Word: berchtesgaden
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Even so, there will still be some rather choice amenities for the conquerors. The U.S. Army intends to hang on to Bavaria's two best ski resorts - Garmisch and Berchtesgaden-which it seized for furlough centers. Some of Germany's choicest hunting grounds, forbidden to the vanquished for the past six years, will still be reserved for American sportsmen hankering after a bit of pheasant, roebuck or rabbit...
Three thousand workers toiled three years to build Adolf Hitler's sumptuous Bavarian "Eagle's Nest" atop a mountain at Berchtesgaden. Allied bombers in a few seconds blasted a group of chalets below it (including one of Hitler's and several for smaller Nazis), but left unharmed Hitler's high-perched eyrie, with its wide view of the white-tipped Austrian Alps. Since then verboten territory to Germans, the Berchtesgaden villas have been a red-hot G.I. tourist attraction. Souvenir hawkers have stripped them, selling tiles from Hitler's bathroom to G.I.s at 5 marks...
...newcomers of the 4th Division were quick to get the word from the occupation troops: U.S. soldiers never had it so good. They can go almost anywhere and do almost anything without paying anybody. On a generous furlough schedule, they can run over to such recreation centers as Berchtesgaden and Garmisch in the Bavarian Alps on "temporary duty," stay in some of the world's most luxurious hotels...
Modern history has no more dramatic scene than Wu's speech at Lake Success. The world heard only by dim and dignified hearsay of Hitler raging at statesmen who came to Berchtesgaden; it saw only the absurd arrested motion of Hitler's triumphant jig in the Forest of Compiègne. Millions by television and radio saw & heard Wu spew forth Communism's unappeasable hatred, cloaked in Communism's lies and muscled by Communism's paranoid vocabulary of denunciation...
...five days after the U.S. occupation of Berchtesgaden, a Counter-Intelligence Corps sergeant named George Allen loaded three German male stenographers into a car and drove five miles outside town to the wreckage of a Luftwaffe motor pool. There, after a search, Sergeant Allen found what he was looking for: a big hole in the ground, 20 feet wide and four feet deep, full of charred paper. He began poking around, soon plucked out a sheaf of papers that had escaped the flames. What he held in his hand, said the German stenographers, was a complete shorthand record...