* HITLER'S "EAGLE'S NEST" ~ ORIGINAL 1945 PHOTO *

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*** HITLER'S "EAGLE'S NEST" ~ ORIGINAL 1945 PHOTO *** If you are looking for a superb wartime image for your collection or display, then look no further. This photo of the "Eagle's Nest" was taken by a member of the US Army 3rd Division. The photo is in EXCELLENT CONDITION, measures 2 5/8" x 3 5/8", is beautifully printed with superb detail and bears the photographer's stamp on the reverse. Adolph Hitler was introduced to the Obersalzberg, a mountain retreat area above Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, in mid-1923. In 1925 Hitler stayed in a small cottage on the Obersalzberg upon his release from Landsberg prison, following the failed Munich putsch of 9 November 1923. In this cottage, later called the "Kampfhäusl," Hitler wrote the second part of Mein Kampf. In 1927 he rented and later bought a mountain retreat called Haus Wachenfeld. This house became the basis for a later expansion that turned the peaceful, out-of-the-way Obersalzberg retreat into a huge complex of official buildings, mostly closed to the public. Leaders such as Hermann Göring and Albert Speer had houses in this complex, to be close to their Führer, but the mastermind of the Obersalzberg complex was Reichsleiter Martin Bormann who also had a house t, overlooking Hitler's. Martin Bormann's most lavish achievement was the Kehlsteinhaus or "Eagles Nest", built on read more

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