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    The Eagle’s Nest was still on fire early on Saturday By Patrick Jackson

    Published 3 hours ago

    Police in the southern German state of Bavaria have detained a suspect during a fire at Adolf Hitler’s Alpine mountain retreat, the Kehlsteinhaus, also known as the Eagle’s Nest.

    Dispatchers in Traunstein received a fire alarm from the building at 21:15 local time (19:15 GMT) on Friday and firefighters found it engulfed in flames.

    Difficult terrain was hindering efforts to extinguish the blaze and it was still burning early on Saturday, police said, with some 200 emergency personnel deployed. There were no reports of injuries.

    The Nazi dictator used the retreat, which lies above the town of Berchtesgaden, as a part-time seat of government and met commanders there to plan the invasion of the USSR in 1941.

    Hitler also used the area as a backdrop for propaganda films portraying him as a lover of animals and nature.

    A criminal investigation is under way to determine whether the suspect is connected to the fire.

    The Eagle’s Nest (file photo)

    Completed by the Nazis in 1938, the Eagle’s Nest escaped destruction after their defeat in 1945.

    Since then, it has become a popular tourist destination and houses a mountain inn.

    It serves as “a cautionary reminder of the abysses of the inhumane Nazi dictatorship”, according to its official website, external.

    During World War Two, Hitler and his followers were responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people, including the mass murder of European Jews.






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    5 days ago

    TVs made to soviet design famously caught fire, this was before this all printed circuit board deal was perfected. they just used cardboard-like material for that, it was flammable, absorbed water over time, and there were too closely spaced traces with high voltage on them

    People just don’t remember shit that broke down quickly













  • DCM is also about the only good solvent left that is also resistant to lewis acids. I think that some people were pushing for benzotrifluoride as a replacement, but it just straight up doesn’t work as well where i tried it

    Tbf before “do it in DCM” was “do it in CCL4” or “do it in benzene”, DCM just works without nuking operator’s liver

    Lots of these new green solvents are also annoyingly polar so perhaps they can be used as replacements of other polar solvents but not anything else. I’m not using cyrene, fuck that

    TFA is used because it works and is shelf-stable. Replacements like HCl in ether or ethyl acetate are bitch to make and when these can be bought, they have to be refrigerated all the way. Straight up not worth the effort on small scale