Word: berchtesgaden
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...Anglo-Soviet bargaining. Though Russian vanity was nicked because Prime Minister Chamberlain did not visit the Kremlin in person, observers of practical Diplomat Strang's busy career (companion of Captain Anthony Eden on his 1935 swing through Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Prague; translator for Hitler and Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, Godesberg, Munich; British charge d'affaires in Moscow during the difficult spy trial of the Metropolitan-Vickers engineers) thought he had a better chance than bigwigs to find the elusive formula, clinch an Anglo-Soviet agreement. The fact that he is no great friend of Russia was also counted upon...
Latest big von Papen intrigue took place in Austria, where he was sent as Ambassador to prepare the way for Anschluss. His big moment came when he arranged the Hitler-Schuschnigg conference at Berchtesgaden which sealed the fate of independent Austria. Since then he has been living on his estate in the Saar, where he rides, fishes, plays tennis. Last winter he delivered several innocuous lectures in Sweden...
Besides Half-Brother Alois, who now runs a prosperous Berlin café (discreetly under his first name), Adolf Hitler has a full sister and a half-sister. For a time his half-sister, Angela, served as his housekeeper at Berchtesgaden. His father, also named Alois, was a source of great shame to the Führer: he had three wives* and died a drunkard. Furthermore, Father Alois was the illegitimate son of an Austrian peasant girl, Maria Schicklgruber, and a miller named Johann Hiedler, who refused to recognize the child. The boy therefore grew up under his mother...
...ushered into Herr Hitler's work room. There, besides the Führer and his aides, were numerous army generals, who throughout the interview were periodically sent out for mysterious phone calls to Prague. (The same form of pressure was applied to Kurt von Schuschnigg at Berchtesgaden...
...François-Poncet, former French Ambassador to Germany and now to Italy, went to the Bavarian Alps last October to take leave of Führer Adolf Hitler, he thought he was expected at the familiar Berghof, the Führer's well-known mountain chalet near Berchtesgaden. Not far from the Berghof, however, the driver took a different road, the car began to ascend a highway winding five miles up a steep mountain. Soon the highway became a mere shelf on the side of the mountain. Suddenly the road ended before two big bronze doors built...