Word: berchtesgaden
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Hitler, who "had no love for foreign newsmen," was not quite so cordial. Visiting Berchtesgaden in 1932, Kaltenborn's prodding on anti-Semitism ("I purposely irritated him with my first question") provoked the Führer to shriek: " 'Who are you to talk about who should be allowed in Germany?' " Kaltenborn says that "got us off on the tone which dominated the entire interview...
Private Affair. The Germans interned Leopold in the royal chateau at Laeken. He regarded himself as a prisoner of war, refused to exercise royal functions. He visited Hitler at Berchtesgaden; his purpose, he later said, was to get better treatment for the Belgians. It was at Laeken, in September 1941, that he married Mary Liliane Baels...
...Poison. Day after day the Socialist Le Peuple lit into Leopold. The paper recalled that in November 1940, while a "captive" in his castle, Leopold had run down to Berchtesgaden for tea with Hitler...
Very few Germans have any real remorse for 1939-45. "That was war," they say, and wave a hand to dismiss even the atrocities. They flock to Berchtesgaden by the thousand for pilgrimage climbs over Hitler's favorite mountain. You meet them even on the slopes-marked Verboten to Germans-around his chalet and eagle's nest eyrie. They turn stony faces to foreigners on the mountain as though the latter's mere presence on the sacred soil were sacrilege...
...Russians. If the presence of Japan at Montreux relegates this treaty to the scrap-heap, Europe can look to a new wave of forced agreements between unequal bargaining units that would spell death to the U.N. system and smack too strongly of the pilgrimages of European statesmen to Berchtesgaden...