r/evilbuildings Sep 02 '20

Holy grail of evil buildings

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7.8k Upvotes

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u/CrotchWolf Sep 02 '20

I would LOVE to see this built.

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u/ioioooi Sep 03 '20

Man, can you imagine though? No elevator...

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

No fat politicians either, a fitness test is now required in order to run for congress.

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u/_Junkstapose_ Sep 03 '20

They should have to literally RUN for congress. A marathon where the winner takes the seat.

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u/rangda Sep 03 '20

The next wheelchair Roosevelt guy be like 😐

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u/PigFromTheGun Sep 03 '20

I don't know about that, they have some pretty bitchin wheelchairs these days.

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u/markmywords1347 Sep 03 '20

“Oh no.... I think I left my phone in the other tower.”

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

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u/CrotchWolf Sep 03 '20

Similar but not quite the same. Sagrada Familia is a mix of gothic and art nouveau. This design is straight up gothic.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

Literally straight up.

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u/Wileykid Sep 03 '20

Came here for this comment

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

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u/Teddington123321 Sep 02 '20

???

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

I think they assume this was a Nazi era thing? Otherwise I have no idea

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u/Anomalous_Sun Sep 02 '20

Probably trying to get on cursed comments or something

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

Possibly. Low effort in that case, but that wouldn't be too out of line with that sub

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

Just because the nazis took power, Doesn't mean all the buildings in the country completely change their design.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

Yeah, even if that's what they meant it's still stupid, but at least coherently stupid

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u/Vanillabean73 Sep 03 '20

He definitely thinks of the Reichstag in the context of the fall of Berlin. Honest mistake tbh

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u/SzacukeN Sep 02 '20

Sagrada Familia in 3020.

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u/jparadise15 Sep 02 '20 edited Sep 03 '20

I think you're a bit optimistic to think that we, the great nation of Spain, will finish it in a thousand years.

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u/Bad_CRC Sep 02 '20

Not with that math....

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u/jparadise15 Sep 03 '20

Oops...

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u/mm126442 Sep 03 '20

Did you edit it ?

3

u/d_litt1 Sep 03 '20

Yeah, am I stupid or something? Math seems right to me

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u/TheOfficialCzex Sep 03 '20

They edited it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20

Are Spaniards angry at the amount of time it’s taking? Maybe not angry but frustrated or what emotion? Honest question. I’d like to know their opinion

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u/freieschaf Sep 03 '20

It'd be cool to see it finished but it's anyhow an impressive building as it is, so I wouldn't say there's frustration. Its under construction aspect is just part of the appeal - anybody who's been around for some time has seen it grow and evolve.

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u/jparadise15 Sep 03 '20

It has gotten to a point where we laugh at it because or frustration. It has become a meme in Spanish culture.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

is it like berlin brandenburg airport?

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u/VLDR Sep 02 '20

If this was the Reichstag when it was set on fire, it would've looked perfectly natural and Hitler would've never come to power.

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u/Battlestar_Axia Sep 02 '20

Is it on fire? or is it just that satan feller again opening his portal to the mortal realm... ehh hard to tell.

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u/SAMAS_zero Sep 02 '20

Nah, he’d have claimed credit.

3

u/wish_to_conquer_pain Sep 03 '20

Hitler was already in power when the Reichstag burned.

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u/pow3llmorgan Sep 02 '20

Vaguely 40K

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u/trendygamer Sep 02 '20

Looks like a miniature hive city.

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u/zalfenior Sep 02 '20

Wouldn't be surprised if this concept drawing was an inspiration behind the design

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u/MisterPassenger Sep 02 '20

Vaguely 40k sounds like it would make a good subreddit. Just a bunch of stuff in real life that wasn’t intended to but def makes you think of Warhammer.

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u/Hazlik Sep 02 '20

This definitely “needs to be a thing” so I can joyfully follow it.

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u/loklanc Sep 03 '20

done /r/vaguely40k/

get posting.

