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your Hitler index today’s ” AR-online” again Alphabetical index (text) THE world’s first museum dedicated to the history of the Third Reich opened in Bavaria last week on the site of Hitler’s former southern headquarters and Alpine holiday home – despite protests from local people that it could become a shrine for neo-Nazis.
Outrage at Third Reich museum Obersalzberg, in the mountainous Berchtesgaden region of southern Germany, was described by Hitler as his “chosen home” and he completed the second part of Mein Kampf while he lived there from 1924 to 1926. It has become the annual pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis celebrating Hitler’s birthday
on April 20. The innocuously-named Obersalzberg Documentation Centre opened its doors after four years of heated debate. More than 1,000 visitors turned up on the first two days to tour the controversial museum on the site of the former Nazi guesthouse “Hoher Göll”, where Hitler personally entertained prominent guests. The crowning glory of the Obersalzberg complex of 80 buildings was the 6,000ft high “Eagle’s Nest”.
It also featured the Berghof, Hitler’s personal villa that was bombed by Allied aircraft and then completely destroyed after the war. The exhibition, which cost more than £1 million to set up, shows the rise and fall of the Third Reich – starting with the role of Obersalzberg in the Nazi propaganda machine. Photographs of Hitler were taken here, depicting him as a lover of nature, children and animals.
The exhibition covers how military leaders commanded their forces from the mountain retreat, the resistance, foreign policy, the Holocaust and Hitler’s hold over the German population. The centre also incorporates part of the network of bunkers which ran underneath Hitler’s lair, in addition to multimedia exhibitions using original source material. Many of the exhibits, such as photographs of the execution of 700 Jewish women, are on show for the first time.
After the war, the region was taken over by the Americans and used as a recreation centre for its servicemen with hotels, golf courses and, in winter, skiing. But they handed it
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