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Some funny facts about high ranking axis figures (thread)
Hitler:
-Was terrified of Cats
-He had a favourite Alligator named Saturn which he often visited at the Berlin Zoo, he was taken to Moscow and is still alive today
-Declared a random native American tribe he never met to be honorary Aryans, didn& #39;t do so for Italians
-Was terrified of Cats
-He had a favourite Alligator named Saturn which he often visited at the Berlin Zoo, he was taken to Moscow and is still alive today
-Declared a random native American tribe he never met to be honorary Aryans, didn& #39;t do so for Italians
Göring
-Only nazi leader who enjoyed fat jokes about him, he considered them signs of popularity
-Owned multiple pet lions
-Dressed in Drag
-After the Luftwaffe was destroyed he spent the remainder of the war throwing drug parties, because he had nothing else to do
-Only nazi leader who enjoyed fat jokes about him, he considered them signs of popularity
-Owned multiple pet lions
-Dressed in Drag
-After the Luftwaffe was destroyed he spent the remainder of the war throwing drug parties, because he had nothing else to do
Himmler
-Sent an expedition into Tibet to search for Yetis
-Had his own Wizard castle, knights of the round table, and a Wizard advisor
-Tried to find the holy grail
-Was a chicken farmer during the interwar years
-Was a duelist
-Sent an expedition into Tibet to search for Yetis
-Had his own Wizard castle, knights of the round table, and a Wizard advisor
-Tried to find the holy grail
-Was a chicken farmer during the interwar years
-Was a duelist
Hirohito
-Was a real-life marine biologist and published several scientific papers
-Built a golf course in his palace
-Tried to convert Japan to Christianity after the war because he thought America would treat his country better, had to be forced not to by MacArthur
-Was a real-life marine biologist and published several scientific papers
-Built a golf course in his palace
-Tried to convert Japan to Christianity after the war because he thought America would treat his country better, had to be forced not to by MacArthur
Plaek Phibunsongkhram
-Extreme Thai nationalist despite being half Chinese
-Was obsessed with Mussolini, tried to model himself after him in dress and ideology
-Technically invaded by Japan both before and after pearl harbor, because of how timezones work
-Extreme Thai nationalist despite being half Chinese
-Was obsessed with Mussolini, tried to model himself after him in dress and ideology
-Technically invaded by Japan both before and after pearl harbor, because of how timezones work
Mannerheim
-Travelled to China in his youth on a mission from the Czar
-Taught the Dalai lama how to fire a gun
-Came from a Swedish speaking region in Finland. Due to his service in the Russian army he forgot most of the Finnish he learned as a child and had to reacquire it
-Travelled to China in his youth on a mission from the Czar
-Taught the Dalai lama how to fire a gun
-Came from a Swedish speaking region in Finland. Due to his service in the Russian army he forgot most of the Finnish he learned as a child and had to reacquire it
Mussolini
-Dueled journalists who criticized him
-Wrote Romance novels
-Was never baptized, parents sent him to a school run by monks instead where he stabbed a student
-Was terrified that people in the future would think that Hitler invented fascism instead of him
-Dueled journalists who criticized him
-Wrote Romance novels
-Was never baptized, parents sent him to a school run by monks instead where he stabbed a student
-Was terrified that people in the future would think that Hitler invented fascism instead of him
Tojo:
- "The most humorless man in all of Japan"
- Slapped people in the face when giving them orders
- Was slapped in the head during war crimes tribunal
-Loathed Churchill for not letting Japan annex all of Siberia after the Russo Japanese war, hated Americans afterward
- "The most humorless man in all of Japan"
- Slapped people in the face when giving them orders
- Was slapped in the head during war crimes tribunal
-Loathed Churchill for not letting Japan annex all of Siberia after the Russo Japanese war, hated Americans afterward
Boris III, king of Bulgaria
- Father was excommunicated from the Catholic church
- Declared a "Symbolic war" on Britan
- Godson of Czar Nicholas II
- Had his marriage legally registered by Mussolini
- Father was excommunicated from the Catholic church
- Declared a "Symbolic war" on Britan
- Godson of Czar Nicholas II
- Had his marriage legally registered by Mussolini
Mussert (Netherlands puppet leader)
-Married his aunt
-Was a professional engineer
-Tried to kidnap the queen, begged her for forgiveness after Germany lost the war and was refused
-His Dutch fascist party was mainly Jewish
-Married his aunt
-Was a professional engineer
-Tried to kidnap the queen, begged her for forgiveness after Germany lost the war and was refused
-His Dutch fascist party was mainly Jewish
Victor Emmanuel III:
-Was 5 foot tall
-Italians nicknamed him Sciaboletta or "little saber"
-His Queen (who was 1.80m) would affectionately call him "mon petit roi" or "my small king"
-Was 5 foot tall
-Italians nicknamed him Sciaboletta or "little saber"
-His Queen (who was 1.80m) would affectionately call him "mon petit roi" or "my small king"
Ribbentrop
- Accidently smacked George VI in the face once
- Got an elderly woman to adopt him in his 30s so he could add "von" to his name, complained when Göring wouldn& #39;t call him by it, Göring got mad and tried to smack him with a baton but couldn& #39;t because he was too fat
- Accidently smacked George VI in the face once
- Got an elderly woman to adopt him in his 30s so he could add "von" to his name, complained when Göring wouldn& #39;t call him by it, Göring got mad and tried to smack him with a baton but couldn& #39;t because he was too fat
-Tried to negotiate for the return of Germany& #39;s African colonies even after being ordered to stop by Hitler
-Tried to get the USSR to join the Axis
- Believed a secret cabal of noblemen ruled Britain from the shadows
- Ordered that all British diplomats heil Hitler
-Tried to get the USSR to join the Axis
- Believed a secret cabal of noblemen ruled Britain from the shadows
- Ordered that all British diplomats heil Hitler
Rudolph Hess
- Stole a plane so he could negotiate an end to the war with a minor Scottish noble he had never met but had heard about from a guy who had once years before,
- During his trial, he claimed to suffer from amnesia to avoid questions, finally admitted he was lying
- Stole a plane so he could negotiate an end to the war with a minor Scottish noble he had never met but had heard about from a guy who had once years before,
- During his trial, he claimed to suffer from amnesia to avoid questions, finally admitted he was lying
Pétain
- Was already retired before WW1
- Was a womanizer
- Suffered from hallucinations that he was commanding armies in battle and that naked women were dancing around his room
- Was already retired before WW1
- Was a womanizer
- Suffered from hallucinations that he was commanding armies in battle and that naked women were dancing around his room
