Exploring the Ruins of Hitler's Berghof | History Traveler Episode 273

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Located in heart of the Obersalzberg of southern Germany was the place that was of utmost importance to Adolf Hitler: the Berghof. It was here that many of the most consequential decisions of the Third Reich were made, which is why it was a primary target for the Allies toward the end of the war. Even though the Berghof was largely destroyed by RAF bombers, there are still remains that can be seen today that give us a glimpse at this nerve center of evil in WWII.
Note: In the video, I say that Eva Braun had a video camera when I meant to say film camera.
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@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

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@vidiot57 Год назад

Good Job JD..

@johnmcmickle5685 Год назад

That extensive bunker system connected a lot of places. It even connected the Platterhof (the General Walker Hotel until 1996) and all the other houses belonging to NAZI officials.

@frechstudios3129 Год назад

Always enjoy your videos! I don’t know if you’ve addressed it or not but I was curious to know your thought on the series “hunting H*t l3r?” I don’t buy it but sometimes they get you thinking.

@johnmccree8941 Год назад

I've got a good Clint Eastwood/Richard Burton movie called "Where Eagles Dare". Great movie... looks like it could have been shot on location.

@thomaswyatt1471 Год назад

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@dokken1212 Год назад

As a long time lurker who has never commented but watch regularly I just wanted to drop in and say how much I enjoy your content. Love the videography and presentation. Thank you for your work and effort :-)

@matthewmoneypit1558 Год назад

Welcome to the group. Good to have you.

@dokken1212 Год назад

@@matthewmoneypit1558 Thank you Matthew and hope you are well :-)

@GhostofSicklesleg Год назад

Not lurker, fans of great historical content, since The History Channel abandoned true history. It’s a great respectful community JD has here.

@dokken1212 Год назад

@@GhostofSicklesleg thats a much better way of phrasing it 👍. Totally agree with your point about History Channel 👍👍

@kamikaze2666 Год назад

I second this opinion

@Steve-Cross Год назад

I was just thinking. If we were to destroy every building that had a dark past. Most of the ancient buildings we revere, wouldn’t exist. The Tower of London, for instance,or the Colosseum in Rome, where thousands lost their lives, purely for entertainment. At the end of the day, you just cannot wipe out history. Good or bad. These important sites must be preserved, but obviously not glorified. We must remember what happened here, and make sure it never happens again.

@lucianogardino9339 15 дней назад

A CLEVER PERSON THINK IN THIS WAY THE LOOSERS AND IDIOTS THEY THINK IS ENOUGH TO DESTROY AND EVEN THE HISTORY CAN BE FORGOTTEN... THE STUPIDS THEY EXIST JUST FOR THAT... AND IT COULD HAVE BEEN AS A MUTUAL INTEREST IN THE COUNTRY ITSELF.... LOOK THE WINDSOR CASTLE, RESTORED WITH A STUNNING MARKETING IDEA OF THE GADGETS.... AND HOW MUCH CAN BENEFIT EVERYBODY GIVING MONEY TO THE GOVERNMENT AND CREATE PLACES OF JOB

@robynw6307 Год назад

Part of me wishes the building was still there to see, but a bigger part of me is glad that the forest is taking it back. Great video again JD.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

I hear you.

@antonioacevedo5200 Год назад

The Berghof would have been a nazi shrine if the allies had not obliterated it.

@RanDomRikM Год назад

It should never have been destroyed.

@MikaelLV Год назад

It was built by the best German engineers and artists. The building was beautiful, no matter what you think about those who resided there.

@RanDomRikM Год назад

@@MikaelLV it should never have been destroyed.

@brakel8r Год назад

Im sure you are aware but if not...A youtube channel called Ruiter Productions does some of the best "then and now" of a lot of these locations. If you have not seen them...im sure you will enjoy the historical aspect. As always..thanks for the hard work

@josephclark4999 Год назад

I've seen them all and they are amazing. The fact that you can stand on the EXACT spot he stood is crazy. The place called Mooselanerkopf (my spelling is probably incorrect) has an incredible overlook where he would go. The benches are different but it is at about the same locations. P.S., my nephew is going there this summer. I will show him this video. He already knows the basic layout. He has tickets to the Eagle's Nest.

@court5231 Год назад

Thanks for the info! I just subscribed!

@TI4438 Год назад

Ruiter vids are top notch with great music.

@WSSALCRWSLOSCOMPADRESXIIIGANG Год назад

Seem em all over and over so long ago i watch one or two every now n then again

@jujulionesselsa1416 Год назад

@Joseph Clark...i was watchinga creator last night and he does these war history's too. And he explored these exact spots. He opened a shutter to a bunker and a siren went off - which was very bizarre.

@joshua.snyder Год назад

Well done, JD. Sites like these are fascinating, in that they show how fleeting power really is, that tyranny fails, and that change always comes. Let's hope the lesson of such ruins sinks in.

@jamesdellaneve9005 Год назад

We should obliterate the CDC’s buildings. Move them to Nebraska.

