Word: berchtesgaden
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When Neville Chamberlain flew to Berchtesgaden to placate Adolf Hitler in September 1938, he upset the plans of top-ranking German officers. They were getting ready to arrest Hitler...
...ring notebook, a series of disconnected sentences and phrases, proved a gold mine for a French intelligence officer who found it near Berchtesgaden. He first regarded it as a mere souvenir. Then it was worked into a connected narrative, and peddled to newspapers in a dozen countries...
...musical scapegoat, was back in open favor in Germany. In Munich his music led the program of the first symphony concert played in U.S.-occupied Germany. BBC reported meantime that records of both Mendelssohn and Offenbach (also blacklisted) had been found at Hitler's Berchtesgaden hideaway...
...opened his barracks bag and pulled out a watch he had brought home for his father, a palm-sized pistol he had taken from the Mayor of Mannheim, a .38 automatic* he had taken from a German, a flashlight he had picked up. in Hitler's house at Berchtesgaden and a pile of dirty clothes, which he dumped in a corner...
...correspondent at Berchtesgaden, telling this story last week, also told why Kluge's surrender went wrong. On the day of the rendezvous, Allied air attacks blocked the Third Army party's route to Avranches. By the time the U.S. negotiators arrived, Kluge had gone...