So far, I have visited all the sites presented by Dr. Felton, From the Eagle's Nest to Obersalzberg, to Nuremberg. I didn't know about this house, since I live in Germany, I will visit it at the first opportunity
Nobody would ever consider demolishing the Roman Colosseum even though it was built to house spectators watching people being slaughtered, if there are people demanding demolishing of this historical artifact then destroy all military history, in the end there will simply be not many museums left to view and educate going forward.
So we should preserve every building in which every historically significant person has visited? They are not demolishing it because it was built by a famous nazi, they are trying to sell it. The collosseum, like many castles is preserved because its historically/culturally significant and makes a bit of cash. Which part of nazi leader Geobbals, who ordered the murder of his own six children in a bunker, do you identify with and would benefit from the most?
You can still visit Admiral Donitz's house in Lorient, South Brittany. It has a fine view of the estuary, and they will serve you a cold beer. There's a big underground bunker in the garden, but they got very angry and defensive when I asked if I could have a look, who knows what secrets are hidden down there! Lorient still has the U-boat pens, and now they are used for yacht maintenance..I tied up my yacht inside a pen for the night, a truly spooky experience!
I understand the impulse of 20th century Germans to eradicate every trace of nazism, but the de-nazification period is as much a part of the historic past now as the nazis themselves. Seems to me we ought to preserve what few physical artifacts are left from the period as historically important. Of course, that's easy for a non-german like me to say.
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There's enough nazi sympathizers in this commentary section to show a place like that would become a place for nazi worship, which kind of proves the point it should be blown to smithereens....
DIe meisten Leute wollen einfach wirklich nichts mehr mit diesem Mist zutun haben. Ganz zu schweigen von den Neo Nazis, die von solchen Orten angezogen werden.
As disgusting the Nazis are, I also find it disgusting trying to erase history, it is just a form of book burning. I hope they restore it into a museum.
@@anthonymorales8510 well the idea behind making it illegal and destroying all the history is if they allow it to exist it will repeat because ultimately people will come to the conclusion that its all correct
My only problem with these videos is they are too short .They are so damn good and I want more! I'm really not sure how you pack so much information into such a short amount of time. Clearly a gift. I think most structures from an important part of history should be kept. The house doesn't serve as a glorification of the era it serves as a symbol of their incredible greed. A museum would be perfect.
Yep - I don't agree with the 'destroy anything Nazi' ethos at all. What happened, happened: some pretty heinous things happened in medieval castles too. Treat it as a relic of a bygone age and contextualize it's history with lots and lots of information, so there's no suggestion of glorifying it. Put it this way: if it hadn't been Goebbels', everyone would be falling over themselves to preserve it as an example of 1930s architecture. Well, it's still the same building...
@@MrHws5mp exactly if your going to demolish the things the NAZIs built than you better go and demolish the Colosseum becuase the romans did much crueler things than the NAZIs
Another perfectly timed video with my morning coffee here in New Zealand 🇳🇿. It amazes me how you continue to find fascinating topics to cover with regular uploads. Thank you Mark🙂
A friend's aunt worked at the Berghof as a maiden. After the 1944 air raid she came out of the bunker and found a red dress belonging to Eva Braun (she had witnessed her wearing it one night). She took it home and preserved it for decades before it was thrown away after her death. Can you imagine how much a rich American collector might have paid?
Goebbels most likely didn't have his estate blown up like Goering did his because he just didn't care anymore. If he'd ordered it destroyed it would have been.
@Real Aiglon Oh, my point was that with so many of the other houses having been bombed in Obersalzburg or blown up this one structure managed to avoid those fates.
Very interesting documentary but to say that “Hitler never married” would be confusing to some people because of course he did marry Eva Braun on April 29th 1945.
