THE PHANTOM OF THE FUHRER WANDERS AMONG THE ALPINE TOPS.
For last two years I channel UT has three times shown the documentary
Film "Hitler", last time - during the Yugoslavian events.
Basis of the serial created by German cinematographers, -
Newsreel of the Third Reich. Many plots are removed in Oberzaltsberge:
Hitler, Eve Brown, environment of the Fuhrer, visitors... Unique shots still
Time reminds, in what the dictatorship which has been got mixed up on can result
Human blood, a genocide and hatred to democracy. A reminder
Actually: after all in the world Fuhrers yet were not translated.
Near to the Austrian border at bottom of the severe Alpine
Tops the charming resort small town Berhtesgaden was sheltered, and
Hardly above - high-mountainous settlement Oberzaltsberg. This paradise
The corner in the Bavarian Alpes also was chosen for rest by Hitler. 150
Kilometres to Munich, a hand a tax to Salzburg, and hardly further and
Linz - cities which so were liked by the dictator.
Glory of resort place Oberzaltsberg has got still in 1877 g,
When well-founded frau Mayer has constructed here the first hotel
"General Valker". Soon shabby country constructions have acquired
Boards and the hotels rich with private houses.
Having gone through unfortunate beer putsch of 1923 in Munich and having stayed nine
Months in prison, Hitler has arrived to stay for a while to the friend in
Berhtesgaden. To it local beauty, especially have attracted
Oberzaltsberg. In this silent place it also has put last end in
The nazi bible "Main kampf". Since then leader NSDAP it is constant
Removed at the owner a modest rural small house "Vahenfeld". And, having come
To the power, has bought it and under own project has transformed into the smart
Country house "Berghof" - the summer residence.
For the owner in Oberzaltsberg were pulled Goering, Borman, Goebbels,
SHpeer which too have got prestigious houses. From an easy hand
Gess total buying up at local ljuda at home and ground has begun
Plots. Who jibbed, to that "shone" a concentration camp. Old constructions
Took down. Cosy, patriarchal mountain "Farm" gradually
Turned to such barracks settlement.
On excellent qualities of colour panoramic photo Oberzaltsberga
Those years - state in two-three floors white constructions: at home for
Protection, hotels, garages, mail, table, a kindergarten, a cinema,
Sports hall, svinoferma, a hothouse... "Area of the Fuhrer", enclosed
With 27-kilometre fence from a barbed wire, has occupied 10 square
Kilometres. In the closed zone two have laid shossejki. Their sound
The covering impresses to this day.
In "Berghofe" English and French of premiere Chemberlen stayed and
Dalade, Mussolini, Bulgarian tsar Boris, the Austrian chancellor
SHushnig, Romanian dictator Antonesku...
It seemed, the Second World War has spared Oberzaltsberg. But 25
April, 1945 in 10 mornings over the Alpes the first wave was carried by
Heavy English Lankasterov and on settlement the hailstones have fallen
Semiton fugasok. When the smoke has dissipated, all around reminded
Lunar landscape. Explosions have taken down a roof "Berghof" with a penthouse,
razvorotili a part of walls. Only the hotel "the General by miracle was saved
Valker ". Only six persons for existed also another were lost
Settlement - underground.
Thanking the Ukrainian friends from a nice Austrian city
Salzburg to visit "on a visit" at Hitler has had the luck also to me. On
Their Volkswagen we also have gone in Oberzaltsberg.
Have crossed the German border, it is already pure symbolical, passed
Berhtesgaden and on the excellent road constructed still in 30 years,
Have risen uphill. Have taxied on a huge plateau and, as in a city,
Have faced a parking problem: hardly among an assemblage of cars and
Buses have found free "window".
Place fantastic. Burns the sun, the height, still is felt
-- 1200 metres.
In Oberzaltsberge now it is difficult to retire: the silent corner there is no time
Even in everyday life overcome hordes of tourists. Service, certainly, on
Level. In "administrative centre" - numerous pavilions and
Canopies with little shops, souvenir benches, small restaurants and cafe.
Continually - stands with colourful kinds Oberzaltsberga,
Which is dashing "leave" on 1 DM. The raised demand use
Colour photos of times of the Fuhrer: houses of fascist courtiers,
"An eagle nest", panoramic plots.
Amazingly, already then in Germany existed high level
Colour photo. Now from the escaped films stamp hundreds
Thousand cards. In albums - present fjurerskie iconostasises on
To the price from 16 to 22 DM. Interested persons can fill up a house videoshop
Cartridges: "Hitler", "Hitler and Eve Brown","Hitler and it
Environment "," Oberzaltsberg in the Third Reich "...
At a huge breadboard model with which help it is possible to "walk" on
Nazi Oberzaltsbergu, the people crowd. In polyphony
German language prevails, Italian sometimes makes the way,
English. Ubiquitous Japanese, as always, obveshany a photo-and
Videocameras. Burghers are presented basically by the senior generation.
Here the ailing old man with a stick in a shivering hand, probably veteran
Vermahta or SS, enthusiastically surveys vicinities, and then something
Murmurs to the same companion. That them has resulted here in this hot
Day: curative air, fragrant Alpine meadows, walk in
Picturesque wood, bewitching panoramas of mountain distances and lakes? By no means!