@Chiller01 Год назад

It’s also a reminder that authoritarianism is a persistent and tempting alternative. The democratic system devised by the founding fathers was a remarkable rebuff of authoritarian government. It has been refined to do away with slavery, give women and the poor the right to vote and restrain the more malignant and monopolistic sides of capitalism when required. We as citizens must be continuously aware of the temptations of authoritarianism and resist those tendencies irrespective of our political leanings.

@joshua.snyder Год назад

@@Chiller01 Absolutely. Orwell tapped into that danger in his writing, and we are tempted by it constantly.

@Hansen710 Год назад

It a place for nazis in 2023 to worship. I wonder how many from the german online police nazi forum that have also been there. Those people in the german police that was arested this week

@Hansen710 Год назад

@@Chiller01 democratic 🤣 Its a representive democracy (a replacement for democracy) Its as far away from real direct democracy as posible in 2023.. Voting for some random person with random opinions now and then, have nothing to do with democracy in 2023. It is actually the opposite

@herenowjal Год назад

It's so wonderful you have the opportunity to visit (and share) these amazing sites. Your videos are so amazing - Your camera work is exceptional - and the topics you share really take your viewers "back in time" to very interesting sites and periods of history. Thanks so much for sharing ...

@photoman2u 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so very much for this video. I have a lot of interest in the berghoff in that area in the Eagles Nest which I saw your video recently. You do a great job of this. I love having the old photographs to see how it was back then. One question I've had for years is why the Allies didn't bomb all of those homes and complexes a lot earlier in the war. They might have caught Hitler there himself. Perhaps there was a lot of anti-aircraft batteries or something but it's is puzzling that they did not try to destroy the berghoff and surrounding areas until the war was just about over.

@shauntemplar.26 Год назад

I was many of your first subscribers and watched every week, sadly Ukraine happened and I just left for Ukraine and did not fallow your channel a little after your work in Poland Ukrainian refugees until getting back home end of last year. then i just needed to heal ... I just gives me so good feeling to see all your hard work brother paying off. To see how your hard work, playing with your own money has made the channel grow to to well over 400K . When I last watched your channel subs where around 100 subs.. Congrats for the channel growth. Could not happen to better man bro.. now I sit back and catch up and your helping me keep mind focused . Thanks again for everything you do and keep up giving us all amazing content

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Appreciate that. What has happened in Ukraine over the past year has been nothing short of a tragedy. A shame that people over here don't know.

@shauntemplar.26 Год назад

@@TheHistoryUnderground I know. its heart breaking, I pray that no matter what the US does not stop sending what Ukraine needs to fight and other NATO. countries also. I just hope people see the horrors and far right dones not wreck what USA is doing because I tell you. Ukrainians thank US for doing what its doing... So much of Ukraine is just gone, cities, towns ,just ripped from this earth...I mean gone . Its tragic but I saw many of your films ,what you did helping Ukrainians who scared and had to leave with kids. I saw this as I was cross boarder too so many good people, thats was the hard part for me. I know you have roots from around there JD.. stay cool bro. and keep it up.. I'm watching your work right now.. so much to catch up on 👍

@zekesgirl100 Год назад

From Normandy through Germany, you have shown me places my father served. Thank you! He never spoke of any of it except to say less then 10% of his company came back.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Glad to share the experiences. Thanks for watching.

@marketablepresentations7824 Год назад

Thanks to your father and his sacrifice for my freedom. Thanks to your fathers compatriots for paying the ultimate price so all the free world can sleep in piece at night.

@jimblack5153 Год назад

My Father served in the Pacific and was the same way. I think a lot of WWII vets were hesitant to tell their children about what they had been through. I, by freak chance, engaged in an e-mail conversation with James Bradley, who wrote 'Flags of our Fathers', because he lived in the next town over from me. His Father was alleged to have been one of the Flag raisers on Iwo Jima, in that famous photo. His kids didn't know about this until he had passed. Interesting story.

@B727X 8 месяцев назад

@@marketablepresentations7824yes your freedom to be forced to use shownawns

@AllTheWorldsAStage88 4 месяца назад

Now we have rampant immigration and men in womens toilets.. Much appreciated...

@longmowervideo Год назад

I was there a few years ago. It is an eerie feeling to stand there among those trees. The beautiful nature, the birds singing, the tranquility. And, to contemplate the planning that took place on that very spot of the most heinous, evil actions of the 20th century. I had to just close my eyes and say a quiet prayer for humanity. The strangeness of it was overwhelming.

@christina3521 Год назад

You picked up on those who are not at rest from those times.

@SoCal780 Год назад

@@christina3521 I would have to say that I agree with you.

@ybex828 Год назад

Growing up in Poland, living a part of my life in Munich I was walking on the same streets he and his companions did, and I must say, I felt eerie every time...

@joshmartin1938 Год назад

Did you drive there / take a bus / train? Thanks...

@solvingpolitics3172 Год назад

Beautiful reflections!

