{"id":50522,"date":"2023-02-19T23:13:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T22:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50522"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:06:31","slug":"chilling-ruins-the-remains-of-the-berghof-the-hitlers-house-in-the-bavarian-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/19\/chilling-ruins-the-remains-of-the-berghof-the-hitlers-house-in-the-bavarian-alps\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilling ruins: the remains of the Berghof, the Hitler's house in the Bavarian Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very fond of history, and knowing certain facts makes you see some sites in a different way, including the one we are going to address today.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/29\/steinstucken-the-curious-island-of-liberty-that-was-surrounded-by-communist-germany\/\">Steinst\u00fccken: the curious 'island' of Liberty that was surrounded by communist Germany<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/05\/09\/the-road-of-the-bones-a-mass-grave-of-the-stalinist-genocide-of-2000-km-long\/\">The Road of the Bones: a mass grave of the stalinist genocide of 2,000 km long<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Obersalzberg is a town in the southeast of the German state of Bavaria<\/strong>, near the border with Austria. It is located in the Bavarian Alps and is famous for being the vacation spot of many Nazi leaders, including <strong> Adolf Hitler himself, who had his second home there, known as the Berghof.<\/strong> The then Nazi leader He rented a house there in 1924, after his prison sentence for the coup in Munich. <strong>he ended up buying the house in 1932 <\/strong> with the proceeds from the sale of his famous book \"Mein Kampf\". After the Nazis came to power in 1933, <strong>the Hotel Zum T\u00fcrken, located near the house, was used by the SS as accommodation <\/strong>for the sentinels who guarded the entire compound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are many films and photos showing Hitler, his mistress Eva Braun and other Nazi leaders in that house<\/strong>, which had beautiful views of the Alps. On April 25, 1944, <strong>bombers from 617 Squadron RAF, the famous \"Dambusters\", attacked Obersalzberg and left the Berghof in ruins<\/strong>, in an attempt to to prevent Hitler from taking refuge there to continue the resistance. Actually, the dictator stopped using the house in the summer of 1944. <strong>In 1951 what remained of the house was demolished.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seeing the few remaining ruins of that house, <strong>one gets chills when thinking about the decisions that were made there, which caused the death of so many millions of people.<\/strong> Obersalzberg is still today a place with beautiful landscapes in the Bavarian Alps, but marked by the stigma of his dark past. <strong>I hope those ruins serve to remember what the inhabitant of that house did and that humanity never forget such horror<\/strong>, so that history does not repeat itself. This Sunday, the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheHistoryUnderground\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The History Underground<\/a> has published an interesting and very well documented tour for those ruins:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exploring the Ruins of Hitler&#039;s Berghof | History Traveler Episode 273\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eoQNEv6_Jx0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see below some captures of the video. <strong>Here was the SS sentinel booth <\/strong> located at the entrance to the compound of the residence of the Nazi dictator:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52699315503_3d6f6308dc_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hotel Zum T\u00fcrken, which was located near the house of the genocidal.<\/strong> It was badly damaged in the bombing of 1945, but it was restored in 1950.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52698304082_36322b79e9_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the lot that Hitler's house used to occupy.<\/strong> The house was demolished to the ground. Today a forest has occupied the place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52698821866_52d3890492_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the few things that remain of the house is the retaining wall that surrounded it.<\/strong> It was not demolished to prevent landslides caused by the rains.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52699315493_0ed9bcb68f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Under the house there were tunnels and an underground shelter<\/strong>. All the upper accesses of those tunnels were blocked with the demolition of the house. The only access that remains is this, which was a secondary escape door from the tunnels.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52698821891_c5a713bc56_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very fond of history, and knowing certain facts makes you see some sites in a different way, including the one we are going to address today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,16877],"tags":[18526,1623,18527,18521,10929,18524,10872,18523,11950],"class_list":["post-50522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-ruins","tag-617-squadron-raf-dambusters","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-bavarian-alps","tag-berghof","tag-germany","tag-hotel-zum-turken","tag-national-socialism","tag-obersalzberg","tag-third-reich"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-28 20:01:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}