The majority of German tourists make pilgrimage to "to the sacred
To place "the Third Reich, where the phantom of the Fuhrer shrouded in the undisguised
Nostalgia, still wanders among the Alpine tops. However, ten
Years back in cities of Georgia I saw and pohleshche: portraits "the leader
The people "decorated shops, hairdressing salons and buses. And in Burn
Accepted crowds of visitors the memorial surrounded with a cult
The house-museum of the executioner of the Soviet people.
Today's Oberzaltsberg - covered with wood "polonina" with
Several constructions. We are attached to a chain of the people going to
"To tourist object" Б 1, it is final - "Berghofu". On a slope
Terraces among trees and a grass - a heap of rubble, concrete, wood and
The bent armature. That's all, that remains from "historical"
Country houses. Metres in thirty - the filled up underground input, hardly above at
Hill - powerful, protivoopolznevye strengthenings.
In post-war years to a dilapidated box "Berghofa" has begun
Pilgrimage. It have taken down - pilgrimage proceeded already to
To the base. Two years ago it have cleaned bulldozers. But pilgrims
All the same tusujutsja on a place of nazi "curiosity".
Is less popular in visitors "Geringhauz", located on
otshibe at edge of the Alpine meadow. A dense grass with colours, hum
Bees and treskotnja grasshoppers have to idyll. And the footpath conducts
Us to a gloomy concrete block: to the base rests, on which else
54 years ago the country house of the second person of fascist empire rose.
There after game in a golf barbarous operations were developed
"Ljuftvaffe".
In updated hotel "General Valker" (Platterhof) up to
Year before last there lived families of the American military men. The Yankee
Have attached to a building club and a sports hall, have broken a football ground.
Now the hotel is empty, the memorial plate reminds of its history at an input.
It is revived from ruins and known hotel "At a Turk", standing on
To the neighbourhood with "Berghofom". Having given 10 DM for tickets, on the screw
To ladder we go down in a vault. In August, 1943, when destiny
Germany it has been already predetermined, here the accelerated rates have begun
To build system of underground tunnels, shtolen and bunkers - present
City in bowels of mountains in the extent in 20 kilometres, entered in
History of the second world as "the Alpine fortress". Czechs built and
Italians - all of them then liquidated. "City" with all
Necessary zhizneobespechivajushchimi by services has been calculated on
Long independent existence. Hitler, Goering's bunkers
And Borman looked like smart apartments. Borman bragged, that
His family is ready to live here two hundred years.
For the review openly only two kilometres. An oval tunnel
It is revetted by a granite, a thickness of ferro-concrete overlapping - 50 sm,
Electroconducting is hidden under a covering, drips from above, squelches under
Feet. Blows as a sepulchral cold, it is horrible, apparently, that just about
Will arise essesovets in a helmet with the automatic machine napereves and will bellow:
"russish halt!" Underground corridors wind, branch,
Falling on 70 metres. Sometimes rest against a wall with
Cracks-embrasures through which all is looked through ahead,
Obviously, on a mutiny case. The immured doors, set of the various
Rooms and even - a punishment cell. With simplification this underground is left
"Necropolis".
Deification of a trip - visiting of "the Eagle nest" - Hitler's houses on
Grief Kelshtajn. To please to owner Borman on next, unapproachable
Something has decided to erect a grief amazing in the spirit of "thousand-year"
Reich. In job have involved the best engineering and building forces.
Lining only one road with accompanying constructions
Has managed in 30 million rejhsmarok - the sum astronomical.
The engineering decision of construction impresses and now.
For 20 DM we buy tickets and half an hour we toil in long turn. And here
Caravan from four comfortable Mercedes, having passed the opened
Gate, there begins storm of mountain, which as the snake, twists the narrow
Seven-kilometre road. Set of small tunnels, arches, and
Any protivoavarijnyh protections, instead of them on columns -
Nice wooden handrail. Where look - gloomy rocks and
Horrible precipices.
Accurately under the schedule - in 25 minutes - we are unloaded on the spacious
To platform. Again we buy tickets, and the crowd grandly disappears in
The tunnel conducting to the centre of mountain where visitors are expected already by the lift
On 46 showers, the draped gold foil with mirrors. "Gold"
The lift. Full surroundings of that time. For 50 seconds - on one breath
-- This shining device on 124-metre mine delivers us
Directly in "the Eagle nest". Height - 1836 metres. English aircraft
And it was not possible to destroy a den of the Fuhrer - it was saved in
Primordial form, as well as road to it.
The sound, concrete, gloomy house. A capacious drawing room with
Fireplace, some rooms and office accommodations, balconies. The TV
Tirelessly shows documentary shots about building
"Nests" and its visitors. On the screen flash Hitler, Eve Brown,
Loyal and living here pogodja Americans. On the viewing
To platform the cosy small restaurant has taken places. Enthusiasts on the covered
Rubble to a path rise on 200 metres above - to wooden
To the cross established at the beginning of the century by climbers.
Through easy to a smoke the marvellous panorama of mighty tops opens,
Mysterious gorges, soft valleys, dark blue lakes. Under us, as if
Small insects - settlements, hardly further Berhtesgaden, and between mountain tops
Salzburg is looked through even. Also it would be desirable to forget about the gloomy past.
//* an information Source: "Today", the newspaper, 31.07.99
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