@DavidWilliams-gh8vj Год назад

Loving the WWII content. I'm a history nut particularly when it comes to WWII. I became very interested in this time period when I learned that my grandfather was part of the D-Day landings. He was 1 of 5 out of his battalion to survive the landing. He was later wounded by grenade shrapnel in the hedgerows in France and that was the end of the war for him. I would give anything to be able to go to some of those sights.

@Lecruque Год назад

Respect and gratitude for his effort! Going to normandy in 2 weeks, and gonna visit the cemetery on Omaha where many of his comrades rest…

@tonyk1584 Год назад

I visited this area and found the footings for the house in 1970 while serving with the Army in Europe. I did not however have the stills that you embedded in this podcast to help me with my visualizations. Great stuff. I venture to guess that Tom Lewis had not yet been born when I was there. LOL I am soooo old! 76

@GeistView Год назад

As a private in 94 the USO sponsored single solders at the Platerhoff for 4 days. Did lots of exploring, walked around and inside the guest house ruins, went inside the old garage. Did the bunker tour from the platerhoff and from the Turken.

@jimblack5153 Год назад

Correction: Eva Braun was not shooting video in the famous footage at the Berghof. Home video cameras didn't exist back then. This was all shot on a 16mm film camera. Also, there are underground tunnels under the hotel Zum Turken that you can explore, and that lead to the Berghof, but that portion is bricked up, so the tunnels only go so far.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Would love to visit those tunnels.

@meemurthelemur4811 Год назад

Is your correction in the type of camera used to film the footage or are you saying that Eva Braun didn't shoot it?

@Bowruss Год назад

@@meemurthelemur4811 EB shot no video as video did not exist in the 1940s. She shot her home movies on a film camera.

@pamelar5868 Год назад

I think we got the gist of what he was trying to say even if exact terminology was wrong.

@joshmartin1938 Год назад

@@pamelar5868 Thank you.....

@andybecker8 Год назад

Man every time I tell myself “this is my favorite video he’s done!” Too only see another one and that take #1 lol! This one did it again! This was amazing amazing content (as always) 3 places I am absolutely making it to in my lifetime (God willing) Pearl Harbor ✅ … Normandy and right here where you are! Gotta say thank you to your whole team!! Y’all do such an amazing job!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Wow, thanks!

@whoovesphd1 Год назад

@Syd McCreath incorrect. Mother's maiden name is Braun. He pronounces it correctly.

@marketablepresentations7824 Год назад

@Syd McCreath that's a truly German sir name you have there.

@ТАТЬЯНАКолесникова-г8в Год назад

Как радосно,а освенцем,бухельванд ,и просто расрушения вас не волнуют придурки

@williambradford352 Год назад

Extremely well done presentation! Thank you for all of your fine work and dedication to filming historic locations from the WWII period that the majority of people will never have the opportunity to see in person. Your talent enabling you to compare old and new photographic images of various locations is the best I have seen.

@thebelligerentbeaver3344 Год назад

It’s crazy that you are standing in a spot where so much history happened. Not good history, but history. Thank you for sharing.

@AmberPearcy Год назад

Thank you, JD! Always so beautifully done. I’m especially fond of how you musically score your videos. Just perfect!

@swgeek4310 Год назад

Really adds to the video quality

@nonofinn7136 Год назад

I love the little interludes where the camera looks at the forest floor, or the birds… very nice and creative. :)

@ericscottstevens Год назад

The most interesting story about this complex is a female visitor was there for a prewar party. As the sun set it lit up the sky a blood red composition. It was beautiful to the NSDAP loyal who marveled at it and it figuring it was a grand omen to the optimistic grandiose future ahead. However this woman started screaming hysterically, saying "....you see this blood sky?..."it means death and destruction for us all, and Germany". Alarmed the entourage was speechless at her declaration of doom that did not fit the narrative of pre victory party. Not sure she was ever identified but she predicted the future of AH and the regime that night.

@joeparvana9549 Год назад

Dictator says, "I will control the world". Mother Nature says, "I can wait you out"....well done JD.

@jstephenallington8431 Год назад

With everything that has been happening with your channel, I wanted to be sure to watch before anything happens to your video. Love your channel, it's a valuable look into history, it's absolutely wonderful.

@fredricjulien8738 Год назад

Thanks again JD. I didn't think that the Berghof got so destroyed by bombing. In a way, I'm disappointed that people can't see it the way it was before it was destroyed. The nerve center of evil left to only a pile of earth and crumbled concrete walls. To the victor goes the spoils, I guess. Hope you didn't get your boots too muddy. Thanks again for sharing.

@carlenlanser2276 Год назад

Even though the actual building was destroyed you did an excellent job showing the location through walking the area & inserting many historical photographs & videos. Great job again JD!

@Hansen710 Год назад

I love even though it is destroyed, the owner stiil though it was worth to keep as a place where people could worship their believes

@marketablepresentations7824 Год назад

@@Hansen710 what the hell is that supposed to mean. Worship thier beliefs? It's buffoons that have no interest in history and would be doomed to repeat said history.

