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Damn! Just about to post that!:damn:

Can i make a dart board out of it? :88)

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/4371/a1945qim7.jpg
No, I think it's taken outside the Fuhrer's bunker, in Berlin '45.
It's probably the last time he saw daylight...maybe just hours before he and Eva Braun died.

to me li looks like they are checking to see if it's raining

Rain? I would worry about bigger drops falling from the sky, lol. http://www.61shap.org/pilots/Paajtor...ory/hitler.gif

OK, folks for the record this is indeed the final picture of Hitler.

ah.....Monty Python humour! For those who wants to know the funniest joke in the world (in german) keep reading. (germans are well advised to look away. No responsibility will be taken for eventual causes of death).

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer?
Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.

anyone knows what it means? (IF it means anything....)

oh yeah, Steed, are you sure that is the very last photo? I've seen several from his last days, is that the very last known what you know of?

we have this one for instance....(by the look of it, taken before, or after, Steeds photo.)
http://cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/a1945r.jpg

The guy on his right is telling him that Germany is winning the war.

Noone needed to tell him that. He was the only one who actually belived that Germany would live.....maybe not in the last day of his life, but right up to the last days, he knew he was right, and he would win.....

I personally think his last thoughts were like "now you all get what you deserve...and you don't deserve me"

Ach du lieber Banjoman
Banjoman, Banjoman
Ach du lieber banjoman
spiel mich ein lied. :88)

LOL! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Without getting too entangled into the subject, could anyone that speaks german say if Adolf was a good orator?

To me, probably because I can't understand german, the videos clips where he speaks look utterly ridiculous, and I can almost see him foaming at the mouth like a junk yard dog when he speaks. His moustache looks funny, and certainly not manly, his side combed hair looks weak and is continously getting in his face as he groes overly excited. He's not blond, tall or strong or even particularly handsome, so he's hardly an ideal specimen of the master race (not to even mention some of his closest aids, like Goering) He makes way to many hand gestures and talks unnecesarily loud (he over-sells his presentation, reminding me of Krushev and his bit about taking a shoe off and banging the table with it during one of his speeches)

So again, without getting too much into the "how is it that he could convince his followers?" deal, could some one bouch for his speaking skills? Or was he just as bad at it as it looks like today?

I trust what I heard from a non-nazi from the time: "He was a GREAT speaker after a while, in the beginning he wasn't that good, just picking words and mummbeling...then afterwards, he got his energy and he was a wonderful speaker! It was then I thought I was sad because I couldn't be happy as his followers, since I did not like what the words meant."

(not taken word by word, I saw a man say this on a video in school, but that is what he basically said.)

Hitler's persona grew from the inside, fed by an anger as a result of WWI, and his parents - his father in particular.
Despite his appearance, he had a strange influence on people, most of all women and kids.
His eyes were said to have a staring, hypnotical glare, which seemed to penetrate people's mind.

In front of large crowds, he became at his "best", when his anger reached a point where he no longer was a person, but a god-like entity.

Judging by today's standards, his speeches make no sense.
But one has to see this through the eyes of the humble workers of that time, seeking a reason to blame others for the misery that they felt.

The way Hitler and his propaganda-machine manipulated people, was new...and carefully fine-tuned, with an emphasis on strong optical elements, like his gestures, the background (like Speer's architecture), thousands of marching soldiers with banners (and torches, in night-time settings), and last but not least by clever use of camera's - which footage ended up in the cinemas.
Leni Riefenstahl was his favourite director.

Hitler was the result of a process, that was started in the 19th centure, when the industrialisation came up...he was simply the wrong guy, being at the wrong place at the right time...or the wrong time, of course.

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Hitler was the result of many bad things. First off, the offspring of two people who should never have had kids, that one is quite certain. His father was supposedly a terrible person and his mother not so great (though this is heresay really, no one really knows).

He was the result of a crappy society that treated poor people like dirt, and he was too weak to stick it out, instead he looked for a source of his misery, instead of looking in. He was also exposed to intollerance later in his life, mostly by art teachers (remember young Adolf had NO interest in politics, he wanted to be an artist) who instead of helping the budding artist, ridiculed and insulted him (once again, his internal weakness caused him to lash out instead of change what was wrong).

His hatred of jews? I don't quite know where this came from, I have read little about this madman, but I have heard that most of the people that held money in Austria, were jewish, they also supposedly did most of the lending (at very high interest rates). How acurate this is? Not sure.

His speaches in the beer hall had absolutely no fire. He mumbled about how the economy of the country was trashed, and the poor were suffering (good starting point), but no one paid attention, until young adolf found a niche. He started blaming the jews for Germany's problems. Other people began to listen to this man at the podium.

Hitler's demonic fire was ignited. The rest is, as they say is history.

Note: It is my understanding that not one U-boat had a portrait of Hitler on it. Not one had nazi political officers on board, and only one or two comanders followed the Furer. The others? They fought for the fatherland, and the ones they loved.

This is probably why the man to take the helm of Germany after Hitler gaked himself and his new bride was non other than Admiral Doenitz. (sp). Out of all the living higher leaders of Nazi Germany, he was found to be the least sympothedic to the Nazi Cause. (Also probably why he was not hung like all the others)

As for my boats? Hitler's photo is at the bottom of the bowl of the crapper. Doenitz's photo is in the officer's mess, with a fly crawling on it:)