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03/08/2026

The N***s weren’t socialists. So why do so many people still say they were? 📚

🤔 It mainly comes down to one word in the party’s name: „Socialist“

🚫 But once in power, the N***s banned socialist and communist parties, destroyed independent trade unions, and murdered thousands of socialists and communists

🏭 Most major businesses remained privately owned, even as the state tightly controlled the economy

⚖️ N***sm was built on racial hierarchy, not the idea that all people are fundamentally equal

📖 So why does this claim keep resurfacing?

➡️ Well ask yourself, who has something to gain from labelling the N***s as socialists?

❓Have you heard people make this argument before?

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Mansudae-Monument-Bow-2014.jpg, Bjørn Christian Tørrissen (2014), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Bundesarchiv Bild 102-15191, Berlin, SA-Kundgebung.jpg, Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-15191 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1982-014-35A, Oranienburg, Konzentrationslager.jpg, CC-BY-SA 3.0
Bundesarchiv Bild 119-1721, Gregor Strasser.jpg, CC-BY-SA 3.0
Bundesarchiv Bild 102-14886, Kurt Daluege, Heinrich Himmler, Ernst Röhm.jpg, CC-BY-SA 3.0

01/08/2026

This bridge has been a border for centuries 🌉

🪵 Long before the Oberbaumbrücke existed, a giant wooden barrier stretched across the Spree here and gave the bridge its name

🧱 Centuries later, the Berlin Wall divided this exact spot into East and West

🎨 Today, the East Side Gallery transforms a surviving stretch of the Wall into one of Berlin’s most famous landmarks

🏊 If Berlin hosts the Olympic and Paralympic Games, this stretch of the Spree could become the venue for triathlon and open-water swimming

🏅 Athletes from around the world competing where Berliners once couldn’t even cross

💬 Would you like to see Olympic events held here?

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Historical Image Rights (Wikimedia Commons)

OberbaumbrückeBerlinL1130132 (2).jpg, Sol Octobris, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S92720, Berlin, Oberbaumbrücke, beschädigt.jpg, Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S92720 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Oberbaumbrücke 16.5.1993.jpg, Gerd Danigel , ddr-fotograf.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
Oberbaumbrücke 19891111.jpg, Roehrensee, CC BY-SA 3.0

10/07/2026

HISTORY FLAKES LIVE!

📆 July 19 at 17:00 at Comedy Cafe Neukölln

🎭 Part of the Berlin Fringe!

💡Join Pip and Jonny for the final episode of season 4 of History Flakes: The Berlin History Podcast

27/06/2026

The N***s once ran one of the most ambitious counterfeiting operations in history 💷

🔒 Known as Operation Bernhard, prisoners at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp were forced to forge British banknotes

💰 The goal was to flood Britain with fake money and undermine the economy

📈 The operation became so successful that the forged notes were almost indistinguishable from the real thing

✈️ Later, the counterfeiters were ordered to produce fake US dollars too

⚠️ As the war drew to a close, the SS tried to erase the evidence and moved the prisoners south

🌊 Thousands of forged banknotes were dumped into Austrian lakes

🎬 The story later inspired the Oscar-winning film The Counterfeiters

20/06/2026

Stalin’s son was captured by the N***s… and his father left him to die

🎖️ Yakov Dzhugashvili was serving as a Red Army officer when he was captured in 1941

📸 The Germans used him in propaganda, hoping to damage Soviet morale

🏕️ Eventually he was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was held alongside other high-profile prisoners

⚔️ After the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, Germany reportedly offered to exchange Yakov for Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who had surrendered to the Red Army

🚫 Stalin refused

🗣️ According to one famous account, he declared: “I will not trade a soldier for a field marshal”

⚡ In April 1943, Yakov died after running into the camp’s electrified perimeter fence

❓Whether it was su***de, despair, or a fatal act of defiance remains debated

🤔 Was Stalin’s refusal a matter of principle… or proof that even his own son was expendable?

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Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1988-078-08 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

J.D. Noske / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-A0706-0018-020 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-78612-0002 / Autor/-in unbekannt / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-B22478 / Rothkopf / CC-BY-SA 3.0

12/06/2026

The N***s got rid of it! 👀

📖 For centuries, German was often printed in Fraktur, a distinctive blackletter typeface

🌍 By the late 1800s, many scientists, businesses and publishers were already pushing for a switch to the more international Antiqua typeface

🏛️ The debate became so heated that it even reached the German parliament in 1911

🦅 After 1933, the N***s embraced Fraktur as something uniquely German and used it extensively in propaganda

⚔️ Then came the problem: people across occupied Europe struggled to read it

📜 In 1941, Martin Bormann ordered that Fraktur be abandoned in favour of Antiqua

✡️ Rather than admit the practical reasons, the regime absurdly claimed that Fraktur was somehow of Jewish origin

🍺 Today, you’re most likely to spot it on old pub signs, traditional restaurant menus or historic buildings - stuff that wants to give you that old world feel, even if it’s not really that old…

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Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-10460 / Hoffmann, Heinrich / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-2008-0922-500 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S55480 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H27915 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R14128A / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H0422-0502-001 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

06/06/2026

Why PARIS? 🇫🇷

🤔 Germany’s most famous square is named after a DIFFERENT European capital

🏛️ Why?

📜 Well, it used to be called “Quarré”

😅 A square named… “square”

🚪 It was one of three grand entrances to Berlin

👨‍🎨 All designed by architect Philipp Gerlach

🔷 The octagonal one was called “Octagon”, the round one “Rondell”, and the square one… well, “square”

⚔️ After Napoleon invaded in 1806 and was defeated almost a decade later, the geometric names were scrapped

🏨 Belle-Alliance-Platz commemorated the hotel where General Blücher stayed before the Battle of Waterloo

💥 Leipziger Platz commemorated the enormous Battle of Leipzig

🏛️ And beneath the Brandenburg Gate, topped by the Goddess of Victory?

🇫🇷 Pariser Platz, the “Parisian Square”

🏆 Victory on top of Paris!

01/06/2026

Why are you late? WWII bombs! 💣

🇩🇪 It’s more common in Germany than you think

💣 That said, Oranienburg was hit super hard for its size

☢️ The uranium facility was indeed blasted to pieces

⚠️ …and Oranienburg is now Germany’s most radioactive town

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Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-78612-0002 / Autor/-in unbekannt / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-78612-0003 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

30/05/2026

Did a German soft drink company really try to convince people Coca-Cola was part of a Jewish conspiracy? 🥤

🇩🇪 In the 1930s, Afri-Cola founder Karl Flach launched a bizarre campaign against Coca-Cola

✡️ He pointed to the Hebrew lettering on Coca-Cola bottle caps and claimed it was evidence of Jewish influence

📢 The campaign played into the antisemitism that was becoming increasingly widespread in N**i Germany

🥤 Coca-Cola survived the attack and continued operating in Germany throughout the 1930s

🚫 But when WWII cut Germany off from Coca-Cola syrup imports, the company faced a new problem

🍏 Their solution was a drink made from whatever ingredients they could find, including fruit leftovers and apple fibres

🍹 They called it Fanta

🤔 Not many advertising campaigns can claim they failed so completely that their rival ended up creating one of the world’s most famous soft drink

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Bundesarchiv, Bild 119-0289 / Unknown author / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H12704 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-10541 / Georg Pahl / CC-BY-SA 3.0

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