It roamed the seas. It served an evil dictator. It survived a war. And only then did it make

its way to an auto repair shop's bathroom, in Florence, New Jersey. We're talking about Hitler's

toilet. This is a story about how something innocuous can become something sinister and

the power of a good one-liner. I'm Dylan Thoris, and this is Alice Obscura, an exploration

of the world's strange and unusual places. And today, we're headed to a New Jersey mechanics

bathroom. How exactly did this artifact end up there? And what does it mean? That's after

this. The ship was called the Aviso Grill. It was built in Hamburg in 1934 to serve a newly

powerful Nazi party. And over the next few years, it carried top-ranking Nazis, including Hitler

himself, around Europe. And for a time, it was the largest yacht in the world, one symbol

among many of the Nazis' frightful power and terrifying ambitions. When the Allied forces

won World War II, the ship was seized and came into American custody. Hitler's former yacht,

the Grill, has sailed her last voyage. Her last bell has been struck. The Grill is heading

to the scrap pile at Borden to New Jersey. This is from an old newsreel. The Aviso Grill

was a huge boat, almost 380 feet long. A close-up shows a bell on the deck bearing the Nazi emblem,

and the reel ends up showing an official in a certain tie taking the ceremonial first torch

to the hull. From here, the Aviso Grill was taken a mild downriver to a salvage

yard in Fieldsboro, New Jersey, which is just a few miles from Florence. This much we know,

the rest is legend. The owner that I'd bought the garage off of,

same car ony, he used to play cards like every Friday night. There was a group of guys that

played poker here at the garage. That's Greg Kofelt. He's the current owner of Greg's

Automotive Repair in Florence. And Greg bought the shop from Sam Carlani, who took it over when

it was already a really old shop. So old that when it opened, it didn't have indoor plumbing.

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