Thanks for the pictures. Great post. The third Reich laid a heavy hand across the entire globe. It took the brilliance and intuition of a lot of smart people to empower our countries and end the reign of the Nazis. It is only fitting that such amazing technology would come out of an era so full of technological brilliance and darkness.
There are a million stories to be told. My German Mom and family have told me a few. It wasn't pretty.
One of the world’s great racing cars, a 1939 Mercedes-Benz W 154 Silver Arrow, will be specially featured at Lime Rock Park’s Vintage Festival September 4-7, 2009. A stellar attraction of the legendary period from 1934 to 1939, the W 154 represents the apogee of the supercharger era of Mercedes-Benz's racing vehicles. Rudolf Carraciola drove a Silver Arrow to the Grand Prix world ***le in 1938. The car dominated again in 1939, piloted by Hermann Lang. Germany's Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union GP motor racing vehicles between 1934 and 1939 were dubbed “Silver Arrows” by the press, applying later to Mercedes-Benz F1 and sports cars from 1954 onward. Very few of these cars were built and many were broken up or simply disappeared during the war era 1939-45 war. Audi has commissioned several replicas of their Auto Union ancestors which appear at important vintage events. But the W 154 Mercedes coming to Lime Rock is the real thing, campaigned by the likes of Lang, Carraciola and England’s **** Seaman, who won the 1938 German Grand Prix. The Mercedes will join several other exceptionally rare Grand Prix cars at the Festival. "The Festival this year will have some of the greatest racing cars of all time, both on display and competing," said Skip Barber. "I can't wait to see them on our newly resurfaced track.” Lime Rock Park is located just over the Dutchess County, NY border in Lakeville, in northwest Connecticut.
-My toes are fine! I was agreeing with You. Hard to convey in text, I guess. My point is simply that I am willing to bet that those things of beauty were built by guys more like "us" than a buncha hate****ers.
Very true but I also think that many of them would not have had that chance had it not been for the nazi's drive to prove to the world German superiority. Unfortunatley the two are tied together as the funding would more than likely not been there had the nazi's not been in power. Perhaps the ONLY good thing to come out of it was that some very talented people were allowed to flurish and product some remarkable technology and automotive beauty during a very dark time in human history.
[/QUOTE] I read an article that said American soldiers saluted the same as the germans before WWII and changed because of the Nazis. I dont know if its true.[/QUOTE] The American 45th Infantry Division from it's inception carried an arm patch with the ******** on a red background until the Nazi Party adopted it. They now carry a Thunderbird. Both were taken from ancient Native American history. The swastik symbol means life and good luck.
Between 1936 and 1943, German photographer Hugo Jaeger was granted unprecedented access to Adolph Hitler, travelling and chronicling, in color, the Fuerer and his confidants at small gatherings, public events and quite often in private moments. 1n 1945 when the Allies were making their final push towards Munich, Jaeger found himself face to face with six American soldiers in a small town west of the city. During a search of the house where Jaeger was staying, the Americans found a leather suitcase in which Jaeger had hidden thousands of his color negatives. He knew he would be arrested {or worse} if the Americans discovered his films and close connection to Hitler. But what happened next astonished him. Inside his suitcase, Jaeger also placed a bottle of Cognac. Happy with their find the soldiers proceeded to share the bottle with Jaeger and the owner of the house. The suitcase was forgotten. After the Americans left Jaeger packed the slides into twelve gl*** jars and buried them on the outskirts of the town. In the years following the war, Jaeger occasionally returned to his multiple caches, digging them up, repacking and reburying them. He finally retrieved the collection for good, 2,000 transparancies all in good shape and in 1965 sold them to LIFE Magazine. I have searched these archives and could not find any ***ociated with motor racing. But i stopped after 500 or so. Just too many. The following photos are by an unknown photographer.
I know this has nothing to do with this thread, the great Merc or Auto Union cars or even hotrods, but **** i just had to post this and it kinda fits here. Nazi Germany's secret stealth bomber. the Horton 229 that has recently been restored.
That is actually a model that was built for the Discovery channel, to test the stealth qualities of the design. There is only one of these aircraft in existence and it´s in a pretty bad state, albeit preserved.
Yes, but only a couple of months ago. You should be able to download it somewhere. (Edit - there are bits of it on Youtube)
Those photos from the original post in the thread look pretty traditional. Their automotive tradition, anyway. Except for the ******** and Hitler salute images, but they provide context. As for what ********s used to mean to the vast majority of the world's citizens(nothing) as compared to now( a murderous culture of hate and death), I'm saddened that the symbol was hijacked by the Nazis, but unless one is a native American, or a Buddhist(and I'm neither) one ought not tell most folks it's about anything but hate. Again, context.
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