04-01-2017, 10:42 AM
More bad taste, also by a murderous tyrant:
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Hermann Göring.
(Ridiculously small print for his name, illustrating the pettiness of his personality. Kleptocrat, serial mass murderer, and of course a Hitler crony). A dagger? Can you imagine FDR or Churchill with one of those?
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Functionally much in the spirit of the Taj Mahal, built to partially glorify the man but satisfy the sentimental tastes of his wife (it's named after his Swedish-born wife), it is intended to awe any visitor. Goering, infamous as a serial-killer by remote control as Gestapo boss and head of the Luftwaffe (for which he commissioned brutal pseudo-medical experiments upon helpless inmates in Nazi concentration camps) was also a serial-killer... of deer, as shown by the rich collection of antlers and by one of his official titles as Jagdmeister (Master of the Hunt).
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The buildings have been destroyed, but this is no ordinary hunting lodge. It is safe to believe that he killed more prey in the form of political prisoners, inmates of concentration camps, and helpless people exposed to his murderous Blitz from Britain to Poland and Greece, than deer. Because it is not a color image, I can hardly guess at the level of gilding. I can only imagine what sorts of stag parties could have been held here... as Nazism was basically a bad boy's club.
His wife died young (and regrettably it was she and not this monstrous sociopath who died young) and as with the Taj Mahal his residence became a veritable shrine for his wife. Unlike the palace in Agra, this one got destroyed in World War II. Nothing to mourn, all in all.
Hermann Göring.
(Ridiculously small print for his name, illustrating the pettiness of his personality. Kleptocrat, serial mass murderer, and of course a Hitler crony). A dagger? Can you imagine FDR or Churchill with one of those?
Functionally much in the spirit of the Taj Mahal, built to partially glorify the man but satisfy the sentimental tastes of his wife (it's named after his Swedish-born wife), it is intended to awe any visitor. Goering, infamous as a serial-killer by remote control as Gestapo boss and head of the Luftwaffe (for which he commissioned brutal pseudo-medical experiments upon helpless inmates in Nazi concentration camps) was also a serial-killer... of deer, as shown by the rich collection of antlers and by one of his official titles as Jagdmeister (Master of the Hunt).
The buildings have been destroyed, but this is no ordinary hunting lodge. It is safe to believe that he killed more prey in the form of political prisoners, inmates of concentration camps, and helpless people exposed to his murderous Blitz from Britain to Poland and Greece, than deer. Because it is not a color image, I can hardly guess at the level of gilding. I can only imagine what sorts of stag parties could have been held here... as Nazism was basically a bad boy's club.
His wife died young (and regrettably it was she and not this monstrous sociopath who died young) and as with the Taj Mahal his residence became a veritable shrine for his wife. Unlike the palace in Agra, this one got destroyed in World War II. Nothing to mourn, all in all.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.