Thank you for another great video! Given the provenance of this home, its location on 42 acres and perhaps extensive underground bunkers, I think this place is well worth what they were asking. As you said, it is a historic building and I feel as should be preserved. Perhaps turn it into a lodge or a museum? I just hate to see it fall to the wrecking ball because of who it belonged to. He’s long dead and gone and it would be nice to preserve the alpine architecture. It would be nice to see it kept up have the wiring and plumbing updated. Make sure the roof is sound, freshen up the exterior, check the windows & HVAC brought up-to-date. Of course it’s understood the grounds surrounding the Home would be kept up as well.
Mr. Felton could then turn it into the best museum in the World on the ugliness, craziness, and evil of the Third Reich, which managed to appear wonderful, sensible, and justified to many people in Germany in its early stages.
The level of detail Mark Felton has brought to this portion of history is so much closer to being there than we have been able to feel. It’s almost like an intimacy.
If only we could have a time machine. There are MANY Americans and British who wish we could change sides. Back then, many ethnic German Americans opposed the war. And Anglo-Americans and the English used to know we are all Teutonic cousins. That’s been wiped from memory ever since the Good Men of Germany lost their righteous war.
Tearing any of these structure's down is plain dumb. Rebuilding and restoring them would be costly at the same time. Just remember one thing. The same man that sleeps in the house is usually not the man who built it. Germans were and still are master craftsmen.
I was there yesterday with a group from the UK!! Utterly amazing place and unchanged since this video was made last year. The rumour was that has now been sold and will be developed… Another excellent Video Dr Felton!
I hope that restore the building I think we all know what it stands for but I also think it should be preserved for historical reasons . And if you distory it then I feel we tend to forget about the history of the Nazi's ..this way we never forget what happened in those dark days
There is alot of stuff in germany to remind you of the horrors of the past. These buildings usually attract some neonazis which makes destruction more disirable.
@@bliblablubdiedadup742 If the buildings weren't there the silly neo-nazis would just go somewhere else. Or meet at the ruins. Or something. You can't destroy everywhere the Nazis hung out, it's an impossibility.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 No clue why you try to turn this into some kind of cancel culture whatever. A peronal home of a top nazi in the middle of nowhere provides no historic value - why bother spending millions of tax money on it?
@@bliblablubdiedadup742 Well, let's look at it this way. If you think the place should be destroyed (And frankly I don't care one way or another, I'll never go to see it) do a study of how much it will cost to demolish the building (which will take money as well) and remove all traces of the same, plus landscaping the property so it'll look nice, then raise the money yourself and contact the German government. I'm sure they'll be happy to talk to you. Or raise the 20 million asking price and buy it yourself, then you can do what you want with it. You're right, why spend millions of tax money on it one way or another?
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This is interesting. Would be worth a vacation over to Germany just for this alone. Been planning a holiday to tour various European historical locations for some years. I grew up in a party town on a large beach. So would never in my life waste the thousands upon thousands just to lay on a beach within the property of some hotel resort. Would love to visit Europe to see the plethora of historical sites that we just simply do not have in North America. Same with Japan and Korea, but to a lesser extent. I do have a few sites there pinned down though. Would be well worth it. if I were to win that $70,000,000 jackpot I would buy up this villa in a snap just to preserve it and maybe make the entire thing a museum.
If you do ever win the big one then you might consider making it into a Holocaust museum. I think it would be a *DELICIOUS* bit of revenge if someone were to. Turn the place into a museum dedicated to the Holocaust.
Buy it before any greedy property developers get it or some rich boomers make it into an airbnb. A lot of historic and sometimes amazing properties have in some way or another been lost only to turn into condos and strip malls.
In the early 1990’s, before the German government finished blowing up the Berghof for good, I was staying at the US Army Hotel General Walker (now torn down after being given back to the Germans). Just a short walk into the woods from there I was able find the Berghof, and at that time the remanent of the stone garage was still there. I have a photo standing along side it. I also took a brick from the ruins which I still have today. On another trip, I was able to scout out the foundations of the Goering and Bormann homes on the Obersalzburg. If I’m not mistaken, Speer’s art studio is still intact and undamaged; I saw it just down the road from the Berghof.
