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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'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'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't call him by it, Göring got mad and tried to smack him with a baton but couldn'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't call him by it, Göring got mad and tried to smack him with a baton but couldn't because he was too fat
-Tried to negotiate for the return of Germany'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
