Re: Apollo 8 and Bowels
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Date: May 18, 2020 11:36AM
toasted onion Wrote:
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> Hitler’s Toilet,
> This story is super interesting. In January of
> 2014, it was discovered that a toilet that was
> used by Adolf Hitler was discovered in full
> working order (being used everyday by workers in a
> car repair shop’s employees) in New Jersey. That
> sounds like the plot for a terrible movie, but
> it’s true. The toilet was originally apart of
> the Aviso Grille, which was the official German
> State yacht and was at the time the largest yacht
> in history (at 433 feet). The toilet was adjacent
> to Hitler’s bedroom and when the ship was
> destroyed in a scrap yard in… You guessed it,
> New Jersey. That’s where the owner of Greg’s
> Auto Repair in Florence, Burlington County found
> and purchased it, brought it back to his shop and
> created a make-shift bathroom by putting up
> plywood around the toilet for his employees who
> had to have had no other option but to use that
> toilet. The shop was purchased by Greg Kohfeldt
> from the previous owner, who realized the history
> behind the toilet and attempted to sell it in
> 2014. While some may not have heard of the Aviso
> Grille, it was a very important symbol of
> Germany’s strength and power not only because of
> it’s size but also because Hitler had said that
> he planned to sail the ship he called ‘The White
> Swan’ up the River Thames in Britain to accept
> Britain’s surrender. Obviously and thankfully
> that didn’t work out and the ship ended up as
> part of Germany’s navy after it became obvious
> that things weren’t going well enough for Hitler
> to hang out on a yacht and it eventually ended up
> near where Hitler may have invaded the United
> States, but instead people of all different
> backgrounds and ethnicities ended up sharing the
> same toilet that Hitler once used. That sounds
> like poetic justice to me.
What is your source? This is interesting though. Also not sure about the veracity of Brown Onion's historical claims with the Apollo mission, but still good reading.