Did you really take a brick from Europe to America? I know that in the US people still build wooden houses, but... Moving a brick from a continent across an ocean to another continent? Tell your brick that being a brick in one of the houses of one of so many European tyrants is not that important. You know, bricks sometimes get too arrogant. 😉
Why go so far away to get a brick from a house representing the worst of authoritarianism, when you could have scraped off a bit of stucco off the walls of Mar-a-Lago right here in the US?
When you mentioned for sale, I was instantly "Hmm I really wonder how much" and tbh it would be nice to see it purchased and minor restoration ( re-paint / new plumbing / electrical ) but to keep it the majority as currently is. As you mentioned, an intact non destroyed building is very rare. Sadly, its fate will likely be that of most others and completely demolished. Until the 20 million was mentioned, I was slightly interested. 🤣
Why do you think its a good idea to represent nazi wealth and opulence? A basic restoration would have cost €200-400k, hopefully the combined cost is beyond the scope of your average nazi biker gang.
Great video. Interesting that a photo of Lida Baarova , a Czechoslovakian actress, was shown, and with whom his affair in 1938 completely backfired on him when Hitler put him in the cold for having that affair. This lead to Goebbels being the main agitator for the Reichskristalnacht in November of that year, so he could sit at his master's feet again.
Hitler also had to play marriage counselor over Goebbel's affair, basically telling him to cool it because a divorce involving a high-profile government minister would raise a hell of a stink.
She was a beautiful woman, by the looks of the photograph. I can't imagine what she thought being his mistress. Not exactly a handsome man but I suppose his control of the film industry must, in her mind, have compensated for that. Perhaps there is hope for me yet. Lol
$20 million dollars? They will hold firm on the price until the building decays from non use. Then demolish the decayed building and sell the land for 1 million or a $19 million dollar loss. The same fate as the General Walker Hotel (Platterhof).
Your content always includes something entirely new to the audience, rather than retelling history that has been retold again and again. You would have a good channel as a first rate raconteur, but the original research you bring makes this one of the best sources of history to be found.
watch the documentary Europa the last battle if you want to know untold history. i warn you, it might change your view on things. its one of the best documentarys ive seen. especially part 3. its scary how much information that has been supressed.... very sad.
There is a Goebels Villa still in existence in Berlin in the Zehlendorf area (originally a rich residential area). It is now a private clinic. When I was in West Berlin many years ago, I visited someone there having an operation. I took a walk around the grounds with them and told them that I saw a stone over a side entrance door with "1939" engraved in it; yes - was the answer, the villa was originally the property of Goebels. It had a rather large entry way with the original staircase winding up the walls still intact.
@@Retroscoop That was 'way back when' in West Berlin; middle of the 1980's. Sorry, I remember neither the street name nor the name of the private clinic for vascular operations, but it was not far away from the US Berlin Brigade Headquarters. I do remember that it was off Clay Allee somewhere.
Looking at that house gave me the creeps! BUT, it should be fully restored and kept as a museum so other can see and feel what it is like to inside a house of evil, so if it helps give tourists the willies, it should help them not only to understand, but also to never forget history (and to tell others about it too, i.e. word of mouth). It bothers me to see that people want to destroy historical sites because to destroy them means to destroy history. How can anyone remember history if no one is there to see it and hear about it? I'm a biggie about preserving history when it comes to both good and evil and the lessons that comes with it. I hope the house will be preserved so that future generations can not only learn but also benefit from it. Just my two cents (abet today's inflation lol). Edit: I question the motives of those that wants to destroy history because, as I see it, is someone that wants to repeat the same history but must first destroy it so people will forget and not be able to prevent it from happening again.
