Germany & Austria 1945
Berghof site and the Obersalzberg walk
GuideGermany & Austria 1945
AreaBerchtesgaden & the Eagle's Nest
Time to allow45 min
LocationExact spot known
GPS47.63360, 13.04190
The story
The foundations of Hitler's house, Göring's and Bormann's plots, the SS barracks site — mostly demolished in 1952, the rest cleared later, and forested. Signed paths from the Dokumentation centre.
What to look for
The retaining wall of the Berghof terrace is still there in the trees.
Nearby sites
- Dokumentation Obersalzberg · under 1 km
- Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden — salt mine · 2 km
- Kehlsteinhaus — the Eagle's Nest · 2 km
- Berchtesgaden — town and the Berchtesgadener Hof site · 4 km
- Königssee · 6 km
- Bad Reichenhall · 16 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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