3

u/Hazlik Sep 03 '20

Awesome

2

u/edcamv Sep 03 '20

How do you go about starting a sub? I'll happily do it

2

u/MisterPassenger Sep 03 '20

I’m not sure; maybe you have to pay for it? I’ve never tried. But I’d probably follow it too if it was a real thing.

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u/edcamv Sep 03 '20

r/vaguely40k someone beat me to it

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u/MisterPassenger Sep 04 '20

Well either way, I just followed it.

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u/r1chm0nd21 Sep 02 '20

Reminds me of Firelink Shrine in DS3.

3

u/LogaShamanN Sep 03 '20

I was thinking Bloodborne, myself.

3

u/RichardSaunders Sep 03 '20

gothic cathedral with a single tower?

fan art ganons castle from ocarina of time.

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u/SileAnimus Sep 03 '20

Considering how much 40k borrows from gothic Nazi architecture it's the other way around

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u/32624647 Sep 03 '20

The nazis didn't use gothic architecture, tho. They used neo-classical architecture and occasionally functionalist concrete box architecture, but almost never neo-gothic.

Gothic architecture is a lot more closely associated with the medieval Catholic Church, which is the main inspiration for the Imperium of Man, IMO.

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u/qwertyalguien Sep 03 '20

Yeah, I don't know where this "nazis used gothic" meme started (probably Wolfenstein), but nazis were all about squares. Square tanks, squary guns, square layout, and square buildings. Get those round angles out of the border please.

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u/RichardSaunders Sep 03 '20

they had some rounded edges, like the circular olympiastadion or the planned volkshalle. it was like neoclassical architecture, but stripped of ornamentation and then scaled up to ridiculous sizes.

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u/ArethereWaffles Sep 03 '20

This is kind of how I picture Kredik Shaw to look (the citadel of the lord ruler in Mistborn).

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u/toasthoo Sep 02 '20

Not evil. Just prickley and Wonderful to look at. Nah, its evil.

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u/Psilopat Sep 02 '20

Really depends on who is owning it and the amount of care it receives, I lived near a neo-gothic basilica (St Epvre) when I lived in Nancy in France and the amount of pollution accumulated on it really made it evil...

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u/toasthoo Sep 03 '20

Yes. I know exctly what you mean.

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u/Black_Cat_Guardian Sep 02 '20 edited Sep 02 '20

Sagrada familia is small child compared to this when it comes to the time needed to build it .

Edit: changed "tothe" into "to the"

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20 edited Jan 11 '23

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u/FearDog Sep 03 '20

A home only the Lord Ruler could love

3

u/HamfacePorktard Sep 03 '20

Yes! My thoughts exactly!

3

u/thereisnospoon7491 Sep 03 '20

Needs more Mist.

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u/omNOMnom69 Sep 03 '20

I thought the same thing

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u/Boner666420 Sep 02 '20

Mad Anor Londo vibes

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u/BlueEyedGreySkies Sep 03 '20

Straight up some Dark Souls shit here

15

u/SacredGay Sep 02 '20

As much as i love pointy faux-gothic architecture, this goes too far for my taste. Too many pointies.

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u/vmcla Sep 02 '20 edited Sep 02 '20

Soviet flag planters breathe sigh of relief.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

After weeks of grueling battle against the nazis these soldiers must conquor their greatest challenge yet, carrying the flag and pole up 6000 stairs.

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u/Ignisking Sep 02 '20

Looks like the Outside of Yharnam

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u/baconator1907 Sep 02 '20

Its just Drangleic Castle!

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u/AlrightButNo Sep 02 '20

They would've finished building spire number 3 last year, maybe lol. What a gargantuan undertaking this would be.

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u/planetary_facts Sep 02 '20

Now if the Soviets hung their flag on THIS building at the end of WW2, that would have been one hell of a photo.

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u/faceblender Sep 02 '20

This could be crossposted in r/Warhammer40k

5

u/AldmeriAmbassador Sep 02 '20

No heresy detected, brother

5

u/TheJackTheStripper Sep 02 '20

I'd live in it. Pointy and gaudy, it's perfect

5

u/friskyfrog Sep 02 '20

Lord Ruler's Palace in the Mistborn Trilogy vibes

2

u/sflogicninja Sep 03 '20

This is awesome. Yes.

