Word: berchtesgaden
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...them to stud their frames with marble, onyx and semiprecious lapidary and to incise their names in five-inch letters. Among nearly 2,000 lesser art works are monumental glorifications of the autobahns, tiers of titillating, bulky Brünnhildes in the buff, and pleasant vistas of Berchtesgaden. One canvas, called Judgment of Paris, shows three hefty maidens placidly awaiting the award of the golden apple from Paris, who is a lad dressed in a Hitler Youth uniform...
...days before the convention, there was a real smear. In a report from Germany, CBS's Daniel Schorr clearly implied that Goldwater would, on his planned (and now canceled) post-convention trip to Berchtesgaden, seek a liaison between U.S. conservatives and German "right-wing elements"-which, in the U.S., smacks of Naziism. Barry hit the ceiling, sputtered that the report was "nothing but-and I won't swear, but you know what I'm thinking-a dad-burned dirty lie." For a while he barred CBS cameras from his convention headquarters...
...mother, Magda Schneider, was a weepy, waltzy actress who was the Jeanette MacDonald of prewar Austria. Her father, Wolf Albach-Retty, was a celebrated actor, and is still a staple of the Vienna Volkstheater. Now divorced, the couple in those days had a retreat at Berchtesgaden, where Romy (a contraction of Rose-Marie) was raised by grandparents. There she playacted alone before her mother's mirror in the fairy-tale house among the snow-laden Bavarian firs...
...covert gesture of affectionate farewell, a blue shirt that she had given him and that he hated. Ironically, one of the most dramatic chapters concerns not Hess but his faithful aide Major Karlheinz Pintsch. Assigned by Hess to break the news to Hitler, Pintsch journeyed apprehensively to Berchtesgaden, his romantic belief in the heroic flight dwindling as he neared the Führer's presence. Hitler invited him to lunch, had him arrested after the dessert...
...reply must be to ask why they were not." For though Chamberlain himself had realized the urgent need for rearmament four years before Munich, and later described Hitler as a "lunatic," he could close his eyes to all unpleasant evidence. He left the first meeting with Hitler at Berchtesgaden in 1938 radiating confidence that "here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word...