Center of Nazi power

Hitler’s war orders came from the mountain idyll

Crime and natural idyll were close together.(Bild: picturedesk.com/Anonym, Tourismus Berchtesgaden, Krone KREATIV)

Many of Hitler's war orders - as we now know - came from his Berghof in the idyllic Bavarian mountains. A golden elevator took him to the Adlerhorst in 41 seconds. And Hitler's little Reich Chancellery still exists today.

The grandiose mountain world beguiles the senses: the Göll, 2522 meters high, the legendary Untersberg, where Emperor Karl is said to await the last days of mankind, the Jenner, the mighty Watzmann, sung about by Wolfgang Ambros. In front of it is Berchtesgaden, named after a Norse goddess.