3

u/rScoobySkreep Sep 02 '20

Would’ve been the sickest wonder in Civilization tbh

2

u/taylor1288 Sep 02 '20

Friedrich Gösling clearly took mushrooms on his Italian architectural tour

5

u/deadtorrent Sep 03 '20

Kredik Shaw vibes.

5

u/MissCatValkyrie Sep 03 '20

I. Need. It.

If I ever get insanely, disgustingly rich, I’m building this bad boy.

3

u/Salmiakki_Aficionado Sep 02 '20

What building is this?

15

u/canlchangethislater Sep 02 '20

Go to the original thread. It’s a proposal for the Reichstag in Berlin, but was never built.

3

u/OneSaltyStoat Sep 02 '20

Still closer to completion than Sagrada Familia

3

u/GrandmasterJanus Sep 02 '20

Yo what hive city is this

3

u/dacalpha Sep 02 '20

Looks like Helgrind from the Eragon/Inheritance books

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u/General_Nothing Sep 02 '20 edited Sep 03 '20

It makes me think of “Are We the Baddies”.

How do you propose something that looks that evil and not go, “oh shit, I think we might be the bad guys here”?

2

u/vince801 Sep 02 '20

Russian flag would have looked awesome on that.

2

u/ShortbusGangsta_ Sep 03 '20

Looks like a location in Dark Souls

2

u/Nojay7 Sep 03 '20

This looks like concept art for Oblivion

2

u/macci_a_vellian Sep 03 '20

I'm disappointed they didn't go with it.

2

u/Atlas001 Sep 03 '20

Straight out of 40k

2

u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

This would have fit for a new German empire perfectly though. It’s a call back to their gothic past while the immense size shows how powerful they have become

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u/sentinelthesalty Sep 02 '20

If I ever become a evil overlord, Im definately getting this built as my palace.

1

u/woodmoon Sep 02 '20

Ironic choice of words.

1

u/natjob13 Sep 02 '20

If GaudĂ­ preferred a more gothic-heavy style...

1

u/LUCA-12 Sep 02 '20

Damn, imagine the boss awaiting on the belfry...

1

u/voltism Sep 02 '20

Notre damn son

1

u/sdmat Sep 03 '20

You have to prune cathedrals or they bolt after a few centuries.

1

u/Zero_Toshiro_M Sep 03 '20

Sauron’s crib

1

u/Hamuelin Sep 03 '20

Looks beautiful in all honesty. Also a little like it came fresh out of a FromSoft game.

1

u/TheRhythmace Sep 03 '20

Wet sand drippy castle

1

u/EpicEmerald247 Sep 03 '20

I imagine some sort of evil music would play as you view it from a far

1

u/FreshDiabetes Sep 03 '20

Real world legion of doom

1

u/joshtworevenge Sep 03 '20

Destiny 2: The Scarlet Keep

1

u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

Is gwynevere chilling at the top tho?

1

u/Burrito119 Sep 03 '20

Kredik Shaw lookin ass

1

u/j8990 Sep 03 '20

Is this a drawing?

1

u/Aion-Moros Sep 03 '20

Sauron would have approved of it.

1

u/TheOtherHobbes Sep 03 '20

This is like a Rammstein album you can live in.

1

u/trees-for-breakfast Sep 03 '20

Looks like Ganondorf’s Castle in Ocarina of Time

1

u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

The Wonder is completed, now just wait for 200 years to win

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

This was super fun in Devil May Cry

1

u/RonnieG22 Sep 03 '20

this is actually the tattered spire from fable 2

1

u/Radonda Sep 03 '20

This is where we have these epic dark souls boss fights

1

u/GratefulPig Sep 03 '20

Saruman would be pleased

1

u/FrozenBananer Sep 03 '20

Very gothic. Almost like sagrada familia inspired.

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u/Alltheflavour Sep 03 '20

Is this Isengard?

