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Two Original Postcards of the Berghof

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Two Original Postcards of the Berghof-For many years German Chancellor Adolf Hitler had a holiday home with a magnificent view on the Obersalzberg high above the small Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden. Hitler renamed it the Berghof or Mountain Home. He and his entourage, and invited guests spent a lot of time there, winter and summer, inside the SS guarded compound known as the Führergebiet. The house was bombed to bits in the very last days of the war, and stood in ruins until 1952 when it was leveled with explosives. Since then, the town of Berchtesgaden and the Bavarian government have spent a great deal of money attempting to dismantle, destroy, carry away, bury or otherwise obliterate surface evidence that Hitler, Göring, Bormann, Speer and other top leaders ever lived on the Obersalzberg. We have a very nice photo postcard of the Berghoff, as well as a photo of a grand dining room. There is old scotch tape on the reverse as someone had these displayed. These are both very clean, and in very good shape.