The man who sleeps in Hitlers bed

It should all be preserved & displayed as a testament to what happens when you tow the company line without thinking too much about it. It could happen again all too easily.
 
Wow! now that's a collection! That stuff is part of history and should be preserved. Humanity needs to remember what transpired so it doesn't happen again. I would be surprised if he didn't own one of the few king tiger tanks left as well, since they mention the movie Fury.
 
So Hitler was a Coke-aholic. Its kind of like Saddam Hussein being a fiend for Mars bars. I'd only call Wheatfield weird if he had Hitler's childhood pi$$-pot full of the future Fuhrer's coprolite.:)
 
Quite the collection indeed. Thanks for the post.

As for the comments section; "For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, no explanation is sufficient."

Adam
 
I found this interesting:

The owner of the house had just passed away; he was apparently a senior British diplomat who, in his regular trips to Germany in the lead-up to the war, amassed a sizable collection of Nazi memorabilia. He continued to collect after the war had finished, the most interesting items hidden in a safe room behind a secret panel. “It’s stunning,” Wheatcroft told me, by telephone, his voice fizzing with excitement. “There’s a series of handwritten letters between Hitler and Churchill. They were writing to each other about the route the war was taking. Discussions of a non-aggression pact. This man had copied things and removed them on a day-to-day basis over the course of the war. A complete breach of the Official Secrets Act, but mindblowing.” The authenticity of the papers, of course, has not yet been confirmed – but if they are real, they could secure Wheatcroft a place in the history books.
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I wonder what will come of that guy's plans. I doubt there are enough people with the right kind of intellect and appreciation for such an aspiration to show this collection and make it valuable knowledge. It's kind of like the difference between two good movies, where the audience cries at the end for both. But, one movie the good guys win, the other the bad guys win. I have nothing but sheer respect for those involved in something so big and so long ago now; the scope of the knowledge involved and all the cause and effects will be lost to the ages and those who choose to respect things a little differently nowadays.

I think I would be the one who get shivers walking through the exhibits imagining the suffering the thanking quietly to the stars above I am still here while watching probably a larger percentage of groupies or jokers taking it all for granted. If it could come across like the former, go for it, I support it, if the latter, it could do more harm than good.

Great article though, super journalist, very skilled.
 
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