@frenchfan3368 Год назад

Wow! What is so ironic about this area is that it is obviously located in some very beautiful scenery that was occupied by some very ugly people and ideology. It just goes to show that you cannot judge a book by its cover. This was a very well done episode that will educate for generations to come!

@leelarson107 Год назад

I've been to the Berghof ruins many times, and there is still a vast archeological dig waiting to happen. I managed to come away with a stone from the NW corner of the foundation, as well as the drain pipe from the kitchen sink. Those are oddball items, but that's better than everything being obliterated. **And someone should do a video-doc on why there is such a strong and ongoing interest in the Third Reich even in the face of the crises facing us today.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Pretty interesting place.

@ryleyw3684 Год назад

Just curious why is there a bigger interest

@incog99skd11 Год назад

As the bus driver on the way up to the Berghof said, 'we in Germany do not want these places to become touristique." It seems the more the Germans detest WWII tourism, the more power they give to the history.

@Dont_Tread_on_Me448 Год назад

The reason there is a strong and ongoing interest is coz every time there is a crisis people like AH capitalise on it as a stepping stone to their rise to power , unfortunately for us we are heading in the same direction today as it was in 1920s post ww1 , something worse is definitely on the way , or it's already manifesting itself here in the form of authoritarian states like the DPRK or China but a huge war is definitely on the way within the next 20 years

@a.r.stellmacher8709 Год назад

Yes, why are people so fascinated with Hitler and the Third Reich? So many people seem to be drawn to evil.

@janfast4712 Год назад

Thanks a lot again. Very well narrated and filmed :)

@Wreckdiver59 Год назад

I've been waiting for this one 👍 I went looking for this in the '90s and there wasn't any signage like there is now, but I believe we found it just based on an old aerial photo. I do remember the retaining wall and a few steps. I have a picture taken in 1945 of my then 19 year old father in law standing in front of the bay window. There was a hand made sign in the window that said "Hitler's Home" and a lot of graffiti on the wall below the window. I've seen pictures of other soldiers standing in the same place (There's one in the 20th AD book I gave you). It was a pretty popular place for soldiers in the area to visit after the war ended.

@mweinbender Год назад

Once again I've watched a few vids over the years about the Berghof but never got a sense of how it was laid out until watching your video. Great watch!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Thanks!

@denflyr Год назад

Great job sir! Was there in September 22. There mainly for the Eagles Nest Tour but I did my “inner JD” thing and researched where the Goring House was and Berghoff. Was able to walk in your same steps. Great content and amazing commentary! Keep up the awesome work!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Ha! Awesome.

@garretvaughn7936 Год назад

Always a great way to spend a Sunday morning...cup of tea and the History Underground! Thanks so much!

@markleach116 Год назад

Another great educational video JD! So sorry that RU-vid has decided to harass you!

@chadmiddleton829 8 месяцев назад

The passion you have for history is contagious. I am also really impressed by your sense of right and wrong, which speaks highly of your upbringing! Thanks for sharing sights that most of us have never seen.

@Qigate Год назад

When JD knocked on the metal security door of the escape tunnel, I seriously expected to hear the three knocks in reply.... spooky place it is!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Ha!

@joshmartin1938 Год назад

me too- or Wer geht dorthin?

@snotwurfit 2 месяца назад

What brought me to this video is having just completed the Berghof mission on the excellent Sniper Elite 5. Having watched a few videos this evening I can see how the game developers painstakingly recreated the building with full historical detail. I walked into the great room with the piano and fireplace as shown in this video and booby trapped the piano, in case Hitler decided to tickle the ivories. In the end I found him hiding in an upstairs bathroom and assassinated him by throwing a nade in there.

@jeffhester1443 Год назад

Thank you. That had to be an ominous, ghostly walk through those eerie woods. Such a beautiful place so touched by evil it may remain uninhabited forever. Again thank you for sharing with us JD.

@mjblack2010 Год назад

Back in the early 90's, a band I was in played for two weeks at the Hotel General Walker. The drummer and I bunked together and we could see the area where the Berghof had been from the window our room in the hotel. As we were there playing for the military, our liaison arranged for us to go a tour of the tunnels underneath the hotel that connected all of these sites together. it was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. I believe at that time they were doing tours daily for any guests of the hotel, but it may have been a special thing. The entire two week stay was fascinating. I didn't see any ghosts, but the bizarre history of this place saturated every inch of that property. We got to know the staff of the little bar/dance hall we played at pretty well. They were young and from other countries, Canada, France, etc. just there working the ski season before traveling all summer. We partied with them after the show on most nights. I'll never forget this Canadian guy that worked there played War Pigs over the house P.A. in the dance hall at 3:00 a.m. Your impressive video really brought back the memories, man. Thanks!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

👍🏻

@EvinMA Год назад

I get excited to view new content. Then I get sad when it’s over. I wish they were longer. You need to buy some Wellies for those mucky days.