“House of evil”? It is just a building and has no persona, although it certainly housed an evil man. And for others saying it should be demolished…. Should the Roman Coliseum be demolished too as it was used for some pretty evil things? I don’t think it is the type of structure that will be an inspiration to other Nazis so no need to destroy it.
it's not so much about destroying history as avoiding anyone using them as shrines to worship the nazis. It's the same reason Hitler's bunker in Berlin became a parking lot when they could have easily made it a museum. Yes, it's not the building's fault their constructors were terrible people, but they don't have any significant history connected to them either. There isn't a whole lot to learn from Goebell's house or any of the others that were torn down beyond "built by a mad man". There's still plenty left all over the place to remind us of the things they did and crimes they committed.
I feel the same i feel it should be restored and all traces of nazis removed and put to use for the greater good like perhaps an orphanage and school or a home for women caught up in domestic violence good must always expunge evil.
Some years ago I also visited the villa and I was able to enter it, and ended up in the cinema hall and the projection room ! Everything was still in its original condition ...
The whole place should be maintained due to its historical significance. I was thinking a museum would best serve the site and the profits should go into maintaining site and possibly even donating a portion to worthy charity, to help off set some of the terrible deeds and tyranny of the Nazi regime!
There's probably a thousand such museums like that in Germany already and at much more important places. It would just be another museum that requires public funding as the probably 3 tourists it would attract per week would be able to pay for the upkeep. What should be in the building? It's 70 empty rooms.
I went looking for it on Google Satellite, just out of curiosity. There's actually two Bogensees in the general area; the one in question is actually in Wandlitz outside of Berlin. The other is technically within the city limits, from the looks of it, and it's about a 30 min drive from there to get to the correct one. The house is a little north of west from the lake and seems to be on or near the grounds of a school now. If you want to see it, just go to a satellite view and it's about maybe 200 or 300 meters from the lake shore with the wings of the house pointing towards the northwest.
The school and most of the surrounding complex was built in the 50's by the DDR Communist regime. The idea was to show that the Communist regime could build much more grandiose than the Nazis. The school is no longer used and the entire complex is abandoned - shame as it is in a fantastic natural area and the entire thing can be turned into a nice hotel or recreational center.
@@todortodorov940The main school building looks more like a gargantuan nazi villa than the actual villa itself. The design of the school buildings is of an elegance rarely found in 50's communist territory. Although this is highly subjective. The soft white walls and yellow window frames turn warm and friendly at dusk. Almost like some villas in Tuscany.
I remember reading somewhere that Albert Speer drew up blueprints for a modest home at the request of a friendly guard during the Spandau years. Always wondered if it was ever built.
@@Jess-nc4oy I know, I always hate when buildings are demolished just because they happened to host some evil person or murderer. Buildings don't choose who lives in them and decide what happens within its walls. Waste of a structure to demolish them.
Bogensee Villa has a crummy outline for heating, but in summer it could be good for seasonal festivals or summer school. If torn apart, it has a substantial amount of hardwood for reuse.
A very unusual and historical building. It could have many useful purposes, as from the pictures, it appears to have been well built. It needs Historical Preservation Certification and hopefully it will be saved, restored and maintained.
Goebbels on urban Weimar life : “This city is grey and miserable. The houses are covered with soot, the people grave and taciturn. Black masses move along the streets; meager and pale faces, the necks bent down. Children are sitting at the street corners, begging. In front of the shops women are standing with old, grey, faces. Night falls. The discharge tubes ignite. Light shines down on misery and filth. My heart wrenches. Whores and pimps are dragging themselves through the small and narrow lanes. Yonder red lights are glowing. The evening seems to spread black wings over the city. Richness and misery are living close to each other. It makes you feel like crying. That was my longing: for the mountains' divine solitude and peacefulness, for pure, white snow. I got tired of the big city, I am at home again in the mountains. There I sit for many hours amid their white virginity and find myself again.”
Wait...he spent that much money on the building and it has that many rooms and it still looks like just a school from the outside? I know Goering was weird with his attitudes towards things like architecture, but this is just bizarre for someone like goebbels to have commissioned and signed off on!
