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.
Perhaps. Of course back then in Germany it was called DuRöhre, distributed via the ZwischenNetz. A fact mostly lost to the annals of history.
(Though BASF did invent magnetic tape recording - for audio - during WWII. Picked up by a US officer, literally, after the war to found the Ampex corporation.)
Looks like a gathering of the democrat party members.
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