🇩🇪 Braunschweig: The Overlooked City That Changed History

"A quiet German town with a dark footnote in world history..." 🔥 WWII Bombing & Survival • 1944 Air Raids: British forces dropped 200,000 incendiary bombs 💣 • Miraculous Rescue: Firefighters saved 23,000 people from bunkers with a last-minute water line 💦 • Death Toll: ~1,000 (unusually low for such destruction) 💀 Hitler's Backdoor to Power • 1932 Scheme: Brunswick offered Nazi leader an official post (and German citizenship) 🏛️ First attempt: "No way we'll hire a failed postcard artist as professor!" 🎨✖️ (Public outcry blocked it) Second try: Berlin office job = citizenship loophole ✅ • 1933 Irony: As Chancellor, Hitler quit via telegram 📠—Brunswick "gladly" approved ⚠️ Dark Tourism Note • Few physical traces remain (unlike Nuremberg) • Local memorials focus on bombing victims, not Nazi ties #DarkHistory #WWII #GermanyTravel