Monday, February 23, 2009

Evil Dictator Fail

Suppose you were an evil mastermind. You've already been inducted into the Evil League of Evil. You've taken over a major industrial power. Your henchmen excel at goose stepping, and your Evil Uniforms are simply fabulous.

Now you turn your evil attention towards England. Your armies marshall. Your air legions blot out the sun. Which place, in all that green and pleasant land do you tell your minions they must spare from destruction? Because it's going to be your vacation spot?

Blackpool escaped being blitzed during the Second World War because Hitler wanted to use the resort as his personal playground.

The Fuhrer planned to watch his triumphant troops goosestepping down the seafront's Golden Mile before unfurling the swastika flag on top of Blackpool Tower.

The plan to spare Blackpool made little military sense. ...

The reason has now been explained in documents recovered from an old German military base.

Gee, ya think?


Wile I think that we can all agree that Operation Barbarosa was the crown jewel of der Fuhrer's geopolitical strategic fail, this is a Faberge Egg of fail - gaudy, useless, and symbolizing the bankruptcy of his vision.

In other recently discovered Nazi documents, we find his plan for Adlerhorst U.S.A located in Atlantic City.

1 comment:

NotClauswitz said...

That's always been the problem with National Socialism - its downward leveling, race to the bottom, in the name of the "heroic" least common denominator - and the upholding of all that is tawdry, tacky, and kitsch. No wonder they were big on eugenics.

One looks to the Italians or French for sartorial success and a dashing wardrobe, but only to the Germans (and get this, even Austrians despised the Germans) for bratwurst. No wonder they invaded Czechoslovakia - it was for the beer.