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Return to Adolf Hitler's Berghof is bittersweet for two World War II vets
Two men who helped raise an American flag over Adolf Hitler's Alpine retreat will return to Bavaria to mark the event, this time not expecting resistance by diehard SS units. The sprawling main house near Berchtesgaden was a favorite getaway for Adolf Hitler and his entourage during the 1930s and early 1940s. But on May 5, 1945, it was the province of Sgt. Ross Brown and private John Miller, with their fellow soldiers of the 7th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division. The GIs rose the stars and stripes, signaling that they had seized the last refuge of the Third Reich.     [ mlive :: 2008-05-03 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

Hitler in Berghof: photos, film + A walk through Obersalzberg bunker
Photos and film footage from Adolf Hitler's Berghof in Obersalzberg Before and after 1945. Notice: parts 1-3. See also 'A walk through Adolf Hitler's Obersalzberg bunker'.     [ youtube :: 2007-11-23 ]

Hotel Zum Türken criticized for swastika-covered Nazi-Era Bunker
Bavaria, Berchtesgaden, Obersalzberg: Hotel Zum Türken, near ruins of Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat Berghof, is allowing guests to view a swastika-covered bunker from WWII in its cellar. Critics say the structure has been turned into a shrine for neo-Nazis, who come to see the Nazi propaganda and swastikas carved on its walls. Zum Türken and bunker were once the quarters for Hitler's personal security staff and bodyguards from the SD. "...there can't be any hidden or open glorification of the Nazi regime," said Kurt Faltlhauser. 95% of the guests are foreigners, many from the US, the owner was not acquiring neo-Nazi customers, said attorney Jan de Haan.     [ dw-world :: 2007-09-05 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

Nazi shrine found in bunker in Hitler's Berghof mountain lair
German tv has uncovered a Nazi shrine in a bunker in Adolf Hitler's Obersalzberg mountain lair near Berchtesgaden in Bavaria. Prosecutors said they were laying charges against the owner of the World War II bunker for allowing Nazi slogans and swastikas to be scrawled on its walls. According to a report by broadcaster ARD, the bunker is advertised in the hotel located above and visitors pay an entry charge. During WWII Nazis closed Berchtesgaden to the general public as a maze of bunkers was constructed on the Obersalzberg. The area evolved into a second power-centre after Berlin.     [ earthtimes :: 2007-09-01 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

Berghof revisited: Hitler Mansions vanished, but their bunkers remain
More than 60 years have passed, but Berchtesgaden still struggles with its heritage of having been Adolf Hitler's hideaway. The Tourism Office is reluctant to promote the former Obersalzberg site and answer questions about the remains of houses of the German dictator and other Nazi key figures. It was in the early 1930s that Hitler, Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, Martin Bormann and architect Albert Speer built estates on the mountain slope facing Berchtesgaden. But the true secret of Berghof was concealed deep within its limestone rock: a honeycomb-like network of bunkers and tunnels interconnecting the Fuhrer's personal section with those of the other Nazi leaders.     [ greatreporter :: 2007-08-24 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

The Dokumentation Obersalzber exhibition center in Berchtesgaden
Berchtesgaden, a village atop the Bavarian Alps, was once the second home of Adolf Hitler. The home videos of Hitler prancing about the porch of his villa, the Eagle's Nest, with Eva Braun and his German shepherd Blondi, bring to a mind a kinder, gentler time. A time when there were crystal nights, pride rallies, much more affordable Volkswagens - and the slaughter of millions. Oh, I forgot about that part. Plus there was that WWII thing. OK, so maybe it wasn't such a great time, but that doesn't mean we can't turn it into a mountain resort, does it? It doesn't, because the last year 166,000 tourists made there way to the Dokumentation Obersalzber exhibition center.     [ citybeat :: 2007-06-16 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

In the Bavarian Alps, a town struggles to overcome Hitler's legacy
The narrow road climbed higher, first past pastures and stone houses, then leaving even the fir trees to reach blinding, snowcapped peaks. But as Erin Kelly stepped into a tunnel on the last leg of her journey to the Eagle's Nest, she was ready for jolting contrasts. Just imagining Adolf Hitler walking down the dimly lit shaft gave her a chill. "I definitely felt something walking through the tunnel. It was kind of eerie thinking about the person who went through here." During the 1930s and 1940s, Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's Nest - 1,830 meters high in the Bavarian Alps - were Hitler's playground where he frolicked with Eva Braun and his dog Blondi.     [ pr-inside :: 2007-06-13 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

WWII veteran revisits Hitler's Eagle's Nest to put memories to rest
You saw satisfaction as Jim Beam stood by the opening to the 990-foot tunnel of Untersberg marble leading to a rotunda where he had waited earlier for an elevator, which took him up inside the mountain to Adolf Hitler's Eagle's Nest, a granite tea house, on a ledge of the Kehlstein peak overlooking Germany and Austria - figuratively on top of the world. Beam, tugged at his 101st Airborne Division cap, and remembered May 1945 when he was sent up the mountain to find top Nazi leaders. He claim to be the third man to enter The Eagle's Nest. "We didn't find anybody but a cook. He asked if we wanted food. We told him, no. We wanted liquor. We drank all of Hitler's liquor."     [ decaturdaily :: 2007-06-09 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

