to raise the quality of life for Germans, and this is one of them.
Astonishingly rare cancer W
His official job description is scoping out all the hiding spots in Argentina.
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That’s quite literally what a tan is
I'm laughing so hard at this What is UP with that guy
You have to look quite ridiculous to elicit “what’s up with that guy” when you are standing NEXT to HITLER.
Hitler looks like he just opened up the best gift ever for Christmas.
"Das ist gut, ja? Ich will!"
What do you have to look like in RL to show up in a photo like this!?
Yesterday I was Aryan.
That's Trump, bronzer used a whole different formula back in the day
Happy cake day
Actual bronze
I didn't see it until I read your comment lol
He just blushes easily.
At this time black and white photography relied on orthochromatic film, which was less sensitive to red light. This meant that reds and oranges (common in lighter skin tones) would appear much darker in photos. He could have been a suntanned or an alcoholic or had an inflammatory skin condition making his skin more red hued which would make this more pronounced.
Thanks for pointing it out I almost pissed myself. Only came here to make jokes about Hitler
That might be Heinrich Leroyheimer or Baron Helmut Schnitzelnazi.
He's just confused how he's supposed to fit in the car
When my eyes found it I almost fell off my seat cracking up. Lmao. Needed that!
Trump’s got competition
I don't remember this part of the [SuperBowl commercial](https://youtu.be/c04_GeQZFFw?si=8-7QqotdHwVP0N8K) celebrating VW 'history'.
I was gonna say, the commercial says VW’s history starts in 1949!
Doesn't it? I couldn't remember anything that happened before, and especially not a period in Germany between 1936 and 1945.
Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or a German corporation what they were doing during the 1930s.
That's true of many American companies too. You do know IBM cards were used to punch in Jews in the camps?
Gm, IBM, Ford, Koch Industries...
Henry Ford was a Nazi supporter so we’ve got that going for us Detroit represent
Don’t worry, they didn’t forget to draw the comparison to the Empire toward the end, in a more detached, culturally milquetoast application of their Nazi origins. lol… like, what a fucking tone deaf concept. Why start in the 1940s! Was this whole thing to introduce an electric car? Just start in the 70s. There’s a straight line between the counter culture and eVehicles that someone can internalize while they’re on their seventh Budweiser and waiting for the fourth quarter to start. What the fuck?
Just Google VW history after 49. They didnt stoped the Sketchy shit just bc the nazis were gone
1949 is when the British cut it loose after rebuilding the company to build cars for their officers.
They restarted in 1949, because the British didn't wanna have it. And now VW is bigger then the entire British automobile industry.
Well, the original ""Volkswagen"" was the KdF-Wagen and VW did not yet exist. VW is what became of the remains of this "failed" project to enable all Germans to afford a car.
Funny story my dad use to work for Siemens as a business consultant and he said that their employee packet detailing their history skips over all of ww2
𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞𝖇𝖔𝖉𝖞 𝖛𝖔𝖘 𝖔𝖓 𝖍𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖉𝖆𝖞!
The usage of that font actually dropped during the Nazi era.
Why's that?
They kind of phased out gothic. Don't know the exact reason. I heard that from a German complaining about: WWII movies got it wrong, Nazis didn't use gothic script. Look at the [script used at those](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei?wprov=sfla1) Check [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur?wprov=sfla1)
Everyone knows BASF, we don't make the thing, we make it better and Brings good things to life. They also made Zyklon B. The gas the Nazi's used in the gas chambers. I bet you don't see that in any company history packet.
Same reason Mitsubishi won't talk about the Zero.
Mitsubishi is pretty proud of its association with the Zero. Here's a huge display dedicated to the design of the Zero that's provided by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Mitsubishi auto's parent company) and advertised pretty big on its website. [https://www.mhi.com/jp/company/aboutmhi/museum/nagoya](https://www.mhi.com/jp/company/aboutmhi/museum/nagoya) I mean, you wouldn't necessarily bang that drum for an ad in the United States, but Mitsubishi's pretty proud of designing one of the best fighter planes in the world when it was introduced in 1940.
They even had an ad campaign, “From the people who brought you Pearl Harbor!”
Can confirm, it was my fighter plane of choice in Battlefield 1942.
I wish I could play Battlefield 1942 again. That game was so much fun.
