Word: berchtesgaden
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Meanwhile the Nazis began to hole up in their southern redoubt in real earnest. The area around Berchtesgaden, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Starnberg and Miesbach was guarded by a double cordon of Himmler's blackshirts, and no one could pass without proper credentials. If, as seemed likely, the Russians and the western Allies should soon meet south of Berlin, the bastion would be cut off from northern Germany. Then the Allies would see how seriously the Nazis intended to fight in it, and how well they were able...
...Hitler, Goebbels and Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler had retired to Berchtesgaden for a Wagnerian finale...
Where General Patton might be in the next three hours he himself did not know. If Patton got a hunch-and Ike Eisenhower gave him the green light-he might peel off with a tank column for Berlin, or Leipzig or Berchtesgaden, at a moment's notice. If Patton's wildest dream came true, he would find Adolf Hitler in a German tank and slug it out with him. But for the moment, dreams aside, Patton had reason for calm and happy reflection. He was having the time of his action-choked, 40-year Army career...
Building the Bastion. Meanwhile, the Nazis went ahead with preparations for their last stand. In Bolzano and Klagenfurt concentrations of 55 troops were reported, and work was being rushed on fortifications. Hitler's own Berchtesgaden was said to be another strongpoint. According to the stories reaching neutral capitals, the mountains around the Nazi strongpoints now bristle with defense works, repair shops, arms and munition depots. The caves of the ancient salt mines around Königs-See have been converted into subterranean hangars and air-dromes; into factories making guns, planes and synthetic gasoline...
...turned out, had strafed Berchtes-gaden's rail yards-four miles from Hitler's house. Some pilots dropped their auxiliary fuel tanks (which usually explode when they hit) near the castle. Hitler may have been scared-if he was home. The squadron leader had never heard of Berchtesgaden before last week; to him, it was just another kraut village. But Berchtesgaden, like Tokyo's Imperial Palace, is now a place where U.S. planes wander like tourists, taking snapshots and committing nuisances...