So we’re having a bar-b-que and one of my bro’s that I haven’t seen for several years, darn the luck, tells his buds “haw haw haw, my sister used to live on Eagle Nest Lane.” Mrsin and I are:confused:
Go home, google, :eek: Is it some kind of common knowledge that HITLER’s summer home was Eagle Nest? Who the hell knows that kind of shit?
Wowsers, I thought the street name was because we had actual eagles flying above our house on many occasions. I must be a secret NAZI I guess.
Yeah, pretty common knowledge for anyone who has read WWII accounts. You can still visit the place after taking a fairly hair-raising ride on a bus, then ride up an elevator to the chalet. It’s a hell of a view of Bavaria from up there.
Yep, I live there. Hitler is two doors down. Looks similar, just grayer and balding.
Y’know, the Nazis had pieces of “flair” that they made the Jews wear.
We have an Eagles Nest Ct in my county. Along with a dozen or so Eagles Nest something or other subdivisions. We live in the Colorado high country and I’m sure they are refering to real Eagles Nests.
William K. Vanderbilt must have been a closet Nazi then, too.
But he built his in the 1920s, so maybe Hitler took the name from him.
I think it is quite common knowledge. That doesn’t mean everyone knows it or that you’re weird for not knowing.
Basically if you know anything at all about WWII beyond the very basics you would tend to know this. Just as an example, the capture of the Eagle’s Nest is featured in the WWII series “Band of Brothers,” which drew 10 million viewers at the time of broadcast and was one of the highest selling DVD sets of all time.
Yeah, another vote for fairly common knowledge, at least among military history buffs.
It’s common knowledge if you’ve studied World War II or read biographies of Hitler. Outside of that, it’s not.
My point is that it comes up in some extremely popular media that appeals to people beyond Hitler-biography readers or those who actively “study” WWII, causing the knowledge to become more widely spread than the average Hitler factoid.
Where exactly does Godwin come in here?
Godwin’s Law doesn’t apply to every situation that somehow involves Nazis.
You know who was a stickler for definitions? Hitler.
Or visited Germany, or talked to anybody who knows the history, or watched any of a zillion war movies.
There we go.
Personally, I first know the reference from the game (on the C-64, in my group of friends) “Into the Eagle’s Nest.” I’ve heard it many times since, but that’s my initial exposure to the phrase.
Well, I didn’t know and there’s a country club near here that is nicknamed Eagle’s Nest. I suspect my friends who are charter members and yak about it all the time don’t either…or maybe they do. They SAY it’s because there are actual eagles’ nests up on that hill, but I’ve never seen one.
That just means it was Godwined in one step.
I watch Hitler programs a LOT and I wouldn’t have gotten it. If he had said “my sister had a dog named Blondie” on the other hand, I would have laughed too.
I didn’t know that. Though I have studied (and pretty intensively too) both German and history. Guess I haven’t watched the right movies. Or played the right games.
Didn’t know about Blondie, either. Clearly, my education is lacking. Hello, Netflix???
I’ve actually been to the Kehlsteinhaus, so…
In case you’re wondering: it’s not all that and the food is bad. The elevator is impressive, though.
(Hitler rarely went there anyway - the place was a gift from his Nazi friends, but he was afraid of heights…)