US Army Took Over General Walker Hotel in 1945

... Im Jahr 2000 wurde das ehemalige US-Soldatenhotel "General Walker" auf dem Obersalzberg, das in der NS-Zeit unter dem Namen Hotel "Platterhof" als Hitlers Gästehaus bekannt wurde, ...abgerissen.

April 1945 bombardierten britische ... · Im Jahr 2000 wurde das ehemalige US-Soldatenhotel "General Walker" auf dem Obersalzberg, das in der NS-Zeit unter dem Namen Hotel "Platterhof" als Hitlers Gästehaus bekannt wurde, abgerissen...

Im Jahr 2000 wurde das ehemalige US-Soldatenhotel "General Walker" auf dem Obersalzberg, das in der NS-Zeit unter dem Namen Hotel "Platterhof" als Hitlers Gästehaus bekannt wurde, abgerissen.

Following the Obersalzberg air raid by a RAF Lancaster command on 25 April 1945, the heavily damaged Platterhof stood vacant and crumbling for a number of years. The US Army rebuilt the hotel in 1952 and together with the neighbouring former studio of Minister Albert Speer (Evergreen Lodge) ...

On 4 May, four days after Hitler's ... arrived at Berchtesgaden along with the French 2nd Armoured Division. The Obersalzberg area was placed under the U.S....

After the Nazi seizure of power, it became part of the extended containment area around Hitler's headquarters at the nearby Berghof residence, serving as a guest house and meeting facility of the SS guards. Following World War II, the damaged building was restored as a United States Armed Forces Recreation Center (AFRC), and again renamed after US Army General Walton Walker (1889–1950), killed in action in the Korean War.

Following World War II, the damaged building was restored as a United States Armed Forces Recreation Center (AFRC), and again renamed after US Army General Walton Walker (1889–1950), killed in action in the Korean War.[3] The complex was demolished in 2001. ... On 10 September 1877, the landlady Mauritia Mayer (1833–1897) purchased the former Steinhaus farmstead in Obersalzberg above Berchtesgaden.

After American troops seized Obersalzberg in late May 1945 amid the final Allied push into the area, the structure was adapted for military use, initially serving as a hospital before its redesignation as part of the U.S. Armed Forces Recreation ...

The Intercontinental Hotel was built upon the location of Hermann Gorings home on the Obersalzberg. The former barracks area of the SS has been cleared of all traces to include basement levels.

Following World War II, the damaged ... renamed after US Army General Walton Walker (1889–1950), killed in action in the Korean War. The complex was demolished in 2001. 1973 Bavaria Photos The General Walker Hotel aka The Platterhof Hotel ...

The complex was demolished in 2000. ... On 10 September 1877, the landlady Mauritia Mayer (1833–1897) purchased the former Steinhaus farmstead in Obersalzberg above Berchtesgaden.

This hotel was damaged by an RAF bombing raid on the compound in April 1945. After the war, the U.S. Army took it over, repaired it—naming it the General Walker—and used it for a recreation center for military personnel and their families.