that is a Burger King...inside an old transformer station that provided power to the Zeppelinfeld at the Reichsparteitagsgelände, the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg
this feels like an incredibly appropriate repurposing of Albert Speer’s works
this feels like an incredibly appropriate repurposing of Albert Speer’s works
Zeppelinfeld is home to the grandstand where the US Army’s Third Division blew up an enormous marble swastika in 1945.
God bless America.
God bless America.
Speaking of “the Nazi who said sorry,” seems like the right time for somebody to make an Albert Speer biopic. Speer was Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Nuremberg Trials for crimes against humanity.
He claimed ignorance of the Holocaust, but said he accepted moral responsibility for what happened. The mythology around Speer, much of which he engineered and encouraged, rewrote history to portray him as an apolitical man who had no idea how far Hitler had gone.
In reality, he used the Nuremberg Laws to displace 75,000 Jews and forged documents to make it look like he had no knowledge of these actions. He approved materials for an expansion of Auschwitz, but claimed he had no idea what was going on there.
And he straight-up lied about being present at Himmler’s speech at the Posen Conference when he said “The grave decision had to be taken to cause this people to vanish from the earth ... In the lands we occupy, the Jewish question will be dealt with by the end of the year.”
Speer’s attempts to paint himself as an essentially moral man who was simply doing his patriotic duty for the country he loved, while ignorant of the horrific consequences, allowed many Germans to rationalize their own “ignorance” of the Holocaust.
Anyway, I’d watch the hell out of a biopic about the stories we tell ourselves to rationalize turning a blind eye to atrocities in the name of patriotism. Feels relevant.
nothing like starting the day with some Lucky Charms and a little Nazi thread
I’ve decided the film should be called “Stick to Sports Complexes: The Albert Speer Story.” You’re welcome.
