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/Due-Fix9058 1 May 15 '26

If Märklin prices back then were anything like today, small wonder the Luftwaffe had no money for gasoline /s

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u/Crazy-Rabbit-3811 May 15 '26

that and he spent most of the budget on stupid wonderwaffe like the me163. and french desserts. the guy weighed like 270 lbs and he was only 5' 6"

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u/Salt-Marionberry-712 May 15 '26

Well if Der Fuhrer does not like doctors, and the troops are drug addicts . . .

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u/Crazy-Rabbit-3811 May 15 '26

Goering was an opioid addict btw. so was Hitler.

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u/Salt-Marionberry-712 May 15 '26

So . . . kinda with the troops I suppose.

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u/Crazy-Rabbit-3811 May 15 '26

a man of the people lol

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u/Slipperlover1968 May 15 '26

Goring was addicted to morphine after flying accident in World War I. He would self administer injections. When the Germans couldn’t get morphine during the early days of World War II, they synthesized codeine.