Posted on 02/27/2018 9:56:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
Footage showing evil dictator Adolph Hitler relaxing in his hideaway home in the Bavarian Alps has been uncovered.
Videos from Hitler's private collection show his wife Eva Braun practicing gymnastics and waterboarding on a local lake near to the Berghof retreat.
In the footage Hitlter, Braun and other Nazis including Albert Speer, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Reinhard Heydrich and Karl Wolff were all captured in the footage, which re-emerged recently.
The Berghof was Hitler's hideaway home in the Obersalzberg area of the Bavarian Alps in Germany - following the end of World War II the property was confiscated.
The property was rebuilt and expanded in 1935 and Hitler used it as a holiday retreat for ten years - it was known to be one of his most used headquarters.
Wife Eva Braun. Credit: Media Drum Wife Eva Braun. Credit: Media Drum
In the mid-1930s the Berghof became a tourist attraction, with visitors gathering on the nearby public footpaths to try and get a glimpse of Hitler.
As a result, access to the building became restricted and security was ramped up - a number of 'anti-aircraft devices' were fitted, including a number of smoke generators to help mask the complex in smoke so it couldn't easily be seen from above.
Hitler welcomed a number of high-profile guests to the complex, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1937. He also entertained the family and friends of his wife and the families of other Nazi leaders.
Two visitors unsucessfuly attempted to assinate Hitler at the Berghof in 1944; in March Captain Eberhard von Breitenbuch managed to smuggle in a concealed gun with the intention of shooting Hitler. However, guards kept the Nazi leader and von Breitenbuch apart.
Credit: Media Drum Credit: Media Drum
In June of the same year, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg planned to detonate a bomb during a meeting but was told by his fellow conspirators not to as Himmler and Goring were not present.
On 14 July 1944 Hitler left the Berghof for his headquarters in East Prussia and never returned.
In 1945 the building was damaged by British bombers and then set on fire by retreating SS troops a month later. The Bavarian government demolished the burnt out shell in 1952.
Recreactional waterboarding?
Won Hung Lo.
This stuff has been out for years.
I have most of that...in color...as part of the BBC “The World At War” series from 1973-74.
Dang, people are gullible...”NEW!” my hairy backside.
I was expecting a “Hitler reacts to [[insert progressive blunder]]” video
Pfl
Many of the facilities, hotels and buildings connected to the Nazis in Berchtesgaden were confiscated by the US Army and turned into recreational hotels for US military personnel and their families. Stayed in the Berchesgadener Hof hotel in the mid 80’s. Very beautiful area. Army did the same thing in Garmisch.
Yeah, this is not new footage,
Saw a very similar video, in color, of Hitler sat his retreat with his buds, but someone had added the theme song from “Friends” to it. Yes, it was funny in a dark, disturbing way.
Trump is literally Hitler.
No Trump, he wasn’t born yet; but there is a person in the video who has a slight resemblance to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Videos, really? VHS or Betamax?
It might have been from Hitler’s YouTube channel?
This is not new. It was featured in “The World at War.”
Well, he only did have one.
Franz Liebekind: You know, not many people knew it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
Max: Really, I never dreamed that...
Franz Liebekind: That is because that you were taken in by that verdammte Allied propaganda! Such filthy lies! They told lies! But nobody ever said a bad word about Winston Churchill, did they? No! ‘Win with Winnie!’ Churchill! With his cigars. With his brandy. And his rotten painting, rotten! Hitler - there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two Coats! Churchill. He couldn’t even say ‘Nazi’. He would say ‘Noooo-zeeehz, Nooooooooooooo-zeeehz!’ It wasn’t Noses! It was Nazis! Churchill!...Let me tell you this! And you’re hearing this straight from the horse. Hitler was better looking than Churchill. He was a better dresser than Churchill. He had more hair! He told funnier jokes! And he could dance the pants off of Churchill!...Churchill!
Chillin’ like a villain!
All he needed was a 40 and some shakers. MC Hitler, in the house.
Thanks for the ping to this interesting bit of history.
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