Hitler's Berchtesgaden: A Guide to Third Reich Sites in the Berchtesgaden and Obersalzberg Area

by Geoffrey R. Walden

Overview

In 1925, Adolf Hitler chose a remote mountain area in the southeast corner of Germany as his home. Hitler settled in a small house on the Obersalzberg, a district overlooking the picturesque town of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Obersalzberg area was transformed into the southern seat of power for the Nazi Party. Eventually, the locale became a complex of houses, barracks and command posts for the Nazi hierarchy, including the famous Eagle's Nest, and the mountain was honeycombed with tunnels and air raid shelters. A bombing attack at the end of the Second World War damaged many of the buildings and some were later torn down, but several of the ruins remain today, hidden in woods and overgrown. Hitler's Berchtesgaden: A Guide to Third Reich Sites in the Berchtesgaden and Obersalzberg Area will help history-minded explorers find these largely forgotten sites, both on the Obersalzberg and in Berchtesgaden and the surrounding area, with detailed directions for driving and walking tours.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781552261
Publisher:	Fonthill Media
Publication date:	03/19/2015
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Preface 5

Acknowledgements 6

Introduction 7

1 Berchtesgaden and the Obersalzberg in the Third Reich 11

2 Berchtesgaden Area Tours 22

Driving Tours Nos. 1-6 22

Walking Tours Nos. 1-2 42

3 Obersalzberg Tours 55

Walking Tours Nos. 1-6 56

Driving Tours Nos. 1-4 109

4 Eagle's Nest (Kehlsteinhaus) 121

5 Königssee Area Sites 137

Appendices 143

Photo Credits 152

Bibliography 153

Index 158