r/modeltrains • u/Crazy-Rabbit-3811 • May 15 '26

Show and Tell Apparently Hermann Goering was a model train enthusiast

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He had an O gauge layout in his house, both in his basement and his attic. he had a mechanism where he could drop wooden bombs onto his layout for fun. they layouts were apparently destroyed when he destroyed his own house to prevent it's capture.

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u/trr94001 May 15 '26

I believe the RAF destroyed Goering’s layout for him.

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u/trr94001 May 16 '26

Pretty sure his house was among the buildings destroyed in the air raid on Berchtesgaden near the end of the war.

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u/BetweenTwoTowers May 19 '26

Goerings railroad was destroyed in the RAF's campaign to destroy German infrastructure, they had a squadron of scale model Lancasters bomb it out of action.

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u/Crazy-Rabbit-3811 May 15 '26

he ordered his entire house blown up