@mikemontgomery2654 Год назад

I’ve been to all the sites you’ve been making videos about in your recent trip to Germany. You’ve definitely accessed more than I was able to, in some of them anyway. Thank you for showing the world what these places look like. I try to convince people to see for themselves but, people are gonna people.

@marketablepresentations7824 Год назад

I might be tempted to visit these sites if I had the funds to do so. You are blessed to be able to do so.

@mikemontgomery2654 Год назад

@@marketablepresentations7824 well, I was at the time. I saved and the world was a cheaper place. There weren’t any crazies trying to shame me for getting on an airplane.

@WhisperSonnet 10 месяцев назад

What an incredible channel. And you're a great tour guide! So grateful I stumbled upon this!

@UncaDave Год назад

“Video camera” is more a term from our age. Eva had film camera the type of which you might make home movies. I think the German film company Agfa (might just be the name of the film) pioneered color film, thus the reason they are in color. Also remember she knew something about film as she was Heinrich Hoffman’s assistant before she met Hitler. Hoffman was Hitler’s personal photographer of all of his photographs. He preserved and hid the negatives of them and in the 1960’s best I remember, he sold the whole lot to Life magazine. Somewhere in their negative warehouse, sits the whole pile. They showed some of them in an issue of that time but not much else has been printed. I hope that they are stored properly as they definitely are a view, tragic as it is, on the sad history of that time.

@kgb4187 Год назад

Video: a recording of an image or of moving images. No need to be so pedantic.

@kgb4187 Год назад

@G. Private Nah, it's RU-vid. You don't even use proper punctuation on here because you know it's not important.

@leahjones9626 Год назад

@@kgb4187 stop policing people so much! They’re just trying to share facts. Could be valuable to someone OTHER than you! You’re wasting so much energy doing this, and you’re becoming the annoying one.

@kgb4187 Год назад

@@leahjones9626 Calm down ma'am, they're presenting "facts" in a shitty way that invalidates the information as they are untrustworthy.

@sadiejustin Год назад

It's simply amazing that anyone can just walk up into that space and place themselves into an area where so much happened. I've been there by way of Google Street view, but it doesn't show the escape hatch. Well, at least it didn't last I "travelled". Fascinating episode!

@SpaceHCowboy Год назад

Another fine job JD. You should be awarded a Pulizter or grammy for your work. You handle such provocative subjects with tac and professionalism.

@FLjcollins Год назад

I miss living in Germany- Bavaria is one of the most beautiful places on earth.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Absolutely.

@anthonydm2947 Год назад

I can’t say enough how much I appreciate your videos. So interesting and informative. Great job!!

@sugandhakohli Год назад

I have a very strange obsession with Berchtesgaden and its surrounding area. Berghoff and its giant window glass overlooking the beautiful Alps particularly fascinates me. If I ever visit Germany, Berchtesgaden would definitely be on my "to visit" list. Thanks for making such a detailed video

@nadirsantos7894 9 месяцев назад

Creio que as imensas janelas são do ninho das águias e ainda estão lá. A casa atualmente um restaurante.

@palerider964 Год назад

It's a darn shame those buildings were destroyed. They should've been preserved for posterity.

@lollypop2413 Год назад

I wouldnt want to be near it....breathing the same air he breathed.

@darrinsmith1588 Год назад

Very cool place to explore. My brother and I were there a few years ago and we actually hiked down through the woods from the Dokumnetation Obersalzberg. As a WWII history buff, it was very surreal to walk on the road in front of the house that is featured in so many historical newsreels. Walking up the road to the Hotel Garni and exploring the underground bunkers is a must if you’re there. Thanks again JD for the excellent narration

@oldtanker4860 Год назад

That is such a beautiful area I have no doubt that anyone who saw it would fall in love with the view. It is such a pity that it will be forever tainted by the sheer amount of evil perpetrated there. Thanks for the video. Oh and Braun didn't take "video", she took home movies with a movie camera. ;)

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

😅👍🏻

@phyllishershkowitz3806 Год назад

Always interesting. Two things struck me: That Hitler was able to see Austria from his patio, and when Himmler and his cohorts were shown in casual clothing on that same patio, looking "ordinary" but knowing what they did seems crazy to me.

@choossuck7653 Год назад

You have been told lies. Research for yourself. Dont just stay with the mainstream. You will be surprised. Unless you are a hateful bigot.

@vonpfrentsch Год назад

Why does it struck you that AH could see Austria from his patio? Probably a lack of geographic knowledge. We can see the austrian alps even out of Munich.

@phyllishershkowitz3806 Год назад

@@vonpfrentsch It was the first country he coveted and took. That he had that view struck me.

@vonpfrentsch Год назад

@@phyllishershkowitz3806 I still don´t understand. AH was born and raised in Austria. He spent a few years in Vienna, where he tried twice to get admitted at the Art Academy. When the nazis "took" Austria, like you said, that happened at a very different place than the Berghof. Since this part (Tyrol) of Austria is just around the corner, why shouldn´t he be able to see "Austria"?

