Did Hitler have anything named after him in his lifetime?

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Did Hitler have anything named after him in his lifetime?

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Post by Sid Guttridge » 29 May 2020, 20:40

Aside from the LAH and HJ, did Hitler have anything named after him in his lifetime?

A ship, bridge, aircraft, etc. , etc.?

Goering did, Himmler did, but what about the Hitler himself.

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Post by ostland » 29 May 2020, 21:18

Well, every other street in the Reich was named after him, for one.
"Merken Sie sich eins; bei uns zu Haus' sind nur die Mannschaften Ostmärker. Die Herren Offiziere sind Österreicher! Servus Doktorchen!"


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Post by Br. James » 29 May 2020, 23:12

And most every city and town had a central "Adolf Hitler Platz" where the summer market and the Christmas Fair took place...

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Post by Untersberg » 29 May 2020, 23:28

Not sure about names but every time I see a Beetle I can see his outline sketch he gave to Porsche for his People's Car.
Also he torch bearing run of modern Olympics came directly from 1936.
Berlin's East West Axis....Albert Speers Grunwald trees....lots of things that reach down the years..

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Post by Sheldrake » 30 May 2020, 09:45

Sid Guttridge wrote:
29 May 2020, 20:40
Aside from the LAH and HJ, did Hitler have anything named after him in his lifetime?

A ship, bridge, aircraft, etc. , etc.?

Goering did, Himmler did, but what about the Hitler himself.

Cheers,

Sid
No ships or aircraft. The Nazis were very sensitive about the potential political damage of losing ships called Adolf Hitler. The pocket Battleship Deutchland was renamed Lutzow to avoid a headline of Deutchland sinks. Frankly was is a little puerile and supports a well known stereotype about the German sense of humour . The British weathered the loss of the Prince of Wales and were happy to continue naming ships after royalty. Churchill was rather flattered to have a tank named after him regardless of the opportunities for jokes about unreliability weight and fuel consumption.

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Post by Von Schadewald » 31 May 2020, 01:49

If the Germans had taken Noginsk they had plans to rename it 'Hitlerburg'.

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Post by Sid Guttridge » 31 May 2020, 06:17

Apparently a mountain on The Austrian-German border was renamed Hitlerberg.

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Post by ManfredV » 31 May 2020, 19:02

Von Schadewald wrote:
31 May 2020, 01:49
If the Germans had taken Noginsk they had plans to rename it 'Hitlerburg'.
Really? Any sources? Why an avarage town somwhere in Russia?

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Post by Von Schadewald » 31 May 2020, 19:46

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noginsk

Hitler planned to take Noginsk in the Battle of Moscow, the Abwehr operated there and the place was bombed. The Nazis wanted to rename it Hitlerburg.

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Post by Sid Guttridge » 31 May 2020, 21:20

Hi von S.

I saw that too. Of the eight mentions on the internet, half are on Wikipedia and the other half use exactly the same wording as Wikipedia and are presumably drawn from it. Not one of them offers an original source.

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Post by GregSingh » 01 Jun 2020, 03:36

According to Hans Gstettner, Deutsche Soldatenmale: erbaut vom Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V., from 1940;
in 1938 somebody from German War Graves Commission suggested that WWI German military cemetery in Bitola, Yugoslavia (Die Totenburg deutscher Helden in Bitolj) was renamed/addressed as Hitlerburg.
Schon im August 1938 wurde in einem Memorandum des Vereins behauptet, die Totenburg deutscher Helden in Bitolj, Jugoslawien, wird von der Bevölkerung des Landes "Hitlerburg" genannt.
In March 1941 the subject was picked up by local newspaper in Salzburg on the occasion of Heldengedenktag.

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It seems that never happened officially.

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Post by Von Schadewald » 02 Jun 2020, 14:20

The "Hitler Line" defence line in Italy 1944
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Line
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Post by wwilson » 02 Jun 2020, 19:29

French military personnel called the border village of Sitterswald, "Hitlerdorf" during the Phony War.
Der Bau der Siedlung Sitterswald war von vornherein auch von außenpolitischer Bedeutung. Nicht umsonst setzte man sie an die Grenze zu Frankreich. Man wollte, dass die Siedlung von Saargemünd her gesehen wird. Ziel war es zu zeigen, was das Deutsche Reich für sein Volk tut.[4] In einigen französischsprachigen Berichten wird die Siedlung „Hitlerdorf“, „Hitlersdorf“ oder „Adolf-Hitler-Dorf“ genannt.
from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitterswald

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Post by ihoyos » 03 Jun 2020, 22:45

This top mountain
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Post by CraigM » 04 Jun 2020, 02:27

ihoyos wrote:
03 Jun 2020, 22:45
This top mountain
For those that don't know, this hill has also been known as Eckerbichl and Göringhügel. Herr Göring had his home on the side of it. It was the highest point on the Obersalzberg. I say "was" because it was removed to make room for the Intercontinental Hotel, now called the Kempinski. If you want to see exactly where this hill was, look up "Kempinski Hotel Berchtesgaden" on your favourite map app. You can stay there too, if you have a king's ransom! :D

I can't understand why they went to all of the effort and expense to remove a hill when there's a perfectly good flat area where the SS barracks (Kaserne) used to be. Perhaps it was for the better view (which was significantly reduced with the removal of the hill!).

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