Germany & Austria 1945
Bad Reichenhall
GuideGermany & Austria 1945
AreaBerchtesgaden & the Eagle's Nest
Time to allow30 min
LocationRight area — the exact spot is uncertain
GPS47.72450, 12.87700
The story
The spa town at the valley mouth where the 506th's column waited at a blown bridge on 4 May while the 3rd Infantry Division and the French got into Berchtesgaden first.
What to look for
The main road east toward the valley is the axis.
Nearby sites
- Berchtesgaden — town and the Berchtesgadener Hof site · 14 km
- Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden — salt mine · 14 km
- Salzburg · 15 km
- Berghof site and the Obersalzberg walk · 16 km
- Dokumentation Obersalzberg · 16 km
- Königssee · 17 km
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Easy Company: Germany & Austria
A free field guide for your phone: the route, the maps and the stories built in, even with no signal. The places of the last months of the war in Europe: the Rhine, Bavaria with Landsberg, Dachau and Munich, Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's Nest, and Austria, where Easy Company ended its war at Zell am See and Kaprun.
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