@phyllishershkowitz3806 Год назад

@@vonpfrentsch You are looking at this from a geographical understanding, I am looking at it differently. He was able to see his trophy from his patio. Perhaps it is only my thought and not relatable?

@jenniferwannemacher8627 Год назад

As far as the tunnels go, we stayed at the General Walker (platterhof) in the late 80's and you could take a tour of the bunker under there at that time.

@conditionallyunconditional5691 Год назад

I found relics there 22 yrs ago. The only visible part of the berghoff left, was part of the garage. The trees have grown more since then. Thanks for the update.

@speckledjim_ Год назад

What kind of artefacts? If you don't mind me asking

@sandua51 Год назад

They destroyed that and lots of other things during the "renovations" in the late 1990's.

@browngreen933 Год назад

My cousin, stationed in Germany while serving in the US Army in the 1970s, took a brick from the Berghoff.

@sandua51 Год назад

Yup. I have some brick, stone and some nails from there.@@browngreen933

@alanschusler4691 Год назад

I was there in 73 and have a piece of brick from the basement. I understand that a lot was “ destroyed” when they did upgrades in the 90s

@Pak-pq6me Год назад

Awesome stuff. Thank you for keeping history alive while so many are trying to erase it.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@briankesterson4365 Год назад

Your travels and videos are definitely true research projects come to fruition! Well done as always!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

🙏🏼

@Inkling777 Год назад

Those who'd like a very different look at life in Obersalzberg during the Nazi era might read Irmgard Hunt's _On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood._ She was a child in the town during that time and gives a remarkably honest and personal perspective that you'll not find in history books.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Interesting.

@ED-ti5tc Год назад

Very interesting video. Something I have never seen or heard of before. That would be awesome to be able to go in that tunnel. Beautiful scenery from the window. I tell folks about your channel here and really hope they check it out. Best history channel I've ever found. Thanks for bringing us along.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it! Hope to get into those tunnels sometime in the future.

@2009Berghof Год назад

My understanding is that most of what was the SS barracks, located behind and uphill of the Beghof was bulldozed atop the Berghof's rubble after the Berghof was blown up in the 1950's. Might I suggest the founder of the WWII Historical Re-enactment Society's book, A BRIDGE TO TIME, A Re-enactor's Journey. The author takes you there via his novel based on the British SOE plan to assassinate A.H. It is a what if tale, followed by the story of how the WWII HRS came to be. Terry made every effort to pump as much historical fact into the tale as possible.

@KatieP219 Год назад

I love the way you explain everything. Easy to understand. Thank you for documenting everything the way you do!

@41magfan Год назад

No graffiti for the win. Some times history sucks.

@OldManTomJulio Год назад

This was the surprising thing for me as well. I truly believe that the majority of modern Germans take their history past and hold it close as to remember the pain that came before.

@America-First2024 Год назад

Thank you for lining up photos with the location of where you are standing. I didn’t know that the hotel was so close and being used basically as an overwatch. 👍🏻

@cindyrussell7017 Год назад

How cool was that window!!!!? I never knew. Once again, you give historical nuggets to wet our history taste buds!!!! Thank you for all your hard work.

@amauicelticconnectionandot2674 Год назад

great job...rare pics...good background...even the music is kind of spooky.

@reaperthemad8731 Год назад

Does anybody else find it morbidly funny that somber historical videos like this are often interrupted by ridiculous upbeat commercials? The channel takes great care to match the subject matter with respectful music (IMO) and then the ad break is like "(upbeat music) OMG BUY ONE OF THESE YAY!!!!" I wish RU-vid could find a way to fairly monetize historical/educational videos without commercial interruption, but we all know that will never happen.

@ww-rd1jm Год назад

get premium, no commercials

@omarhamid3638 Год назад

Excellent work from one of my favourite channels now! Always such interesting history and explorations. Thanks very much for all your hard work and wishing you all success 👏✌️👍

@jared1870 Год назад

Thank you for sacrificing your shoes to bring us this video. I am sick in bed today so I appreciate the history tour. Keep well. Keep safe.

@120badbubba Год назад

Just watched this video tonight. Literally been watching about 10 of your videos per day. Incredible content, locations and presentation! I'm SE of Pittsburgh, near Fort Necessity, Jumonville, Braddocks Grave, etc. I'm not on your knowledge level, but enjoy the WWII content. Then WWI and Civil War. Keep up the great work filming at locations and explaining history.

@billharshaw4739 Год назад

Drop everything! It's History Underground time!

@66Bunn Год назад

Thank you for pointing out where the terrace was. I've watched Eva's home movies quite a bit and had always tried to orientate where specific areas of the Berghoff were. I originally thought (very early on) that the terrace was right at the top of the entrance steps. Just because Eva did so much filming of people coming and going, then cut right to the terrace, that it seemed the steps lead to the terrace. Thanks for showing where that stood. I'm been wanting (for most of my life) to visit Europe and do my own WWII site seeing tour and this spot, obviously, is on my list.

