r/interestingasfuck • u/NathanCS741 • 13h ago

The interesting aesthetic of the headquarters of Heilan, a Chinese clothing brand

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u/Virtual_Wallaby_5916 13h ago

The Chinese seem to enjoy German 20 century aesthetic.

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u/Delamoor 12h ago edited 12h ago

Truthfully, if you remove it from the historical context, it generally ain't that shabby. First half of 1900s had some pretty cool fashions and styles mixed in there (alongside some massive fashion misfires), all over the place... Even though everyone was a pack of murderous assholes.

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u/DrStalker 12h ago

Good things about Nazis:

  • Very Stylish
  • The Volkswagen beetle

Bad Things about Nazis:

  • Everything else

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u/LeGouzy 10h ago

The Volkswagen Beetle was a shamelessly stolen Tatra project. It would have happened without the nazis anyway (and probably even sooner).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_97

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u/ThraceLonginus 8h ago

Tatra sued Porsche for damages, and Porsche was willing to settle. But Hitler cancelled this, saying he "would settle the matter".

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u/Auravendill 7h ago

Reminds me of someone orange. Art of the deal or smth

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u/Jaratii 6h ago

That sounds exactly like someone else I know.

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u/Lextube 10h ago

Don't forget the Autobahn

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u/musland 9h ago

They literally just acted on the plans that were from before their time in government. Would've been built either way.

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u/robbodagreat 5h ago

And Fanta

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u/awstream 7h ago edited 7h ago

I always thought that their eagle emblem design was very nice. The rest of the stuff they do though, very bad.

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u/TheNotoriousSAUER 4h ago

We just need to start dressing up the Peace Corps and Doctors Without Borders in those uniforms. Reclaim the drip so they stop being nazi uniforms.

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u/Either-Lock2454 6h ago

I think it's safe to say taking an interest in Nazi memorabilia is not the same as being interested in Nazism.

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u/ProcrastibationKing 10h ago

They also invented Fanta

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u/DrStalker 10h ago

Due to a wartime shortage of girders they were unable to develop Fanta into  proper IRN-BRU.

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u/beeeel 12h ago edited 11h ago

Pretty sure they also invented the jet engine and the hydrogen atom bomb, so that's another item for and another against.

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u/Razgriz01 11h ago

The allies were making their own jet engines and aircraft at around the same time, but only the British actually got to use theirs during the war (the Meteor), and they only flew it over the british isles for defense, so it never got nearly as much attention as the Me-262.

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u/kipn7ugget 11h ago

What i think also helps is that the germans were doing a lot of weird shit, and 99% of it wasn't going to do anything, but you call it a wunderwaffe and suddenly it sounds scary and cool

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u/PassivelyInvisible 10h ago

A lot of the wunderwaffe were big, scary weapons, until you realize the linitations they had.

Super scary jet fighter ... that has serious engine lifespan problems in a country with no fuel left.

Giant railway gun ... that they made one of, and is stuck to railway tracks, and can't even fire far enough to be seriously useful.

Proto-ICBM that can hit anywhere on the continent ... but was fairly innaccurate and didn't have a big enough warhead to do enough damage to make up for innaccuracy.

And so on. The jerry can was one of their best inventions from the time period. The VW Beatle too. Practical designs that work really well.

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u/Delamoor 9h ago

"Herr Himmler, the Russians are making great advances again. We have a new project that might help, we will take a smal-"

"-Yes, approved! Here's twenty thousand Russian slave workers and a factory in occupied territory, kill as many as you can!"

"-Small apple, and-... Wait, what?"

Basically how every wunderweapon got approved. Throw shit at the wall, burn through as many slave labourers as possible, doesn't matter if it's doomed to failure, if it has a shadow's chance in hell they were gonna try it.

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u/Southern_Drawing7996 12h ago

The hydrogen bomb?

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u/DrStalker 12h ago

AFAIK they researched it but never got close to making a usable weapon.

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u/Razgriz01 11h ago

They concluded it was impossible, after having completely rejected Einsteins work on nuclear physics for being "Jew science".

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u/davewave3283 11h ago

Whoopsie

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u/beeeel 11h ago

Oops double checked and actually I should have attributed the Uranium bomb to the Nazis, not the H-bomb. I got confused because I knew the Nazis were producing heavy water.

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u/Status-Bluebird-6064 11h ago

Nazi fashion is supposed to look old-fashioned in its time, it's not some typical 1900s fashion. They made their uniforms to look different than the ones from WW1 since they lost that time, and the nazis were all for historical romanticism, especially towards old Prussian uniforms

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u/Puffen0 7h ago

" Gay Nazis? Just when you thought they couldn't dress any snappier!" 

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u/Lepurten 6h ago

The roaring 20s must have been insanely amazing to live through in Berlin and/or Vienna. If you had money, and didn't follow the news too closely. It's often described as a dance on a volcano. I find the 1920s extremely fascinating.

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u/Delamoor 40m ago

Agreed, very interesting period.

Though don't discount how interesting the current twenties have been as well...

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u/gamingraptor 12h ago edited 5h ago

Kinda odd considering that Germany was japans ally and they absolutely despise 1940s Japan

Edit: TIL about German Chinese solidarity in ww2

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u/Fabulous_Lobster 11h ago

Things are never simple! Germany were massively involved#Nazi_Germany_and_China) with China until after the war with Japan started and provided military training to China until 1938 – 5 years after the Nazi party's rise to power and still roughly 1 year after the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The defendants of the Defence of Sihang Warehouse during the Battle of Shanghai were the German-trained 88th Division, so you actually had Chinese war heroes that looked like this:

I don't believe this is much of a taboo in PRC despite those soldiers being Nationalists given the box-office success The Eight Hundred, which is a pretty interest drama about that battle that you you can watch for free on YouTube. Fell in a rabbit hole after wondering about the uniforms in that movie ;)

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u/warhead71 5h ago

But that wasn’t communist Chinese 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/s090429 11h ago

Well actually Germany was China's ally first. The elite divisions in ROC Army were trained by German advisors.

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u/Icy_Payment2283 5h ago

And then Mao wiped the floor with 'em womp womp

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u/fluffywabbit88 10h ago

A Nazi, John Rabe, saved 250,000 Chinese during the Rape of Nanking. He’s the forgotten Oskar Schindler of China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe

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u/Draxx01 5h ago

If the Germans had more time the roc woulda actually held off the JP invasion. They were training the Chinese at the time in return for like tungsten. It's kinda mixed.

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u/Pedrosian96 11h ago

It is impeccable drip. There's a reason so many villain-adjacent designs use it as a basis.

The fact it should solely be associated with villains seems disturbingly lost on a lot of people...

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u/FonkyFruit 11h ago

They also enjoy their concentration camps in Xinjiang

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u/Seileach 1h ago

You're upsetting them, there's no "Concentration Camp", only "Vocational Education and Training Center". 😉

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u/Icy_Payment2283 5h ago

Literal fake news bullshit and I dare you to travel there right now. There are no visa restrictions.

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u/Remarkable_Swing_612 4h ago

He's too stupid and poor to go

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u/Fireball8732 1h ago

Good to know the CCP propaganda still works!

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u/Zealousideal_Bard68 1h ago

Fact : Weimar Republic sent military material and officers to train the Chinese Nationalist government in the 20’s.