The Twisted Legacy of Hitler's Mountain Retreat

WAR ARTICLESThe Twisted Legacy of Hitler’s Mountain Retreat

on December 23, 2012 at 17:45
It was a pleasant, dignified and very Bavarian celebration. There was a brass band, a group in lederhosen and dirndls, local dignitaries and even a close associate of the pope. All of them were there to attend the dedication of the Wegmacher chapel, a small roadside chapel in Obersalzberg, Adolf Hitler’s mountain headquarters in the southeast corner of Germany.

Matthias Ferwagner, head of the building authority in the nearby town of Traunstein, told a touching story about a girl named Sophia who had cancer and placed daisies on the chapel’s walls as a way of comforting her parents and how, shortly thereafter, the chapel was able to open its doors and fulfill its purpose of bestowing divine protection on Bavaria’s road-construction workers and drivers.

Now, 13 years on, many of the guests who attended the dedication are starting to wish the chapel had never been built. It is difficult to ascertain, of course, whether the building is fulfilling is sacred function of protecting travelers. What is clear, however, is that the chapel is causing nothing but trouble in the secular world.

The red marble flagstones on the chapel’s floor are now rumored to have an unpleasant past, and many locals fear that the nearly 10 square meters (108 square feet) of stone used to build it could become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis and National Socialist die-hards, thereby creating a problem for the tourist industry serving the surrounding area.

The reason for this apprehension is a belief held by some that these flagstones may once have adorned the terrace of the Berghof, Adolf Hitler’s mountainside retreat on the Obersalzberg, towering above the town of Berchtesgaden. Florian Beierl, a historian who has been looking into the history of the Berghof, is one of those who adheres to this idea.

Since Beierl went public with his theory in the International Herald Tribune in February, the chapel has been a major topic of discussion in the region. And now that some people are calling for the chapel to be demolished, local newspapers, Bavarian television stations and the online media have been debating whether Beierl should have just kept his mouth shut. In his defense, Beierl says that sweeping his suspicions under the rug would have gone against the seriousness called for when dealing with Germany’s Nazi past.

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I´d like to see some proof first... " May have been" is not good enough proof for me. If you gonna get rid of every stone that Hitler walked on or touched, you are gonna have a big job ahead of you.

 

It wouldn't matter anyway, the retards will always find some excuse to create a shrine.

 

I'll bet this crap is still going on a hundred years from now. It's rather like the "collective guilt" that Americans are supposed to feel over slavery and the silliness that ensues when somebody displays a Confederate flag today.
Put a ten Euro collection box at the door and if some "Neo" wants to walk on the flagstones, let him. Put the money collected to good use.

 

What a storm in a teacup.

So what if "some of the flagstones are from the patio of the Berghof".

Some Germans make me cringe with their efforts 'keeping up appearences' , all designed to show what a great and good Non-Nazi they are. It leads them to make complaints about the most insignificant of connections.

It's GOOD to have Nazi ruins. It's a fitting tribute to a regime that everybody should be reminded about. The site of Third Reich Ruins should gladden the hearts of people.

After all, if those buildings were still intact, history would be different, and The Reich would have survived.

So, I 'enjoy' every shot of a ruinous Reich.

Maybe one should be mindful of Basil Fawlty...."Whatever you do, don't mention the war....". Your past is your past. No sense hiding from it. Embrace it, and realize that nothing will change it now.

 

It is common all over Europe to re-use building materials, if we remove every stone that might have been touched by darkness half the monuments and historic buildings of the world would have to be torn down.