@matthewmoneypit1558 Год назад

Very well done JD. Kept pausing and lining up shots. Just amazing.

@christina3521 Год назад

Kudos mentioning the giant retracting window. Sweet job on splicing in contextual photos/footage.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

🙏🏼

@piercedriver1 Год назад

I love history and love your very informative videos. Thanks for teaching history, it should never be forgotten.

@Cann488 Год назад

One of my favourite videos JD! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. This video link here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9a8keY5Oxjc.html might interest you, if you want to see behind that metal door! As far as I’m aware, the last time anyone entered the actual Berghof bunker system from the escape door you were stood at. It was filmed in 1999. It’s a long video, but fascinating!

@johnstup4479 Год назад

Currently binge watching the entire series and now up to video 177. Love these videos JD. So many places that I will never have the opportunity to visit. So thankful to see these.

@UncaDave Год назад

I really enjoy your work. My father was a supply Sgt. for Patton in WWII with Hq. Btry 465th AAA Auto Wpns and went through the Ardennes, Central Europe, northern France and the Rhineland with his old Kodak 35 mm camera. I have all of his photographs that were passed by the censors. Most are of bombed out towns and bridges and field locations. Europe was really pretty much destroyed at that time. I even have his letters he wrote my Mom. Before he died he only talked about it maybe three or four times. When he got home he helped start the VFW Club in Stratford, CT and became one of its past Presidents, Milton P. Holcomb was his name. He couldn’t watch a parade with the military passing with the colors (old Glory and regimental flags) without tearing up. They truly were “the greatest generation”. Thank you again for keeping the history alive which hopefully encourages people, especially youth, to read about this time.

@zolfodor4835 Год назад

Absolutely fascinated by WW1 & WW2,& love watching your videos,history is so important,but unfortunately we will never learn,thank you for everything you do 👌👌❤️❤️

@ronopiela1959 Год назад

This, like many of your videos, has to be one of my favorites. The details you provide are truly incredible. I will also be visiting Gettysburg this spring after watching your Civil War series. I certainly appreciate the great education

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Thanks!

@dwaynerichie441 Год назад

I and my friend were all over those hills and I have some pictures of me in that same place and as this was in 1984 when I was stationed in West Germany there was more of the structure visible like the trough that the big window set in and the first window at the corner of the garage and the steps was still above ground love watching your great videos where I was thanks

@mynameis3568 Год назад

This part of Germany/ Austria is so beautiful. We will drive to Oberjoch tomorrow. Thanks for showing one of the places I want to visit.

@ronalddesiderio7625 Год назад

Kinda funny how Eva just home 🎥 movied these cats. I wonder 💭 what they were thinking. Oh how sweet she’s taking home movies of us. . Little did she know how priceless they are to history

@nonofinn7136 Год назад

You have no idea how great it is to tune out of the noise and tune into a new THU video. Thanks again, JD.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Thanks! So glad that you’re enjoying it.

@clericpreston5701 Год назад

Seeing the area of the Berghof again brought back so many memories of when we went there and to the Eagles nest. The large drop-down window is still in its receiving socket under all that dirt. Hitler designed the layout of the Berghof himself and because he put the garage right in front of the window the Berghof would fill with car exhaust fumes when the window was open. We were able to access the tunnel system from Zum Tucken and could get to a point that was blocked up that would have connected with the tunnel system to the Berghof.

@michaelhovey1698 Год назад

Your videos are so good it is almost like being there. Perfect for an armchair historian wannabe like me. Love your numerous battlefield tours of all conflicts

@Saba-lz2qg Год назад

Thanks for a interesting Video. A was at Berghof scene in 1992, and the Garage was left. When I came back last summer, even the Garage was gone. Some other buildings was gone since 1992. Do you know what happend to all these buildnings? RAF reunion?

@cfredochsner8155 Год назад

I was stationed in Germany in the early 80s I have been, to this area many times. Once we found an opening and literally dropdown inside, and walked around. after about 75 feet we came across several empty rooms nothing was in them. We traveled for about 200 feet, and when we came to an end it was blocked by rubble. My friend had a printed map, and after looking it over we figured out that it was probably Göring's escape tunnel

@nadirsantos7894 9 месяцев назад

Berghof foi totalmente dinamitada em 1952 e a floresta plantada sobre os cacos.😊

@twlowe19 Год назад

Sometimes I thinmk its a shame they didn't preserve the house as a museum .. and a warning. Seemed like quite a place, but perhaps the authorities at the time were right, they didn't want it to become a shrine vice a museum ... But it would be fascinating to walk through that place as it was ... creepy and fascinating.

@benjaminrush4443 Год назад

I'll bet it was beautiful and peaceful before Hitler. The Photos do really help. Amazed how Nature quickly erases any footprints of man. Well Hitler wanted Everything in Germany 'Totally Destroyed'. He got his wish for the Berghof. Great Podcast as usual. Thanks.

