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    Obersalzberg is a mountainside retreat situated above the market town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, Germany. Located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) south-east...
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    Dokumentation Obersalzberg is a museum in the Obersalzberg resort near Berchtesgaden, providing information on the use of the mountainside retreat by Nazi...
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    The bombing of Obersalzberg was an air raid carried out by the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command on 25 April 1945 during the last days of World War II in...
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  • The Obersalzberg Speech is a speech which Adolf Hitler delivered in the presence of Wehrmacht commanders at his Obersalzberg home on 22 August 1939, a...
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    The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's holiday home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany. Other than the Wolfsschanze...
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    erected atop the summit of the Kehlstein, a rocky outcrop that rises above Obersalzberg near the southeast German town of Berchtesgaden. It was used exclusively...
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    vacationing in the Berchtesgaden area in the 1920s. He purchased a home in the Obersalzberg above the town on the flank of the Hoher Goll and began extensive renovations...
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  • to visit him. In 1928, she and Geli moved to the Haus Wachenfeld at Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden, where she became his housekeeper and later was put...
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    Photography. Gretl spent much time with Eva at Hitler's Berghof retreat in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps, where she enlivened the formal atmosphere by having...
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    assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944, and Hitler's private home, the Berghof, at Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden, where he frequently met with prominent foreign and...
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    favourite destination of Adolf Hitler when he was at the Berghof at Obersalzberg. After architect Roderich Fick had expanded the house Wachenfeld to the...
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    property of the former Gebirgskurhauses Obersalzberg (formerly the Pension Moritz; from 1928: Platterhof) in Obersalzberg. The cabin was the location where...
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    government of Nazi Germany for the time of Adolf Hitler's presence on nearby Obersalzberg. The buildings of the Reich Chancellery and the bunkers and the northeast...
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  • for US troops after World War II in the mountain (Alpine) retreat of Obersalzberg, Germany. The former Pension Moritz boarding house, boasting opulent...
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    Soviets. Göring left Berlin and moved to the south, reaching his estate at Obersalzberg on 22 April. The same day, upon learning that an order to counterattack...
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  • Contemporary History "Dokumentation Obersalzberg: News". www.obersalzberg.de. "Dokumentation Obersalzberg: Home". www.obersalzberg.de. Hellmuth Auerbach, "Die...
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    other designs did he (Adolf Hitler) execute the same care as he did his Obersalzberg house: that of the Reich War Flag and his own standard of Chief of State"...
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    stages of the war, she and her mother moved to their mountain home at Obersalzberg, near Berchtesgaden. After the war, she went to a girls-only school,...
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    Gretl often accompanied Eva on her subsequent trips with Hitler to Obersalzberg. In the 1930s she bought a summer house [pl] on the beach near Pobierowo...
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  • At the conclusion of his Obersalzberg Speech on 22 August 1939, a week before the German invasion of Poland, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler reportedly said "Who...
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    promontory is located west of the Hoher Göll main summit, high above the Obersalzberg mountain retreat near Berchtesgaden. It is chiefly known for the Kehlsteinhaus...
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    Magda and Joseph Goebbels with their children, Hilde (left), Helmut (center), and Helga (right), visit Hitler on the Obersalzberg, Kehlstein House, 1938....
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  • Linguee.com. Mitchell, Arthur H. (2007). Hitler's Mountain: The Führer, Obersalzberg, and the American Occupation of Berchtesgaden. Macfarland, p. 15 Evans...
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    of war, Hitler delivered a speech to his military commanders at the Obersalzberg: The object of the war is … physically to destroy the enemy. That is...
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    never admitted it, and it’s very important," before alluding to the Obersalzberg Speech and the contested line, "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation...
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  • mother, Bernile pressed to the forefront of the stream of visitors on Obersalzberg to grab Hitler's attention. Six-year-old Bernile’s bright blue eyes and...
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  • (Führersonderzug) Civilian residences Braunau am Inn Linz Vienna (Meldemannstraße dormitory) Munich (16 Prinzregentenplatz) Obersalzberg (Kampfhäusl)...
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    Speer (1905–1981). Margret was named after her mother. She lived in Obersalzberg until the end of the war. After the imprisonment of her father, the family...
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  • attacks on Luftwaffe policy, I took advantage of a small conference at the Obersalzberg to point out the weakness of Luftwaffe armament resources, and voiced...
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    total of 57 days. Afterwards, Hitler spent the next three months in Obersalzberg before returning to Rastenburg for the next nine months. Hitler's entourage...
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