Word: berchtesgaden
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Guiding such frail missiles as Royal Coachmen and Grey Hackles, NATO's General Lauris Norstad fished a chill, rushing trout stream in the Salzburg Alps, put in a four-day vacation near Hitler's old aerie at Berchtesgaden. From morning golf and afternoon angling he took off just enough time to make a short statement for the American Forces Network on the preparedness of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: "We still have some way to go, but we are now over the hump. Our strength is very real and very significant...
...Norstad's youthful appetite for rest disappeared. Though he and Hawaii-born Isabelle Norstad, slim and chic in her Balmain gowns, cannot escape a hectic official social whirl, Norstad makes a ferocious effort to schedule two or three nights a week at home. He ducks off to Berchtesgaden for a weekend's fishing, plays golf when he has a chance, delights in his hi-fi set (Fairchild amplifier and pickup, Tannoy speaker), which he plays at window-rattling volume. He has given up pipe smoking and drinks sparingly. "You've got to be fit in this business...
Begun in June, 1954, the USAREUR (U.S. Army, Europe) Religious Retreat House, Alpine Inn, Berchtesgaden, Germany, has served the religious-retreat needs of all denominations since that time. As of this date, some 26,000 military and civilian personnel stationed in Europe with the Army and Air Force have participated in retreats at Berchtesgaden...
...Beastly to the Germans. Though Novelist Habe (real name: Jean Bekessy) is Hungarian-born, he peddles the familiar made-in-Germany apologia that most Germans were as innocent as the children of Hamelin town, and that only the wicked Pied Piper of Berchtesgaden seduced them into evil ways. More surprising. Novelist Habe, who rose to the rank of major in the U.S. Army, was decorated, and served with the occupation forces, argues that the Americans have acted as louts and barbarians preying on a helpless, suffering people. In this false equation, miscarriages of justice such as the imprisonment...
Declared Dead. Adolf Hitler, 56, by his own hand (gunshot wound) on April 30, 1945; in Berlin; by the District Court at Berchtesgaden, West Germany...