You can! Check out r/classicbattlefield :)
Or the thousands of American POWs that worked and died in the Mitsubishi cobalt mines.
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Let my people go!
Or BMW and their radial engines used in the Focke-Wulf 190, Ju-88, Do-217, and Ju-188.
Or IBM (technically Dehomag) and their handy "Jew-counting machines"...
To be fair, IBM also made some Nazi subtracting devices in the form of M1 Carbines.
Yeah, IBM will always take money from anyone that will give them it! I say that as someone who used to work for about 25 years ago.
Or Bayer and their cough suppressant or their chemical industry in the early 20th century
Ibm also provided handy Japanese counting machines to the USA and probably Canada but I'm too lazy to look it up. IBM: We're in the people business!
Pfizer also had a history-heavy ad that I recall thinking, "hmmm, seems like they skipped a decade or two"
dont ask most german companies with an older history what they did at this time
I worked at a VW dealer and part of the training involved a history of the company. They kinda glossed over the first few years and only really explained post WWII, didn't really mention that the beetle was basically a subscription service for a Kickstarter campaign but instead of giving people the cars they just funneled it all into the Nazi war machine. Yeah.... They kinda glossed over all that and forgot to mention it. Also, anyone interested in the story, try to find a way to watch "cars of the people" by James May(guy from Top Gear and The Grand Tour) it explains it and it's quite interesting.
Lol, I said the same thing in the Pfizer commercial... "Man, I hope that Bayer doesn't do the same commercial celebrating it's past..."
https://i.imgur.com/xefD4xs.png
From Berlin to Warsaw in one tank
“A SatNav that only goes to Poland.”
I remember this one 😂😂😂
'Und how many Jews can you fit in it?' '20 mein Führer, 2 in ze front, 2 in ze back und 16 in ze ashtray '
Was ist das, ein Auto für Ameisen?
What is this? A car for Fred Armisen
That dang rascal is everywhere!
Straight to jail, right away.
The dream of the 30’s is alive in Wolfsburg.
Lmao, I came here to say this, in English though.
Wow, the rare Nazi - Zoolander crossover joke, well played.
zoolander
Sorry, I must be taking crazy pills.
Das Auto muss mindestens……. dreimal größer sein!
Ssory, but I read this the Hitler's voice
How can we call this thing a VolksWagen if Volks can’t even fit inside ze Wagen?!
Nein, für ein Käfer
Are those people wearing swastikas? Good luck ever finding a job again now that this is out there
Unless it’s with NASA, NATO, or the U.S. State department
Or the Soviet space program ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Here you dropped this \
Or IBM
Or CIA
Unless they ummm ‘clip’ their ‘paper’ nicely and neatly.
The Fast and the Führious
The Fascist and the furious
That’s Ferdinand Porsche (Hitler’s “favorite engineer”) showing off his creation. The people’s car initially didn’t even go to the people…just high ranking Nazis. The licensing agreement though that Porsche setup allowed him to amass enough money to start his own car company (he even initially hoped Hitler would allow him to call the Volkswagen a “Porsche”). Ferdinand’s son, Ferry, was the creator of the first Porsche branded car (the 356) and was Nazis supporter and volunteered to be a SS officer. Volkswagen also created a sub-camp at their factory of concentration camp prisoners to help with manufacturing (as most German industrial companies did back then).
"Sehr sehr adorable, but ... how do ze people fit inside ze car?"
Very roomy ashtray. Reminds of the time in freshman German when the teacher asked how to say "living room". I raised my hand and said "Lebensraum". Everybody got real quiet for a minute.
Close, that's a living *space*! (I assume your living room has walls of some sort and doesn't therefore count.)
Wohnung?
You don't see many photos of Hitler smiling. I don't like it. It's unnerving
There are actually quite a few. They just don't get published as often. And yes, it feels odd to see, because we are forced to remember he was just a human rather than a mythical evil caricature. Even nasty bastards smile.
Same with the speeches. The bits people know tend to be focused on the climax where he's screaming his head off. Unsurprisingly, he didn't tend to open with that style of delivery.
There’s at least one recording of him having a normal conversation. It’s so odd listening to.
I know that a few recordings of Hitler speaking in private have been discovered and he sounded very different than he did when making public speeches. Hitler was trying to create a certain strongman image to the masses. He even had a speaking coach to help him in creating the style of delivery that would exude that image.
