Word: berghofs
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...week after the bomb exploded in the Berghof, the Nazis' master psychologist had got hold of himself again, went on the air to tell the German people what they must now do, what was about to be done to them. Alone in an empty, echoless studio, the little Doktor made one of his most remarkable speeches...
...Nazis, said Knyphausen, are preparing to use selected military units to form "islands of resistance," chiefly in the mountain regions. They mean to emulate the Partisans. Headquarters will be near Berchtesgaden, where Hitler, Mussolini, selected quislings and lesser German dignitaries can defy the Allies from the Wagnerian Berghof. Arms, supplies and lavish radio equipment are already being gathered. The radio will be used to guide a vast network of underground fanatics, enrolled under the slogan: "Join the permanent fight for European freedom...
...winding road from Berchtesgaden surged Adolf Hitler's six-wheel staff car. At the bronze gates beneath the brooding Berghof, Hungary's Regent Nicholas Horthy climbed stiffly out, entered the rock, rode 300 feet straight up through granite to the aerie's hushed reception hall where the Führer waited. Russian soldiers plunging toward the Carpathians had made the summons urgent. Briefly, now, and harshly, Hitler outlined his demands: the time had come to "coordinate" Germany's eager little ally. Full military occupation would be necessary, and a more tractable government; henceforth, too, more Hungarian...
...must have been keenly aware of that fact one morning last week when he stretched a tentative toe into his green-tinted bathtub, while he gazed at his face with its little mustache and flopping hair, as he covered his chin with lather (at the Berghof the great dictator is his own barber), while he sipped his Chinese tea, spooned his porridge and chewed his morning toast covered with a mountain...
...more tenderness to animals now. He must forget now how he once made pets of mice, how he wept when his canaries sickened and died, how he gave nuts to the squirrels around the Berghof, how, when a huge crowd was gathered for the ceremonies in Vimy last summer a cur dog appeared from the forest and came through those hundreds of people straight...