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4 unusual facts about Berghof


Edmund Glaise-Horstenau

At the meeting at the Berghof in Berchtesgaden on February 12, 1938 between Hitler and Schuschnigg, Germany demanded among other things that Glaise-Horstenau be made Minister of War in a new, pro-Nazi government, and that he would thereafter establish close operational relations between the German and Austrian Armies, leading ultimately to the assimilation of the Austrian into the German system.

Emilio Esteban Infantes

Consequently Esteban Infantes was dispatched to Germany where he was inducted into the Wehrmacht with the rank of Generalmajor and with the military oath being administered directly to Hitler at the Berghof.

Führermuseum

In 2010, an album that an American soldier looted from Hitler's home, Berghof, during the war that catalogued artwork Hitler desired for the museum is to be returned to Germany.

Jean Compagnon

In January 1945, Compagnon was wounded, but recuperated by the time the division reached the Berghof above Berchestgadsen on 4 May, along with the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division.


Automated Lip Reading

The technology was used successfully to analyse silent home movie footage of Adolf Hitler taken by Eva Braun at their Bavarian retreat Berghof.

Silvia Spross

Spross had attended the Herbert Berghof Theater School in New York City, after attended the School of Visual Arts in 2000 studying storyboarding, then from 2007–2008, she attended the Santa Monica College studying photography.


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