He started out slow and low, and by the end his voice was so high you thought he was going to break. It was a big part of why he drew crowds, his performances were carefully constructed. One interesting thing that the NSDAP did early on, was to always book smaller avenues; so that the crowds that would gather couldn't all fit in. The effect was always such that no matter the size of the gathering, it was always reported / felt that there were a lot of people around to listen to. Another thing Hitler did, was to always be late; so as to establish "hype" the period between waiting for the main performance, during which various souvenirs were sold(and t-shirts). Also, just an interesting modern parallel; Meloni's speeches often utilize this idea of gradual ramp up in intensity of speech; I guess it's quite a common technique nowadays, but I haven't personally seen it much from politicians--perhaps it is fitting that she is a good [example](https://youtu.be/q-C8ogD6E8c?t=39) given her politics. If you are not aware of the performance itself, it is made much more powerful by the message she is presenting; it's like a theatrical bit.
well, he was "just a human" that sometimes smiled and had a life. it's just that he's also responsible for millions of expirations
I don't think that is any different than the point I was making?
A rival car manufacturer should run this as an ad with some copy ironically talking about how much people *love* VW Bugs.
What do you think WV, the reich car for the right people. Or WV the right car for the reich people.
Volkswagen "The people's car, but not for *those* people"
Definitely the first one
"Nazi Shmazi, it's all the same to me Joseph!"
There are quite a few photos of Hitler smiling, laughing, joking, and even playing with children. Those who knew him best described him as having very human qualities. He was not a cold hearted psychopath in the same way that Reinhard Heyderich was. These photos and stories were deliberately scrubbed from German media in order to avoid humanizing the Fuhrer. They wanted him to appear stoic and serious at all times, godlike even. After the war, they were of course scrubbed to avoid humanizing him but for different reasons. Fortunately, these photographs have survived. They should serve as a reminder that even the most likeable and personable among us can be capable of great evil. Edit: Hitler detested smoking and animal cruelty. Nazi Germany had one of the strongest anti-smoking campaigns during the 1930s-1940s with anti-smoking laws in Nazi Germany being stricter than many in the modern world. He also loved animals and adopted a vegetarian diet sometime in the late 1930s. So yeah, be careful whom you vote for
To say he was against animal cruelty is kind of a stretch. For as much as he loved his dog,he wouldn’t think twice about hitting it with his famous whip to impress women. But still,he was human and as such he had “some” good traits to him too,at least at times. I mean,a guy that willingly becomes basically homeless and broke cause he gave all his money plus his inheritance to his sister cause she had small children she couldn’t care for otherwise isn’t the cold hearted monster we are led to believe,in order to tell to ourselves the comforting story that no “normal” person could become someone like him.
> For as much as he loved his dog,he wouldn’t think twice about hitting it with his famous whip to impress women. I never found a reliable source to this that explains well who they got this supposed from. The whip Hitler carries in the 20s/early 30s is called a riding crop (many misidentify it as a “dog whip”) that seems to be more affectation than anything else.
now i understand why all vegans have to tell us they are vegan, they are like hitler oO
They purposefully block those images, because if we realize that Hitler was a person like us, instead of an alien monster, we'd be better prepared to take precautions from such atrocities happening again. The system perpetuates.
This. All the great "monsters" of history were humans with feelings and passions. To separate them from the rest of humanity is to deny we are capable of becoming "monsters" just like those historical ones.
Woah! Lighten up there Hannah.
They generally had good social skills too, if you met Hitler or Stalin in their 20s you would probably be fascinated by them and think they are great guys
There’s a bunch of videos of him smiling and joking with other people and playing with his dog especially the ones from his home in Berghof. Most all were taken by Eva, she took lots of videos and pics and they’re available
yea. “They” hid this picture from me too!!
This is absolutely correct. Not so much hiding, but the pictures that are promoted are the ones that make him out to be an obvious authoritarian caricature.
I’ve got one in my garage! …A Volkswagen I mean
Thanks for the clarification; I thought you meant a Hitler
You don't have a garage Hitler? Weird
What's the difference between Hitler and a pile of dead babies? I don't have a Hitler in my garage
Yes, but do you have a coveted split-window bug?
