Was Platterhof a Luxury Hotel and Adolf Hitlers Mountain Headquarters

The Berghof, and other Nazi houses, have disappeared, blown up in the 50s. The Bavarian government also recently flattened the Platterhof, originally built for high-ranking Nazis but occupied by US soldiers after the war.

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Most controversially, in 2000, the Bavarian authorities tore down the Platterhof, the old hotel that was turned into a "people's hotel" during the Nazi years, and became an American recreation center after the war, when Obersalzberg housed a ...

The only flaw here is that the InterContinental Berchtesgaden, an upscale resort and spa due to open in the spring, sits on the plot of ground where the Nazi Reich Marshall Hermann Göring had his rural retreat, just over a rise from the Berghof, the luxurious house with the big picture window where Adolf Hitler contemplated the mists drifting over the face of the Untersberg Mountain and plotted his evil deeds.

April 1945 bombardierten britische Verbände den Obersalzberg, von den Nazi-Quartieren blieben fast nur Ruinen übrig. Aus dem „Platterhof“, zur NS-Zeit eine Herberge für Nazigrößen, wurde 1953 ein Hotel für US-Streitkräfte.

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Die kümmerlichen Überreste von Hitlers Wohnhaus wurden nun eingeebnet, der alte "Platterhof", den die Amerikaner als Hotel genutzt hatten, gegen den Protest von Denkmalschützern abgerissen.

After the Nazi seizure of power, it became a "people's" hostel for visitors to the extended containment area around Hitler's headquarters at the nearby Berghof residence. It was subsequently rebuilt into a luxury hotel for visiting dignitaries and in 1943 was converted into a military hospital.

In total, over 50 Obersalzberg Nazi buildings were destroyed. The Platterhof, which had been a hostel for visitors to the area, was not destroyed since it had been turned into the General Walker Hotel for U.S.

In the late 19th century German ... leased to the former racing driver Bruno Büchner in the early 1920s. When he acquired the property in 1928, he renamed it Platterhof inspired by Richard Voss' novel Zwei Menschen....