A German mountain haunted by Hitler’s ghost FEATURE 09/14/2011 BERCHTESGADEN — On a mountain-bike, the cyclist comes barreling through the Bavarian pine forest, racing along a rough alpine track straight through what would have been Adolf Hitler’s living room. He does not stop, or even glance, at the greyish stone wall set in the nearby hillside which is all that remains of Hitler’s mountain retreat, known as the “Berghof,” his favorite residence for more than 10 years until his death by suicide in a Berlin bunker in 1945. The “Berghof,” half way up a Bavarian mountain, was damaged by bombing at the end of World War II and US occupation forces dynamited what was left. No signpost indicates the way to it, but a notice board does tell visitors they have reached the right spot once they find this historical no-man’s-land, neither quite on, nor off the map, a symbol of how Germany still finds it difficult to deal with its Nazi past.

A German mountain haunted by Hitler’s ghost

FEATURE

09/14/2011
BERCHTESGADEN — On a mountain-bike, the cyclist comes barreling through the Bavarian pine forest, racing along a rough alpine track straight through what would have been Adolf Hitler’s living room.

He does not stop, or even glance, at the greyish stone wall set in the nearby hillside which is all that remains of Hitler’s mountain retreat, known as the “Berghof,” his favorite residence for more than 10 years until his death by suicide in a Berlin bunker in 1945.

The “Berghof,” half way up a Bavarian mountain, was damaged by bombing at the end of World War II and US occupation forces dynamited what was left.

No signpost indicates the way to it, but a notice board does tell visitors they have reached the right spot once they find this historical no-man’s-land, neither quite on, nor off the map, a symbol of how Germany still finds it difficult to deal with its Nazi past..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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