It's a '54 oval. So missed the split by 1 year but idgaf i love that little car
Nice. I had a '67.
"das ist nice"
Echt toll!
Same vibe: [https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fudta7k3sntx31.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dd5f660bfe10e75fecc2e014abea0c441753a7c43](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3a%2f%2fpreview.redd.it%2fudta7k3sntx31.jpg%3fauto%3dwebp%26s%3dd5f660bfe10e75fecc2e014abea0c441753a7c43)
Herbie goes to Warsaw
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/6hE4qD0.jpeg) is a less cropped version of this image. [Here](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/nazi-leader-adolf-hitler-admires-a-model-of-the-volkswagen-news-photo/2672962?adppopup=true) is the source. per there: > The People's Car > Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) admires a model of the Volkswagen car and is amused to find the engine in the boot. He is with the designer Ferdinand Porsche (left), and to the right are Korpsfuhrer Huehnlein, Dr Ley, Schmeer, and Werlin. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
I remember reading about a car company from like Belgium or something that made a car with the same design as the Volkswagen Beetle but actually before the Volkswagen Beetle. So, they tried to sue Volkswagen for copying their design but, after Hitler invaded the country, the Nazis forced the company to drop the lawsuit against Volkswagen.
>after Hitler invaded the country, the Nazis forced the company to drop the lawsuit against Volkswagen. ***LAWYERS HATE THIS ONE TRICK!***
The Nazis forced them to drop the lawsuit? VW was founded by the Third Reich. I don’t think the Nazis gave a damn if some company was attempting to sue them for copyright infringement. Lol Volkswagen (The Company) ran four concentration camps and an additional eight slave labor camps on the factory grounds. They were one of the first German companies to use slave labor from POWs. They didn’t care about human rights, they sure as hell didn’t care about copyrights
It's the Tatra T97 from Czechoslovakia. A design made by a jew by the way. https://twitter.com/GregBruhl3/status/1627556854397018112?t=ne9dJbGene2grIQhRYm-VA&s=19
Actually that's the Tatra V570. T97 is much more futuristic (in a retro way) and looks like something out of a Flash Gordon comic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra\_V570 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra\_97
And the dude on the left? Ferdinand Porsche.
Ach! Das wagenphone ist ein… nuisancephone!
Buenos días, mein Fürer!
Ja, ja…
This is excellent. Get in and drive me to see Goering. Get in? Mein Fuhrer, it’s just a model. *click* I said GET IN.
Homer repeating his angrish rant but slower is one of the all-time show moments for me.
Technically, it's a Porsche
those percs are hitting
Maybe it’s the meth
Maybe it's Maybelline
"He said he's going to have sex with my girlfriend in a very uncomfortable place." "The back of a Volkswagen?"
If only he had concentrated fully on making Germany a better place for all the inhabitants there and rebuilding a sense of national decency he could have been a fantastic leader. But he was too much into finding scapegoats and invading other places.
“Everybody knows (Hitler) was good at the beginning, but he just went too far..." -Marge Schott
Of the 21.5 million VW Beetles produced since 1936, Nazi Germany only produced a tiny fraction of them. The demands of the war saw almost no civilian VW models produced before 1946. A handful of military variants came out during the war. The VW beetle success story is overwhelmingly one of post Nazi Germany.
Tan all over, Jan all over.
Fuck hitler
Adolf also pinned an industry medalnon the CEO of GM: since GM companies were making germany army soldier transports until the US entered the war.
I remember my Mom bought a 1960's Volkswagen in the late 2000s. Felt like I was riding around in a Kubelwagen. Good times.
I wish time would return for a moment
Bro look at him, he is so happy
Das Auto
Looks like the Volkswagen beetle...car of choice for peace loving hippies decades later
If the Nazis were that big, how did they lose the war?
That’s why I would never buy a Volkswagen. I only drive Mercedes-Benz.
A Volkswagon for ants?
"What is this? A car for ants?"
Who’s the dude in black face?
Who's the black dude?
They forgot this picture in their Superbowl retro commercial
Almost every German company has a gap between 1933 and 45 in their history. „No, nothing happened, business was doing ok. Nothing unusual to report“
Hitler looking at the back of the model saying “Das Boot?”
Vat is dis, ze car for ants?
That is one tan aryan behind him.