Word: berchtesgaden
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Latest loot: Van Eyck's Adoration of the Lamb which was last week reported in Berchtesgaden...
...Hitler no longer was idolized as he was even a few months ago. The German people, expecting invasion, harried by bombs and grieving over the dead in Russia, resented the Führer's reluctance to visit stricken cities or the Eastern Front, his isolation in bomb-safe Berchtesgaden with chosen aides and such infrequent visitors as gaunt Benito Mussolini...
...Hitler at the present time is surrounded for the greater part by members of the Wehrmacht. He lives among these men on the Obersalzberg at Berchtesgaden. He seldom sees Goring, Goebbels and Himmler. In Hitler's house nowadays certain subjects are taboo; for instance, that of total war and its victims...
...winding road from Berchtesgaden surged Adolf Hitler's six-wheel staff car. At the bronze gates beneath the brooding Berghof, Hungary's Regent Nicholas Horthy climbed stiffly out, entered the rock, rode 300 feet straight up through granite to the aerie's hushed reception hall where the Führer waited. Russian soldiers plunging toward the Carpathians had made the summons urgent. Briefly, now, and harshly, Hitler outlined his demands: the time had come to "coordinate" Germany's eager little ally. Full military occupation would be necessary, and a more tractable government; henceforth, too, more Hungarian...
...rises before 10:30 or 11... insists upon being alone for at least an hour each day. . . . His habits are even simpler than they were three years ago. When he is at his headquarters behind the Eastern Front, he has the same food and drink as the men. At Berchtesgaden he has occasional parties for men guests only, gives them French wine, for which he has developed a strong liking. . . . One of his aides told me that violent rages were often followed by fits of weeping and talk of 'needless bloodshed' which were hushed up by his entourage...