The windows in this house are so modern. Göbbels could push the button and they sink into the ground. So he and his friends could step into the garden and dance there in the moonlight. So romantic.
Dr Felton - quick suggestion. You should leave the longitude/latitude coordinates for locations you cite in your videos in the description. Especially since you're searching many of these up for photos on maps - the data would be easy to get and it'd make it super easy for folks visiting the area to check out these places. For example, I located the villa on Google Maps but am unable to pinpoint the bunker entrance location!
(Irrelevant, but in the group of people seen at 3.10 is the tall figure of Dr. Karl Brandt, who became Hitler's doctor in the mid-'30s and who was involved in setting up and administering the euthanasia programme saw him hanged in 1948 as a war-criminal. At the very end of the war, Brandt had been accused by Hitler of defeatism and was sentenced to death. He escaped death only to be accused of war crimes and convicted by the Allies.
The entrance section on that house with its pillars from roughly squared, natural stone are archtypical for NS-era architecture. There are two remaining, though "unpolitical", smaller buildings that are passed, unnoticed, by tens of thousands of people each day: To my knowledge they are the only remaining Autobahn petrol stations from the orginal construction time on either side of the A 2 at Rhynern ( which is a part of the city of Hamm). The one on the northern side of the A2 is a chapel now. They once belonged to resthouse complexes that have long been reshaped and widened wth the growing demand of traffic. So both of them look a little "lost" or out of place.
Roosevelt, Churchill, De Gaule, and especially Stalin were Saints. Truman and Johnson were people sent by God. Clinton, Obama, Bush, Blair, Biden are also Saints. It's only the Nazis always. As if Britain didn't conquer the whole world and started slave trading and exploiting people all around the Globe. Or creating the first ever concentration camps. As if the US is not destabilizing third world countries, bombing them, killing civilians for Oil and drug trafficking. Those nazis man...really bad people.
Above all, we must not keep vestiges that belonged to notorious Nazis for the simple and good reason that they could become places of pilgrimage and commemorations for neo-Nazis and others nostalgic for the Third Reich.
I’ve been waiting for this one, it’s strange that the Allies didn’t bomb this one into rubble. It’s strange to see it completely intact, but also unchanged. I wonder if it will ever be restored into some kind of museum? That would be interesting. I hope you do the Nazi era church in southern Germany soon.
This needs to be kept. Good or bad, and which one is obvious in this instance, history must be preserved. We're seeing now the results of destroying history as we are sadly repeating it all over the world.
04:51_I recall some of the large glass panel walls like you see, actually retract below floor level, via an automated chain system..where by the top of the frame ends up flush with the floor..no doubt an expensive state of the art feature of the 1930s.
I didn't know much about Nazi history and WWII in general outside of textbook lessons, now I'm obsessed with learning more about the topic. So excited to see what the next video will be about!
They should have preserved Goering's manor... That looks like the sort of thing we look round in the UK via the National Trust. Not the Nazional Trust mind
I would love to visit it, walk around it, walk through it. I think it would be a poignant, reflective experience. It would also be educational and informative. It is certainly very historic. I don't believe these places should have been torn down and demolished. I think demolishing them was an attempt by Germany to demolish history which of course is impossible. They should stand as monuments to history and education.
It's said the City of Berlin is offering this property to anyone "As A Gift" and has-been trying to get someone to take up the property, before its demolished. I just read this in a Berlin news paper.
Mark, can the estate be accessed, or did you need special permission to visit? We'd like to check it out when we visit Berlin. As always, thanks for sharing; your videos have provided a professional guide for quite a few sites while we've toured Europe the past three years. 👍
I remember Heinz Linge had talked in his Book "With Hitler to the End" about Hitler's suburban villages. There he mentions the beauty of Obersalzberg and the suburban villages nearby his villa. Many villagers were still living close to Hitler's house even after his rising to power. There is one case in which Hitler mentions a specific house that ruins the calmness and the flawless sight from his balcony. The very next day after his return from Münich, Bormann buys the property of the villager (without Hitler's knowledge) and makes it a green meadow. Hitler reproaches Bormann's actions, that he had abused his power to buy that property.