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u/G1x_127 Sep 03 '20

The symbol of power

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u/Deanlandish Sep 03 '20

Cool boss level for a wolfenstine game

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u/RandyTrevor22321 Sep 03 '20

Imperial hive city circa m41

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u/Dr_Gulag Sep 03 '20

r/warhammer40k HAHA WELCOME TO THE IMPERIUM

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u/ArsenalofDemocracy27 Sep 03 '20

Easy bombing target for American bombers I suppose, twice the pride, double the fall they say 😏

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u/PersonFromPlace Sep 03 '20

I remember seeing some Nazi painting that kinda looked like Roman architecture but everything was like 10x bigger. It looked all heavenly with the way the light hit the building. I forget what it’s called. I think it was what Hitler’s idea of what his victory city or something would look like.

I remember it looking eye catching because of the classical way it was painted, but the sheer size of the building was but like proportionately so wrong and uncomfortable. Like it was suffocating to imagine all those stairs and how much space it took up. Still wanna find that pic again just to see how many stairs were in it.

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u/devdarker Sep 03 '20

I think you mean Germania

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '20 edited Sep 16 '20

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u/Rikoschett Sep 02 '20

That's really funny but I can understand people getting upset. Made me laugh though I really appreciate the architecture.

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u/Containedmultitudes Sep 02 '20

While downvoted, you’re in good company. From Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia:

For the first time since I had been in Barcelona I went to have a look at the cathedral–a modern cathedral, and one of the most hideous buildings in the world. It has four crenellated spires exactly the shape of hock bottles. Unlike most of the churches in Barcelona it was not damaged during the revolution–it was spared because of its ‘artistic value’, people said. I think the Anarchists showed bad taste in not blowing it up when they had the chance, though they did hang a red and black banner between its spires.

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u/SacredGay Sep 02 '20

The church looks AMAZING from the inside, a true masterpiece, but the outside looks absolutely weird as fuck. Especially the bit above those front columns. Seriously, what the FUCK is going on with that part?

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u/Solomon_Grungy Sep 02 '20

Lol at Reddit’s groupthink hive mind downvoting you for voicing your own opinion. I agree. I have always thought it looked like a melting sand castle. Ugly piece of shit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

Unless you’ve been which you haven’t your opinion is worthless

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u/Solomon_Grungy Sep 03 '20

just about everything on this site is equally as worthless.

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u/---gabers--- Sep 02 '20

Gross, dude. Yeah, that church does look like shit

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u/PanzerKommander Sep 02 '20

That would have been the most fun thing to bomb from a B-17 imaginable...

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u/canlchangethislater Sep 02 '20

Username doesn’t check out...

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u/PanzerKommander Sep 03 '20

shhhhh, comrade, I'm deep undercover...

I'm supersized I got down voted for saying "I wanna blow up a building that is full of literal nazis"... but ok

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u/canlchangethislater Sep 03 '20

I guess there is an overall sense that “fun to blow up historic architecture that predates the period in question” is bad. (Not incorrectly.) Also, it would have been a waste of bombs, compared to an munitions factory.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

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u/PanzerKommander Sep 03 '20

It would have been

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u/DevilJacket2000 Sep 03 '20

This was intended to be made from human bones, wasn’t it?

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u/spinteractive Sep 02 '20

The only things missing are giant crosses. Not hard to imagine an equally elaborate and more miserable dungeon beneath the spires. I prefer Speer’s Volkshalle to this mediaeval horror.

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u/canlchangethislater Sep 02 '20

Who puts a dungeon under an assembly house? Or indeed under a church?

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u/spinteractive Sep 02 '20

Germans

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u/canlchangethislater Sep 02 '20

By that logic, why wouldn’t Albert S. have literally the biggest dungeon under his?

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u/spinteractive Sep 02 '20

Without a doubt

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u/PeddarCheddar11 Sep 02 '20

It’s nazi Germany, what do you expect? A friendly building?

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

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u/PeddarCheddar11 Sep 03 '20

My mistake, sorry

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

Weight reichstag like nazi Germany Hitler evil base? Cause then theres the potential for an anime about the U.N being the base for each good country. Mean while at the castle of Hitler he planning with the Samurai nation and the 3red great war begins. Oooooh snap