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The Berghof was connected to the Platterhof Hotel by a series of complex bunkers deep in the mountain which exist to this day, some of which can be toured from the new German Documentation Center as well as the old Zum Turken Hotel which borders the old complex of ruins. The government of Bavaria has plowed under most every trace of the actual house which was the Berghof as well as the Hotel Platterhof where many Nazi officers stayed while visiting Hitler.

The Berghof was set on fire on May 4, 1945 by the retreating SS guards when the Allies approached. (Hitler was not there when the area fell – he was under siege in Berlin where he took his own life in the Führerbunker). The buildings are gone but the tunnel system, which still exist today, is a masterpiece of underground engineering built at great speed and powered by a subterranean engine like the one that remains at the Eagle's Nest. This provides power to run the elevator. The site is itself scenic; the valley below appears by illusion as a lake almost at one's feet.

1 Allied Capture

The fictional war series Band of Brothers depicts the Berghof being taken by troops of E company of 506th a regiment of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division without a shot being fired. As is often the case it was more complicated and messy than the limitation of dramatic reconstruction allows. The first allied troops to arrive were U.S. 3rd Infantry Divisionpatch of the United States Army 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized). The 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized —nicknamed the Rock of the Marne is a United States Army infantry division based at Fort Stewart, Georgia. History It left the United States in Octob who secured Berchtesgaden and the Berghof. They were followed four days later by the French 2nd Armoured Division who secured the Eagles Nest, then 1st Battalion of the 506th a regiment, led by Company 'C'. The 3rd battalion of the 506th came into Berchtesgaden by a different route and lost men in a skirmish with the crews of two German 88mm Guns.

2 see also

• Operation FoxleyOperation Foxley was a plan drafted during World War II by the British to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Although an assassination attempt was never made, historians believe the most likely date for an attempt would have been July 13, 1944 or July 14, 1944 whe A British SOEThe Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called "the Baker Street Irregulars" after Sherlock Holmes's fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by me plan to assassinate Hitler.

3 External links

• http://www.101airborneww2.com/bandofbrothers7.html