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

[u/NathanCS741]

[u/Virtual_Wallaby_5916]

The Chinese seem to enjoy German 20 century aesthetic.

[u/Delamoor → u/Virtual_Wallaby_5916]

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.

[u/DrStalker → u/Delamoor]

Good things about Nazis:

• Very Stylish
• The Volkswagen beetle

Bad Things about Nazis:

• Everything else

[u/LeGouzy → u/DrStalker]

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

[u/ThraceLonginus → u/LeGouzy]

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

[u/Auravendill → u/ThraceLonginus]

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

[u/Jaratii → u/ThraceLonginus]

That sounds exactly like someone else I know.

[u/Lextube → u/DrStalker]

Don't forget the Autobahn

[u/musland → u/Lextube]

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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And Fanta

[u/awstream → u/DrStalker]

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

[u/TheNotoriousSAUER → u/DrStalker]

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.

[u/Either-Lock2454 → u/DrStalker]

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

[u/ProcrastibationKing → u/DrStalker]

They also invented Fanta

[u/DrStalker → u/ProcrastibationKing]

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

[u/beeeel → u/DrStalker]

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

[u/Razgriz01 → u/beeeel]

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.

[u/kipn7ugget → u/Razgriz01]

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

[u/PassivelyInvisible → u/kipn7ugget]

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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"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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The hydrogen bomb?

[u/DrStalker → u/Southern_Drawing7996]

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

[u/Razgriz01 → u/DrStalker]

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

[u/davewave3283 → u/Razgriz01]

Whoopsie

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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.