http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/18 ... san_diego/

Never in the history of conspiracy theories have there been more black helicopters simultaneously airborne than in the case of what actually happened to Adolf Hitler on - and after - 30 April 1945.

Those of a less imaginative bent have it that the Führer simply shot himself and then his few remaining mates incinerated his and Eva Braun's bodies outside the bunker. Shortly afterwards, the Red Army arrived and took what little remained of the unhappy couple and whisked the bits off to Moscow.

However, some doubts remain. On 1 May, Martin Bormann, Artur Axmann (Hitler Youth supremo) and Ludwig Stumpfegger (Hitler's sawbones) tried to leg it out of Berlin. Axmann was later captured in the Bavarian Alps, and maintained that both Bormann and Stumpfegger had been shot during the escape attempt.

Black helicopter watchers know better. Bormann was subsequently spotted in Paraguay, raising speculation that he and his old chum Adolf had relocated to sunnier climes. After all, where better to hide out than South America, where the authorities at that time had a rather laissez faire attitude to top-ranking Nazis bearing large sums of plundered cash.

Well, we can now exclusively reveal that there is one location better suited to keeping your head down if you have made yourself rather unpopular by provoking the Second World War - somewhere so improbable that the conspiracy theory paradigm can consider itself well and truly redefined. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "The Seal's Lair", Bougainville Road, US Navy Exchange, San Diego:



Naturally, this being Adolf Hitler, he couldn't just bunker down in some suburban duplex and get on with writing his memoires. Oh no, when you've commanded the Thousand Year Reich you at least want an office complex in the shape of a swastika, courtesy of the Albert Speer school of architecture.

Those readers wondering how on Earth the US military didn't spot this before are reminded of the strange case of the arboreal swastika; a plantation of larch trees in a pine forest near the village of Zernikow, 60 miles north of Berlin.



Created in 1938 by horticultural Hitler aficionados, the swastika was not discovered until 1992 by a researcher perusing aerial photos. It has since been chainsawed into history, and quite right too.

Furthermore, the US can hardly be expected to spot large-scale Nazi construction activity on one of its own bases at a time when every available surveillance resource was directed at Cuban nuclear missile facilites, then Vietnamese troop movements, and latterly, the vast stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction™ left by departing Iraqi ne'er-do-well Saddam "50 Palaces" Hussein.

Thank God then for Google - the company which finally laid the Hitler conspiracy to rest.

how do you let a building be contructed in that shape

Contractors are suprisingly stupid.

people are in general.

the swastika is a very old symbol used by many civilzations...it was the fucking Nazis that gave it a bad meaning

yes, but the building was built post-WWII.

When can we stop being afraid of it? It's not like it can't represent anything else. Shit, the more the better. I don't want anyone to forget about what happened.

Probably never. Though many people are happy to wear t-shirts featuring the Soviet "Hammer and Sickle" and they killed like 8x the number of innocents the Nazi's did.

Is this true? There has to be something missing from that statement. Can I have some documentation on that?

And where t-shirts with che guevara's face on it.

Rummel, Rudolph J. -"Death by government" (good summary -http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstats.htm)

50 million non war deaths caused by Stalinist regimes.


Don't get me started on Che t-shirts.

Well, that'll take days for me to chew on properly, but my first response is that it equates war-related deaths, including popular revolutions and deaths that occured in an attempt to stop the Nazis, to the deaths as a result of Nazi genocide. I don't know if that's fair.

I could say that we kill more Iraqis than Sadaam ever did, but that's not necessarily a fair statement without a few critical caveots.

Read header #3: Soviet Union, Stalin's regime.

These are post communist revolution, not inclusive of WW2. There are no numbers that could say that US soldiers killed more Iraqis than Hussian.

this is a great thread.

you would think that one would be able to recognize the shape of that building in san diego without having a photo from the air. and as for that che t-shirt, that is just classic!

people get uptight about all sorts of symbols, and sometimes rightly so, as they mean many things to many different people. but once one becomes inherent, especially on a global level, its hard to be thought of as anything but. no matter how much someone would try to convince me that it would be ok to wear or display a swastika because it meant anything other than nazism, id find it a hard sell.

Perhaps they mistook him for Charlie Chaplin in costume....

...and the image of the trees is easily Photoshop,.... "created in 1938 and discovered in 1992"? Please.

.too funny.

I have a hammer and sickle track jacket that I bought at Target for $5.