Obersalzberg: Has lived under the shadow of Adolf Hitler
Obersalzberg has lived under the shadow of its most infamous resident, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. "That is where I spent my most pleasant times, and conceived my great ideas," Hitler said. The story is told at the Dokumentation Obersalzberg museum. It tells how Hitler first visited in 1923 and was inspired by views of the Untersberg. He bought a house, which he expanded into his beloved Berghof. Other top Nazis built villas nearby. When the war started going against Nazi Germany in 1942, bunkers were burrowed into the mountainside. One of the largest surviving bunkers is under Dokumentation Obersalzberg and is part of the exhibit.     [ JWR :: 2007-01-25 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

A visit to Adolf Hitler's mountain stronghold Eagle's Nest
As I fingered the jagged green marble of a chipped-up fireplace mantle, my guide told me the story. This German lodge was a gift to Adolf Hitler for his 50th birthday in 1938. His inner circle all contributed. And the fireplace was a little extra gift from Mussolini. In 1945, Allied soldiers chipped off countless relics. While many people call the entire area "Hitler's Eagle's Nest," it actually refers to just the mountaintop chalet. This excessive lodge was only the tip of a vast Berchtesgaden compound. What remains is now wide open to visitors. Because it was here that he claimed to be inspired, some call Berchtesgaden the "cradle of the Third Reich."     [ seattletimes :: 2006-10-06 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

Obersalzberg and Eagle's Nest
Obersalzberg lives under the shadow of its most infamous former resident, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Obersalzberg has 3 main draws: One famous, one secret, one eternal. The famous is Kehlsteinhaus, known as the Eagle's Nest, a $150 million present for Hitler's 50th birthday in 1939. As a present, it was a dud. Hitler was afraid of heights, and rarely visited. The second most important site in Obersalzberg is an open secret. It is an unmarked place in a dense forest: a massive stone wall of what was once Hitler's Berghof. Neo-Nazis have erected small shrines and carved SS lightning-bolt figures in the trees.     [ tracypress :: 2006-08-11 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

Wolf at the door: Adolf Hitler transformed Obersalzberg
One night in May 1923, a man using the name Herr Wolf appeared at the Pension Moritz in a German village near the border of Austria. He knocked on the door of the room of Dietrich Eckart, an early Nazi leader. "Diedi, it is Wolf," the man said. Adolf Hitler had arrived in Obersalzberg. The next morning, Hitler stepped out of his room to a view of the Untersberg, the mountain that towered nearby. Hitler found it inspirational. In 1928, he began renting a house with a view of the Untersberg. With the Nazis rise to power in 1933, Hitler bought the house and renamed it the Berghof, "mountain palace". Other Nazi leaders built their own places nearby.     [ theage :: 2006-08-08 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

An old soldier leaves behind a record of war's horror
Before S.R. Kinder died he dropped a few hints that his old home might hold more than just the cluttered odds and ends of a long lifetime. When his nephew Stephen Frazier started going through the house, box by box, He turned up albums that trace Kinder's lengthy military career. The pictures from Europe capture Kinder's grinning Army buddies in the 102nd Infantry Division, posing with bottles of booze and beside downed Messerschmitts. There are also postcard shots of elegant German castles and rivers. One page is captioned "Hitler's mountaintop eagle's nest," and includes flyover shots of the dictator's hideaway.     [ mysanantonio :: 2006-04-03 :: World War II Photographs ]

On Hitler's Mountain - A Picturesque Alpine Village In Bavaria
Irmgard Hunt spent her early years in Berchtesgaden. In 1934, Hunt's parents, who "praised Hitler for saving Germany", settled in the area. As a very young child, Hunt was taken to see the summit, the Obersalzberg, where Hitler had reconstructed a modest summer cottage into a massive luxury residence named "The Berghof". On that day she posed upon Hitler's knee for a photograph. Her childhood was played out against the backdrop of Nazi headquarters, separated only by a fence from the house where she lived. From the windows of their school, the children could glance up to the top of the mountain and view the Eagle's Nest, a 'fantasy building'.     [ scotsman :: 2006-01-02 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

The Eagle's Nest: Nazism, Totalitarianism, Tourism
Perched high atop an alpine peak, near the Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden, is one of the most famous, and infamous, houses in the world. The Eagle's Nest-Adolf Hitler's personal mountain retreat-sits amid swirling clouds and affords a breathtaking view of the picturesque countryside and the Königsee, a pristine alpine lake that is famous for its incredibly placid surface. It was here that the Führer contemplated many of the Third Reich's most heinous crimes; it was here that he intimidated foreign heads of state to accede to his megalomaniacal whims, and it is here that thousands of tourists flock every year, anxious to experience natural grandeur and to contemplate the history of the place.     [ VersusMag :: 2005-10-28 :: Ruins & Bunkers of Third Reich ]

