Word: berchtesgaden
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Janica didn't retire but the agony of losing seemed to aggravate the pain from the old knee injuries and she underwent three separate operations through the summer, returning to racing in November and slowly improving her results to a fine third place in slalom at Berchtesgaden in January. Her determination moved Ivica to say, "Janica's a great fighter. I think mentally she is the strongest in the World Cup, not only for the women...
...Omen A luxury hotel complex, complete with tennis courts, Jacuzzis and a golf course, is being built on the site of Adolf Hitler's Berchtesgaden alpine retreat...
Evil is easier than good. Creativity is harder than destructiveness. Dictators have leisure time for movies in their private screening rooms. When Hitler was at Berchtesgaden, he loved to see the neighborhood children and give them ice cream and cake. Saddam Hussein patted little Stuart Lockwood's head with avuncular menace and asked if he was getting enough cornflakes and milk. Stalin for years conducted the Soviet Union's business at rambling, sinister, alcoholic dinner parties that began at 10 and ended at dawn. All his ministers attended, marinating in vodka and terror. Sometimes one of them would be taken...
...Conservative Prime Minister of Britain in the spring of 1937. Chamberlain's background was in business; he believed in orderly negotiations. He had no experience in dealing with an unscrupulous improviser like Hitler, but he nonetheless invited himself to a meeting with the Fuhrer. Hitler received him in Berchtesgaden, and soon began ranting about the Czechs. He said he would not "tolerate any longer that a small, second-rate country should treat the mighty thousand-year-old German Reich as something inferior." Shocked, Chamberlain threatened to leave. Hitler, who had never ) previously asked to take over part of Czechoslovakia...
Riefenstahl, 87, who served the Nazi cause by filming such propaganda masterpieces as Triumph of the Will, attended one of Hitler's regular movie nights at his Berchtesgaden retreat in late August...