Fritz Todt

In the Strangers' World, just like in OTL*, Reichsminister Todt died in a plane crash on February 8, 1942. The circumstances were different, although. Mark Toma never heard of Organisation Todt (or the Siegfried Line) until the name surfaced in one of his 'visions'.

Я знал и о том, что Фриц Тодт погиб в авиационной катастрофе в 1942-м. Какая организация? И что делала германская группа армий в венгерском Дебрецене?

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* Our Timeline = Real history

1930: Real Buffalo Revisited

Built by the New York Central Railroad from 1927 - 1929, the Buffalo Central Terminal was constructed to serve the booming Buffalo rail industry. Designed by architects Alfred T. Fellheimer and Steward Wagner, the art deco station was designed to accommodate 200 trains per day, or 3,200 passengers per hour. Along with the main concourse, the station also consists of a 17-story office tower, a four story baggage building, a two story mail building, and train concourse.

 

Images & info: opacity.us

See also: Real Buffalo (I)

Normandie Poster

Should we remind you what happened to the magnificent Normandie in 1942 (OTL)?

Real Berlin at Night

Karstadt Department Store

 

Street view (Ku-Damm?)

 

Kaiser Hotel

 

via fantomas-en-cavalle

 

See also:

Real Berlin

Real Berlin Revisited

Prince Henry

Mark's college was officially called 'Prince Henry Institute'. There were portraits of two princes in the main entrance hall, both named Henry - a (fictitious) Medieval ruler and Prince of Prussia, Kaiser Wilhelm's younger brother. A career naval officer who held various commands and eventually rose to the highest rank in the Imperial Navy, Prince Henry (Prinz Albert Wilhelm Heinrich von Preußen) had a multitude of modern hobbies. He received one of the first pilot’s licenses in Germany, promoted motor sports and was also an avid yachtsman, becoming one of the first members of the "Marine-Regatta-Verein" (Navy Regatta Union).

According to the plot, Prince Henry of Prussia visited the institute in 1911, two years after his retirement from the Navy. In the 1880s image above he's a Korvettenkapitän (Commander), still a long way to go to the High Seas Fleet command. And below, we see him wearing a Großadmiral's insignia:

 

Слева – принц Генрих, князь-просветитель, друг ученых и художников, в честь которого назвали это учебное заведение, не особо задумываясь над тем, что в хрониках XV века его имя связано как минимум с тремя премерзкими историями. Справа – другой принц Генрих, брат кайзера Вильгельма и гросс-адмирал германского флота, осчастлививший институт визитом в год открытия. А дата основания – 4 мая 1911 года – была выбита на мраморной доске вместе с изречением Цицерона: "Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit".

1930: Real Fashion

Evening ensembles by Lucien Lelong

Afternoon dress by Lucien Lelong

Jeanne Lanvin and a model

Special thanks to fantomas-en-cavalle

Princess Elizabeth at War

While visiting an optometrist at the Special Research Bureau, Mark Toma looks at the portrait of Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth) in the ATS uniform. Her Royal Highness was photographed changing a Land Rover wheel. OK, Princess Elizabeth said goodbye to the ATS before the advent of the Land Rover (1948 in OTL) but in the Strangers' World, she served during the Asian War, i.e. in the late 1940s.

Here are some real photographs of the future Queen during her service as a 2nd Subaltern, Auxiliary Territorial Service:

And - a link to a British Pathe newsreel showing Princess Elizabeth receiving a clock from the ATS personnel.

Я оказался в кабинете окулиста – самом обыкновенном кабинете с таблицами на стенах. Без портрета королевы и тут не обошлось, правда этот портрет выглядел весьма необычно: совсем юная Елизавета Вторая в кепи и замасленном комбинезоне меняет колесо у "Лендровера".

1930: Real Vienna Revisited

Elevated railway, still using steam power

 

Official opening of the Karl-Marx-Hof - one of Vienna's largest public housing estates

 

Summer swimming in the courtyard of another housing estate, Fuchsenhof

 

Sunlovers by Aurel Abramovici

 

The Sisters G by Studio Manassé

 

Real Vienna (I)

 

 

 

Talking Heads

Well, we already know Michael Caine as the face (and The Voice) of a deciphering device.

Imagine a similar device somewhere in Germany. Who will be its Talking Head?

Demonic Klaus Kinski?

Kind-hearted Heinz Rühmann?

Seductive Uschi Glas?

Любопытно было бы узнать, кто озвучивает воспоминания ветеранов люфтваффе и кригсмарине – демонический Клаус Кински? Добродушный Хайнц Рюман? А может, соблазнительная Уши Глас ангельским голоском рассказывает о том, чего не было? И где все это происходит – в Потсдаме, поближе к начальству, или в каком-нибудь санатории, затерянном в Баварских Альпах?

1930: Junkers Demotivational Poster

The airliner featured above is the G 38 Deutschland, original certificate number D-2000, designed and built by Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, Germany.

In OTL, she made her maiden flight on November 6, 1929, initiated regularly scheduled service between Berlin and London on July 1, 1931, underwent extensive modernisation in 1931-32 (number of passengers increased to 30), and crashed near Dessau in 1936.

In the Strangers' World (1930), she had larger capacity right from the start and was pressed into regular service as early as in Summer 1930 - with disastrous results, although.

AIRSHIPS ARE SAFER. AND MORE COMFORTABLE

Permanent Hair Wave

"Perm wave", mentioned in Irwin's letter to his kids, was created with the help of monstrous tools.

 

Как горели у вас глаза, когда я рассказывал о плавании через Атлантику на "Аквитании", красавице-старухе, или о полете из Лондона в Париж на биплане Имперских авиалиний, или о могучих паровозах, которые тянут Норд-экспресс через всю Европу! Как ужасалась Эмма, узнав в подробностях о завивке-перманент! И как Алек пересчитывал свои карманные деньги на шиллинги, флорины и полукроны!

1930: Real Paris (II)

Olympia music hall at Boulevard des Capucines

Josephine Baker in her dressing room,

photographed by Luis Ramon Marin