Maybe not a bad idea, but has anyone else heard about this? If this is true, then supposedly by this Summer (2008), the mystery surrounding what will become of the ruins of the Berghof will finally be resolved . . .
Does anyone have any updated information? Has construction began, and if so, how far along is it? Does anybody have any recent photographs of the area that would indicate such activity?
What will this do for the Zum Turken, do you suppose? And what about all of the other "secret remnants of the time-period" that we all love to talk about and enjoy re-discovering in abandonment?
Here is the article from back in October that I just came across:
Hitler's mountain eyrie to become history centre<O
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Copyright 1997 Newspaper Publishing PLC
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved
Does anyone have any updated information? Has construction began, and if so, how far along is it? Does anybody have any recent photographs of the area that would indicate such activity?
What will this do for the Zum Turken, do you suppose? And what about all of the other "secret remnants of the time-period" that we all love to talk about and enjoy re-discovering in abandonment?
Here is the article from back in October that I just came across:
Hitler's mountain eyrie to become history centre<O
></O>Independent, The (London), Oct 29, 1997 <O></O>
<!-- google_ad_section_start -->The remains of Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat will be converted into a historical document centre in order to prevent the site from turning into a neo-Nazi haunt, state officials said yesterday. The former British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini were among Hitler's guests at his house, the Berghof, on the slopes of the Obersalzburg above <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><ST1lace w:st="on">Berchtesgaden</ST1lace></st1:City> on the Austrian border. It was also where Hitler planned the German invasion of the <ST1lace w:st="on">Soviet Union</ST1lace> and where he and his armaments minister, Albert Speer, conducted the Nazis' Second World War campaign. The Berghof and the chalets of other senior Nazis such as Hermann Goering, the head of Luftwaffe, and Martin Bormann, one of Hitler's closest advisers, were damaged by an Allied air raid in April 1945. Seven years later the ruins were blown up on the orders of the Bavarian state government. The grounds were later used by US military forces for recreational purposes until 1995. "The new documentation centre will be housed in part of the bunker system and in a new building which is going to be constructed on the grounds of the complex," a spokeswoman for the Bavarian finance ministry said. "The documentation centre aims to put the Berghof in its historical context through exhibitions," she said, adding that the centre would open early next summer. The idea of setting up such a centre came from historians and local politicians after lobby groups complained that the retreat had become a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists. They also charged that uncritical Hitler photograph albums as well as banned Nazi symbols and propaganda were being routinely sold there. The Fuhrer's long sojourns at the mountain retreat with members of the Nazi elite and their families were documented in detail in hundreds of photographs and in colour film. Eagles' Nest, an alpine lookout 1,834 metres (6,000ft) above sea level, is the only building remaining from the original Berghof retreat and is today a mountain-top cafe. This was built as a 50th birthday present for Hitler. - Reuters<O></O>
></O><!-- google_ad_section_start -->The remains of Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat will be converted into a historical document centre in order to prevent the site from turning into a neo-Nazi haunt, state officials said yesterday. The former British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini were among Hitler's guests at his house, the Berghof, on the slopes of the Obersalzburg above <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><ST1
lace w:st="on">Berchtesgaden</ST1lace></st1:City> on the Austrian border. It was also where Hitler planned the German invasion of the <ST1lace w:st="on">Soviet Union</ST1lace> and where he and his armaments minister, Albert Speer, conducted the Nazis' Second World War campaign. The Berghof and the chalets of other senior Nazis such as Hermann Goering, the head of Luftwaffe, and Martin Bormann, one of Hitler's closest advisers, were damaged by an Allied air raid in April 1945. Seven years later the ruins were blown up on the orders of the Bavarian state government. The grounds were later used by US military forces for recreational purposes until 1995. "The new documentation centre will be housed in part of the bunker system and in a new building which is going to be constructed on the grounds of the complex," a spokeswoman for the Bavarian finance ministry said. "The documentation centre aims to put the Berghof in its historical context through exhibitions," she said, adding that the centre would open early next summer. The idea of setting up such a centre came from historians and local politicians after lobby groups complained that the retreat had become a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists. They also charged that uncritical Hitler photograph albums as well as banned Nazi symbols and propaganda were being routinely sold there. The Fuhrer's long sojourns at the mountain retreat with members of the Nazi elite and their families were documented in detail in hundreds of photographs and in colour film. Eagles' Nest, an alpine lookout 1,834 metres (6,000ft) above sea level, is the only building remaining from the original Berghof retreat and is today a mountain-top cafe. This was built as a 50th birthday present for Hitler. - Reuters<O></O>Copyright 1997 Newspaper Publishing PLC
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved
its further up from the site actually
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