Berchtesgaden is a municipality in Bavaria, Germany, near the border with Austria, Adolf Hitler began vacationing in the area in the 1920s, purchasign a home in the Obersalzberg above the town and began extensive renovations in the following years. As other top Third Reich figures, such as Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Martin Bormann, Heinrich Himmler, and Albert Speer, began to frequent the area the Party began to purchase and requisition land in the Obersalzberg. After the war, Berchtesgaden became a military zone and most of its buildings were requisitioned by the U.S. Army.
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