The
Tablet lreports that one of Hitler's toilets has been discovered in Florence, New Jersey of all places. When Greg Kohfeldt bought
Sam Carlani’s auto-repair shop here almost 20 years ago he also acquired Der Fuhrerkhazi too.
According to Kohfeldt, the toilet came off of Hitler’s biggest private yacht, the Aviso Grille
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which was between 400 and 500 feet long, and at the time one of the
biggest private boats in existence. Another resident of
Florence, Dick Glass—an expert on on the yacht stated that the ship was armed, had a crew of 245 men and a private room for Eva Braun.
After the war ended, the
Aviso Grille was taken to the
United States and ended up in the hands of New Jersey shipyard owner
Harry Doan, who illegally charged visitors 25 cents to board and tour
Hitler’s Yacht. However, according to Glass, both Doan and the federal
government wanted to prevent the ship from becoming a memorial to
Hitler, and so it was scrapped in Doan’s salvage yard in the early
1950s. At that point, Sam Carlani needed a new toilet. Doan, his close friend and poker buddy, told him he had one available.
The toilet has all traits of a toilet from a ship—including an open side slot for seawater to be pumped in. The knobs on the faucet bear text written in Blackletter—the famous and classically German family of typefaces that Hitler adored.
While Kohfeldt seems proud of his object’s notoriety, he seems remarkably unexcited by the fact that he owns
Hitler’s toilet. This may be because the story of Hitler’s possessions in Florence only begins with his toilet. When the ship came to the United States, it was taken apart, and many
of the pieces were distributed throughout Florence. One man took the
teak wood from the paneling on the yacht and built himself a porch. The
American Legion Post 194 in Florence still has one of the tables from
Hitler’s ship in their office. The aforementioned Dick Glass used a port
window for his own house; he also collected the brass screws from the
Grille with his father to build their own yacht. Other bits and pieces of the
Grille are scattered throughout nearby towns.
And so on.
So there you have it... the Bog(s) from Brazil perhaps.... ust so long as noody looks to recreate Hitler from his turd leavings
Although she has been dead for nearly four years now Mimi's ghost remains astonished that I have managed to churn out so much rubbish over the past seven years (or seven years come April anyway)
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