European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Neighbors his the eagles a few the Rise and fall of hitlers playground by Chuck Vinch Munich Bureau the Obe Salzberg Region near Berchtesgaden looks innocent enough today a a parking some arc and a multitude of its almost impossible to believe that 40 years ago this was the second Headquarters of the nazi regime of Adolf almost impossible but not look hard enough and youll see the remains of the foundations of the House that belonged to Hermann commander of the part of the shooting Range for the is troops that guarded Obe Salzberg still the underground bunkers that snaked throughout the hillsides Are still accessible through what is now arcs general Walker and around the Hill is the underground garage of hitlers own All that is left of the fuehrer Many visitors to the area walk through history without even knowing for a Small room in the general Walker hotel known As the bavarian As Well As the two Small rooms adjacent to were once separate from the main then known As the in those Small rooms Hitler wrote part of mein Kumpfm the years before his Rise to when Hitler became Leader of Germany in he had a House called Haus Wachenfeld in the Obe Salzberg refurbished and renamed the the area began to take on an entirely new look As Hitler instructed Martin Bormann to completely rebuild it to serve As a second nazi it was fenced off and guarded by is troops Day and Goring and Albert in addition to All had Homes arcs Skytop Lodge was the the Model farm of the new nazi Empire set up by evidently Bormann neglected to have someone take soil because the area was totally unsuitable for farming and the project was a dismal what is now arcs Evergreen Lodge was the work studio of Albert architect of Germany autobahn system and later hitlers minister of and his Home was just up the the House is now privately the now the general was originally meant to be a hotel for Ordinary germans to come and be close to the but after Bormann got done with it was used Only for top ranking party officials and other the hotel still has some of the original furniture from the nazi including some chairs near the bavarian continued on Page 8 stripes Magazine August