Is that where Easy Company ended up at the close of the war in Band of Brothers?
Seems to have had pretty nice interior decorating skills for a psychopathic dictator. I mean, compare this to, say, Saddam’s shagadelic love palaces.
I suppose that one is expected to make some joke or other about decor and paperhanging, but it’s all too dull. <yawn>
T’is indeed. Wasn’t that a great way to end a brilliant series? The lads kicking back drinking the fucekrs Champers and stealing his silver. Class 
It was, by all accounts, a lovely place.
After the war, the whole area was transformed into an Armed Forces Recreation Area for the American occupation force, and later the American NATO forces. The small part of the area occupied by Hitler’s home was secured and heavily guarded.
This was accepted and even welcomed by the German postwar government, as it prevented Nazis and neo-Nazis from using the place as a rallying point.
American servicemembers still go skiing there.
I dunno. Both of these things seem fit for lileks.com if ya ask me.
Aww, the kids love Hitler! And Hitler loves the kids.
From the article:
“Bitte, mutter, may I ride in the aeroplane?”
Seriously, though, that was an interesting, somewhat surreal article to read. Amazing how Hitler could still have been viewed in such a friendly, jocular way (the article appeared after the Nazis took the Sudetenland, though it almost certainly went to press before Kristallnacht, which occured in the second week of November).
Thanks for posting that.
This looks very much like the place we visited while vacationing in Germany in the late sixties. If it is the same place, you get to the top by taking an elevator inside the mountain.
Of course, it’s entirely possible that the man had more than one mountain hideout, so maybe this is a different one.
I can’t find it on their site, but the reason the Guardian has those pages up is that they ran a feature within the last year about the guy who’d found the article and posted it on his own website. However, the article is still under copyright and whoever now technically owns Home and Garden got wind of the site and were asking him to take it down. In response, he argued that, while they might be legally correct, it was just an interesting old article that he wanted to share and that they were suffering no financial losses. Some sort of agreement was eventually reached.
I suspectthis is the place you visited (click on photo for enlargement). This is the one with the porch where you see Hitler meeting people in those shows on the History Channel. It was usually referred to as the Eagles Nest and I believe it is now a restaurant.
Hitler also had a large estate in the town of Berchtesgarden. It was destroyed by the RAF late in WWII.
I was there in the 70’s, visiting a friend in the US Army who had the cushiest job in the military - ski patrol. They basically had to “practice” skiing for mountain rescue operations and they were based at this place - (in the barracks behind the main house) that was being used as a hotel for servicemen and their families.
It looked pretty much the same as in the photos in the article. Same wood panels and large halls, etc. I was only there for about 3 or 4 days, and as it is when you are young and with wild GI’s, there was quite a bit of beer involved and I don’t remember all that much about architecture.
“Honey, we’re off to spend the weekend with the Hitlers again, did you call the cat-sitter?”
“Oh, I hope those awful Goebbels won’t be there, that Magda is such a cow, and Josef just goes on about ‘Juden, Juden, Juden,’ all through dinner!”