Hitler's eyrie - country house guarded by 2,000 SS men
The Nazi leaders' retreat is happy to welcome a new wave of visitors - tourists. It was here in the Berghof, a Bavarian country house guarded by 2,000 SS commandos, that Hitler argued with Chamberlain over Sudetenland, and ordered blitzkriegs against Poland and Czechoslovakia. "Those were the best times of my life," he said later. "My great plans were forged there."     [ Telegraph :: 2005-08-27 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

Art from Hitler's lair - On the terrace at Hitler's house
Richard Reiter used to enjoy milk and cookies on the terrace at Adolf Hitler's house. Reiter's story has never been told before. A former soldier of the Waffen SS and colonel in the Hitler Youth, he never hid his past, but didn't exactly shout about it either. Now, at age 77, he says it's time to talk. As a boy, he even called Hitler "Onkel Wolf" -- Uncle Wolf -- not as a term of endearment, but because Richard's aunt was Hitler's girlfriend, and Wolf was her pet name for the dictator. That was in the 1930s, in pre-war Berchtesgaden, where Reiter and his brother would go to Hitler's Bavarian home and play with the Nazi leader's cherished Alsatian, Prinz.     [ Times Colonist :: 2005-08-07 :: Nazi gold & Hidden WWII treasures ]

Hitler`s mountain retreat now a luxury hotel
A controversial new luxury hotel and spa has opened on the site of Adolf Hitler's retreat in the German Alps. The new hotel, the Intercontinental Resort Berchtesgaden, is located on the Obersalzberg mountaintop. Hitler's "Eagles Nest" above the town of Berchtesgaden served as a part-time seat of government where he and other Nazi leaders often met to plan Germany's assault on Europe and the Holocaust.     [ IANS :: 2005-07-27 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

Chambermaid for Hitler - Wearing his slippers while cleaning
Fascinating new insights have emerged into the private life of Adolf Hitler from his former chambermaid, who has admitted that she used to stand in his slippers while cleaning his room. Anna Plaim, who came from the Austrian village of Loosdorf, was 20 years old when she was employed as a chambermaid for Hitler in 1941. In a book she describes how she worked at the Berghof, Hitler's mountain retreat in the Bavarian Alps. Plaim's account of life at the Berghof adds weight to the suggestion that Hitler did have a sexual relationship with Eva Braun, even though the two slept in separate rooms.     [ scotlandonsunday :: 2005-02-13 :: Eva Braun: Hitler`s Mistress & Wife ]

Luxury and Wellness in Hitler's Alpine Nest
A luxury hotel is about to open near the spot where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler once relaxed. Resort officials hope that fancy spa treatments and an exhibit about the Nazis will help overcome the shadows of the past. Hermann Göring lived on the site. Hitler wrote part of "Mein Kampf" here and had his own retreat built nearby. The Nazis made this alpine hideaway their second capital. But on March 1 2005, the InterContinental Resort will try and plant another reputation on the famous and infamous Alpine area of Obersalzberg -- that of luxury and wellness.     [ dw-world :: 2005-02-08 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

Berchtesgaden - If you could see the place now, Adolf
It was in 1925 that Hitler first came to the Berchtesgaden area, where he finished writing Mein Kampf. He had just served a 9-month sentence. When he became Chancellor in 1933, he bought and rebuilt the house he had rented, which he called the Berghof. Its huge windows provided panoramic views of the peaks. Hitler's Berghof lifestyle was contradictory. He received Lloyd George and Mussolini here, plus Edward VIII who in his letter wrote 'Thank you for the lovely hours that we spent with you.' Yet between affairs of state, Hitler's Berghof days were a monotony of meals and inane movies. This dull routine was captured by Eva Braun's home movies.     [ guardian :: 2002-11-10 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

My cousin, Eva Braun - Days at Berchtesgaden
As a 20-year-old, Gertrude Weisker joined her cousin Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress at Berchtesgaden for lonely days of swimming and killing time in the dying months of the war. Now in her late 70s, Gertrude insists neither she nor Eva were Nazis. To me, Eva was always a cipher: a glamorous blonde often filmed playing at different sports, or photographed dressed in Bavarian costume, by the Führer's side. She was very sporty, and to me she was very beautiful. She always changed dresses, five times, seven times a day.     [ guardian :: 2002-04-28 :: Eva Braun: Hitler`s Mistress & Wife ]

Bavaria and Hitler's house - 8 miles of underground tunnels
2001 - The Bavarian government is turning Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat, high in the south German Alps, into a museum tourist attraction. When the US army left in 1995 the government in Munich did not know what to do with the six square-mile complex straddling the Obersalzberg Mountain. What would anyone do with such bizarre relics - with eight miles of underground tunnels, for example, a housing estate for SS officers, Hermann Goering's picnic site, a bomb-proof kennel for Blondi, Hitler's Alsatian, and a brass-lined lift which rises through a hollowed-out mountain, its power supplied by a bank of U-boat engines?     [ telegraph :: 2000-05-09 :: Eagle`s Nest: Berghof - Obersalzberg ]

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