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Ruins of the Reich is a documentary series that traces the rise and fall of the Third Reich through its architecture.Written and directed by film maker R. J. Adams, the film's "then and now" format focuses on the primary sites that played key roles from Hitler's rise to his final days in his Berlin bunker.
The nearby former hotel "Türken" was turned into quarters to house the Reichssicherheitsdienst (Reich Security Service; RSD) SS security men who patrolled the grounds of the Berghof. [17] It was later occupied by the Generalmajor of the Police. (The hotel was rebuilt in 1950 and reopened as a hotel before Christmas, the Hotel zum Türken.
View from Kehlsteinhaus. Obersalzberg is a mountainside retreat situated above the market town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, Germany.Located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) south-east of Munich, close to the border with Austria, it is best known as the site of Adolf Hitler's former mountain residence, the Berghof, and of the mountaintop Kehlsteinhaus, popularly known in the English-speaking world ...
Kehlsteinhaus.com. Historical Overview and Guide. "Das Kehlsteinhaus". The Third Reich in Ruins. "Eagle's Nest". studiosevenum.nl. Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. 360° Virtual Tour of Kehlsteinhaus. "Kehlsteinhaus". Berchtesgaden. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 "Kehlsteinhaus - Hitler's Eagles Nest". August 9, 2017.
He instigated the infamous Night of Broken Glass in 1938, pogroms during which 30,000 Jewish men were rounded up and sent to concentration camps, the Nazis’ first mass arrests of Jews for ...
Berchtesgaden National Park pictures and information; PhotoGlobe – Berchtesgadener Land offers high quality photos of the area around Berchtesgaden together with GPS coordinates. AFRC Timeline "Third Reich in Ruins" (in English) (historical and modern comparison photos) Pictures from Berchtesgaden; Map of Bavaria in 1789
The construction of new buildings served other purposes beyond reaffirming Nazi ideology. In Flossenbürg and elsewhere, the Schutzstaffel built forced-labor camps where prisoners of the Third Reich were forced to mine stone and make bricks, much of which went directly to Albert Speer for use in his rebuilding of Berlin and other projects in Germany.
After the demolition of the ruins in the 1950s, the area was used as a bumper car site and a dumping ground for rubble from the renovation of Kreuzberg.The plans for a memorial site on the former site of the Gestapo goes back to 1978, when Berlin architecture critic Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm was one of the first to note, in essays and surveys, the significance of the former site of the Gestapo ...