@nancymilawski1048 Год назад

They didn't have enough explosives to destroy everything though. 😀😀

@grungeisdead8998 Год назад

"Hitler wanted everything in Germany totally destroyed" wasn't that the exact opposite of what he was aiming to do he wanted to turn Germany into the main world superpower and create an empire not fucking destroy the land lmfao

@patrickmccrann991 Год назад

My Dad was stationed in the Navy with a sailor who was related to Eva Braun. Second cousins I think he said. The Braun family did not have nice things to say about her. Black Sheep of the family was about the nicest thing said about her.

@Gascan26 Год назад

Great job. I could see everything you described. Wow. To stand in the exact footsteps of history. To see the same mountains as seen in the background of the films. Just amazing work. Great video today, love the channel.

@Trevorian9T Год назад

What an amazing place, I Tey and visit here as much as I can to pay homage to such a legendary mind. Shame his fruition couldn't be accomplished. It gives you such a sense of awe. Thousands of like-minded people come here for the same reason. There is a society in Berchtesgaden that still think fondly and wish the old days were here. Its all on a low key affair, but it's vast within Berchtesgaden and Bad Reichenhall. Keep up these videos so more of us know the lost historic places to pay homage.

@PCPAyLOAD Год назад

Great work as usual. Don't let the idiots at youtube discourage you. I am one of at least 387K subs that's got your back!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Thanks!

@harryfaber Год назад

Did you get a cup of coffee in the railway station? Very interesting building, bags of history and way bigger than the tiny town needs, unless you use it to bring in thousands of troops and labourers.

@marybeck7594 Год назад

Great video, never a dull moment in Germany, our family goes back to the visigoths. Looking up the hills reminds you of califonia homes.

@pauledwards5573 Год назад

I picked up a book in Waterstones. Medium format. ALL about the construction of the whole area including Keilstine house and all other structures. Lots of old pictures. It also has laid out page by page of the costs of all materials itemised! It also talks about the men who were killed during construction of course as you can see its topography is steep and rocky and pretty dangerous! Interesting book. Goes into a lot of dett about everything and the builders manager's involved.

@kev050177 11 месяцев назад

Hi Paul, what is the title? Thanks.

@1psychofan Год назад

This is awesome! JD you did so great on this! I love the archival footage and photos placed just right….artfully done!! Great work!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@markpalmer6760 Год назад

My friend has a cherub figurine from the ceiling of the berghof taken by his step dad who was part of the troops that had the pleasure of going up there to enjoy the views.

@dragonpullman23 Год назад

Considering how close this Berghof was to the border with Austria, it really gives you a sense of why the Von Trapps (the family depicted in the Sound of Music) needed to escape Austria when they did.

@amauicelticconnectionandot2674 Год назад

that's how hitler met eva braun...she worked at a photography studio in munich where hitler went to get his portraits done...she was a photo buff, big time, for the day...hitler had a few other love interests as well...they all met with sad endings...Femme fatale Geli Raubal was found with a bullet in her chest and Hitler's gun by her side. Who fired Hitler's gun that night?

@howardbranscom Год назад

Excellent video. EVERYTHING you do is excellent. The visuals, the narratives.....thank you.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Thank you very much!

@Bigboytravel Год назад

Great video! We were lucky enough to be allowed to film the tunnels under the Turken right before covid and before it closed as a hotel. It is crazy to see where this pyscho made his propaganda in person, but most tourist just flock to the Eagles Nest. The ruins of the cabin where he finish Mein Kampf is also still there near the Obersalzburg bus stop

@somedayDefect Год назад

This is fantastic! I toured the WWII sites in Munich, Dachau (Most don't know it's a city), Schaffhausen, Nuremberg, Berchtesgaden, and the Obersalzberg back in 2017. We stayed at the Kempinski Hotel while on the Obersalzberg. We didn't have a car. Just the bus and the train and the one time taxi from Berchtesgaden to the Kempinski when we stayed too late walking around. We crawled all around the area on foot and there is so much to see (not to mention the place is just gorgeous!) I hope you got to go up the hill to Goering's house site. We walked into the woods beyond the helicopter landing pad and found some stone steps we believed that walked up the front porch of the home. We didn't tour with Tom Lewis but the owner, Christine, of the tour company he works for. It was a private tour and my God we saw things that most people don't and she kept us from the crowds at the Eagles Nest (Yes we got a private tour of the MAN engine generator room). You certainly walked me back in memory lane with these videos. You could fill days and days of video just of the sites on the Obersalzberg. Thank you and well done mate! Subscribed!

@judybridges4199 Год назад

Thank you for sharing. I am making plans to go very soon.

@32dras Год назад

Yup, Hitler wasn't crazy about Eagle Nest, US solders after war made a bigger deal of it then it was, but on the other hand, H was crazy about Bergfof, spending there more time then in Berlin. Not praising H by any mean, but how beautiful nature there is, don't blame him for wanting spend time there.