There was another instance when in Hitler's absence Bormann had the treeline around the Berghof cut back several hundred yards as a security measure. Hitler was furious about that too but still kept Bormann in his post.
@@StalinTheMan0fSteel He did the same to the owners of the Hotel zum Turken, which was close by the Berghof. Bormann had the hotel turned into a barracks for the SS garrison. What Hitler had to say about that strong-arm purchase I have no idea. Post-war, the family that owned the hotel got it back. It's still there today if I remember right and still a functioning hotel.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 Don't think he really cared considering the forced repatriations of Germans from non-German nations ordered by Hitler. Basically he did the same thing, my great-grandfather was also affected by this all property he had was taken away and he was later sent to the Eastern-front with the Hungarian 2nd army after an agreement with Horthy. (Hungary had claims on land stripped away by the Trianon-Treaty, these lands still to this day have a large Hungarian population despite the replacement efforts) It's a less-known part of history, but you can occasionally hear about it even in more mainstream history sources (compared to Mark-s videos)in relation to Polish Germans who were resettled in greater numbers. I'm still not sure if all it was for was a quick cashgrab to fuel the War-economy or if he really wanted to bolster Germany's population with this with a 'end justifies the means' approach but Hitler was well known for his hatred for Austria-Hungary because of things that happened in his early-life. (Oversimplified has a video on this with the famous 'This enraged his father who punished him severely' meme)
Oh nooo, you forgot the Window that could fully retract into the ground. Quiet modern i was told. Also there are more buildings for his familiy or something nearby. they were badly damaged but still standing when i was there some years ago.
When you hear that intro music you know your in for a historical treat. Another great historical gem full of information that is new to me. I'd tell anyone to subscribe to this channel before you leave the video.
I was in Berchtedgsden in 2019, the Berghof of Hitler is there on top of the mountain Kalkstein.... Now a tourist attraction can go inside see the rooms and view of the mountains and return to Berchtesgaden by bus.
It's only a house: it doesn't mean anything. You might as well demolish other 1930s relics such as the autobahns and the 1936 Olympic Stadium, if you want to take de-n@zification that far. I've always liked that simple and solid looking German vernacular style. On my first tour in West Germany as part of the BAOR, we lived in a 1930s barracks built for the Luftwaffe. It was better built and more spacious than any barracks I lived in in the UK. At least they had better taste than many other senior political figures in post-war dictatorships, or even some democracies. 🙄
There is another untouched Villa of Martin Bormann in Pullach near Munich . This building is in mint condition with its original horse statue in the garden Hitler gave Borman as a birthday present - The building is nor open to the public and belongs to the state.
I really hope that this place is neither demolished, or allowed to decay beyond repair. Given it's huge historic (although dark) value, it must be preserved at all costs. If places were demolished just because of their distasteful past, we would have no history left. Great video Mark.
I never can figure out if I want longer videos or more videos or both. its both! thanks for all of them. and they should keep the building. history needs some record of how the nazis lived, while others were being gassed.
I posted the link but noticed the channel doesn't allow comments with links. Just go to the Mail online US page. It's obvious they are watching Mark's channel then just writing it up as an article. Not sure if that's fine or if it's plagiarism.
To the proponents of the villa being demolished, leveling the house just for the sake of it having harboured some Nazi would be to give it the special status or importance you say it doesn’t have and indeed does not deserve to have.
Wow!It's 2025 hrs where I live and my notification came in just as I picked up my device to check for Doc Felton's presentation for today.Rather uncanny, but you seem to know exactly when your vast audience all around the world expect these fine well researched videos.Well done.
