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Other towns fell in Bavaria: Oberammergau of the Passion Play, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, scene of the 1936 Olympics, Dachau of evil concentration-camp fame. At Dachau 32,000 political prisoners were freed, and at nearby Moosburg the U.S. Third tore down the gates for 110,000 Allied war prisoners...
Meanwhile the Nazis began to hole up in their southern redoubt in real earnest. The area around Berchtesgaden, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Starnberg and Miesbach was guarded by a double cordon of Himmler's blackshirts, and no one could pass without proper credentials. If, as seemed likely, the Russians and the western Allies should soon meet south of Berlin, the bastion would be cut off from northern Germany. Then the Allies would see how seriously the Nazis intended to fight in it, and how well they were able...
Strauss had been ordered to put up a dozen air-raid refugees from Munich "as Hitler's guests" at the composer's country house in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is near Hitler's Berchtesgaden eyrie. Strauss refused. As an old man of 80, he said, he felt entitled to privacy and peace. Nazi officials took the matter to Hitler himself. The Führer declared that Strauss's recalcitrance would mean the cancellation of his birthday celebrations throughout the Reich. Strauss replied that Hitler could cancel anything he wished, and added: "It was not I who started...
Skiers ignored Hitler's demand for 20 blond Aryans to compete at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Himmler went to Norway and repeated the invitation, with threats. No results. Olympic Champion Birger Ruud announced that he would burn his skis before he would compete in compulsory Germanic sports...
Occasion was the annual wintersports meet at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, site of the 1936 winter Olympics. No records were made by the skaters in the Olympic Stadium, none by the skiers on the glittering slopes of the Eckenberg. The big show was the crowd itself, which came in well-heeled thousands, filled the villages' hotels, overflowed the sleeping cars parked on sidings, backed up all the way to Munich, two hours away by train. Some skied and skated, more took chocolate on the sunny terraces, all drank and danced until after dawn in bars and casinos and behind the shuttered...