$cientology and Historic Buildings - Likeness to the Third Reich?
Feisty
$cientology buys alot of historic buildings, and of course has some large complexes like
the Sandcastle, (which was at once a hotel, iirc.) and Gold Base. With the exception of
Gold Base, they have always used the history of these buildings to showcase and boast how
they renovate them. They are places they entertain and recruit politicians and
celebrities.
There are some similarities of the buildings during the days of Hitler and of the Third
Reich that are interesting - especially concerning how they used them to recruit the
masses.
There are also a couple about Hitler's Berghoff, which had another house above it on a
mountainside. Isn't there a "Hubbard's return house" and another house or building
like this at Gold Base? There's an aerial photo an one of the below-listed urls showing
how Hitler's bunker was impossible to destruct because of its construction. Maybe Gold
Base is situated like that, or even the secretive Trementina property that is said to
withstand any major catastrophe - just like Hitler's one Alpine home was.
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/bgaden.htm
The Berchtesgadener Hof hotel had previously been the "Grand Hotel Auguste Victoria,"
popular with visiting royalty. The Nazis bought it in 1936, remodeled it and renamed
it the Berchtesgadener Hof, and used it to house dignitaries visiting Hitler's Berghof,
such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor,
http://www.anthonymtung.com/excerpts.htm
In Wurzburg, in Bavaria, town planners of the Third Reich drafted precise drawings
identifying a historic area of "Germanic" architectural character in which select old
buildings would be saved (including a historic castle to serve as Hitler's state
residence), and a modern provincial city would be built up around them. The Pabst
Plan, composed of fifteen drawings and a miniature architectural model, established that
the new German agricultural center would be located in the sector around the Old and New
Towns of Warsaw. (The Pabst Plan is named for the German army architect Friedrich Pabst,
who refined the idea of destroying an enemy's national cultural identity by destroying its
physical manifestations: architecture, art, and historic archives.
Big buildings too, like the Sandcastle or Celebrity Centres - any place they
lure with:
http://www.adolfhitler.ws/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=1
"The enormous buildings were designed as a stylized inspiration for the masses, a
visual symbol of the national cultural and political power. The art that graced these
buildings was just as carefully selected for its effects on the viewer. The ideals of
National Socialism were to be represented in even the smallest details: furniture
tapestries. fixtures paintings, sculptures, lamps and fabrics were all coordinated. A
thorough
"Gleichschaltung," or political coordination, of the fine arts occurred throughout Germany
and German?occupied territory: the NSDAP was the ultimate authority for establishing and
enforcing acceptable aesthetic standards."
Here is some information about Hitlers secretive and mysterious housings
Hitler's bunker was designed to withstand attack. Maybe we are naive to think that
the vaults in Trementina are to protect secret writings:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/penthouse-plans-for-hitlers-bunker/2005/06/22/1119321789241.html
It was designed by Adolf Hitler and proved far, far more durable than his 1000-year
Reich, which vanished in flames in just 12.
home of the infamous Gestapo headquarters for the city and the Reich - survived both
the allied bombing and postwar attempts by the Red Army and later the East German
government to blow it up.
Its 2.6 metre-thick steel-reinforced concrete walls ensured the structure survived
the war, unlike most buildings around it. In 1945 it was occupied by the Red Army and
used as a prison for German soldiers.
Postwar attempts to demolish it failed because of the sheer strength of the massive
walls.
More here:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:HDg1x01SF6MJ:www.poloniatoday.com/explore30.htm+hitler++historic+buildings&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2
THE WOLF'S LAIR
Hitler's wartime headquarters was called The Wolf's Lair. It lies in the woods of
Gierloz, 8 km. East of Ketrzyn. It consisted of a group of eighty strong bunkers
built in the years 1940-44, a small railway station and an airfield. It had a direct
telephone link with Berlin. In eight of the bunkers the thickness of the walls was
from 1-6 meters and the thickness of the roof from 6-8 meters. Hitler's headquarters
was exceptionally carefully guarded. It was surrounded by a belt of minefields, with
anti-aircraft gun emplacements. The buildings were camouflaged with nets holding
imitation foliage, the color of which was changed from season to season.
Hitler, Homes and Gardens magazine - Some of the historic $cientology
bought buildings have been featured in some articles or magazines, iirc.
http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/a/028635.htm
Simon Waldman recently found a November 1938 issue of Homes & Gardens, a British
fashion-style magazine which profiled Hitler's Alpine home, the Haus Wachenfeld. The
public response was amazing and people flocked to online scans, but the magazine's
modern publishers asked them to be removed; however, they are still available.
http://europeanhistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.hydepark.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp%3Ftopic%5Fid=554707
The piece is fascinating reading and potential evidence for those interested in how
middle England warmed to the charms of the German leader. I should point out that the
"fawning" style of the article was probably not due to any special regard for Hitler:
most of the Homes and Gardens are treated like this...just think of Hello or any
celebrity magazine.
Hitler's House with others in a complex, reminded me of Gold Base. pics of
that mountainside house..
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/bgaden.htm
In 1927 he rented and later bought a mountain retreat called Haus Wachenfeld. This
house became the basis for a later expansion that turned the peaceful, out-of-the-way
Obersalzberg retreat into a huge complex of Nazi buildings, mostly closed to the
public. Nazi leaders such as Hermann Göring and Albert Speer had houses in this
complex, to be close to their Führer, but the mastermind of the Obersalzberg complex
was Nazi Reichsleiter and Party Secretary Martin Bormann (who also had a house there,
overlooking Hitler's).
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/bormgoer.htm
An odd fact, that Hitler was a failed artist, and like Hubbard, had his own museum
(Linz Museum) - of stolen honors of other artists:
http://www.intelligenttelevision.com/feature.htm
Launching a museum project with a continent-wide acquisitions staff in the middle of
a brutal world war is further detail about the operatic insanity of the German
Fuhrer, himself an Austrian artist and failed art student... (wonder how much looted
stuff scn has gooten out of people, art, etc) The U.S. War Department and Office of
Strategic Services (OSS) swiftly established a special Art Looting Investigation
Unit.
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Feisty
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their
discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and
everything conceals something else.
-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities