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Morehart later sold 86.6 acres of the property, including Murphy Ranch, to the city of Los Angeles in 1972. He donated half and received $478,000 for the other half. Despite being so far from the city, it remains a Los Angeles city park to this day (2024). The Mandeville Canyon fire of 1978 destroyed most of the structures. The large water tank ...
The Thomas Mann House is located in the Riviera neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, a community in the Westside of Los Angeles.During the Nazi era, some German Jews fleeing persecution and the Holocaust found refuge in California, and especially the Pacific Palisades area became a refuge and a center for German Jewish culture, and was home to many artists, writers, and intellectuals, as well as ...
The Berghof, Hitler's home near Berchtesgaden, became part of the Obersalzberg military complex. Other than the Wolfsschanze in East Prussia, Hitler spent more time at the Berghof than anywhere else during World War II. At the beginning of World War II there were no permanent headquarters constructed for the Führer.
10050 Cielo Drive was the street address of a former luxury home in Benedict Canyon, in the west-central part of the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, bordering Beverly Hills, where three members of the Manson Family committed the Tate murders in 1969.
Führer city, status given to five German cities in 1937 for a planned gigantic urban transformation; Führer Headquarters, buildings used as headquarters by Adolf Hitler; Nordstern, a planned new German metropolis in occupied Norway; Pabst Plan, plan to reconstruct Warsaw as a Nazi model city. Germania, the projected renewal of Berlin.
[2] [3] The Reagans then bought the ranch from the Corneliuses for about $527,000 in 1974 (equal to approximately $3,256,000 today [1]) when his second term as governor of California was nearing an end. The estate contains a pond called Lake Lucky, stables and a barn for horses, and a 1,500 ft² (139 m²) house furnished with 1970s-style furniture.
Hitler's Berlin: The Speer Plans for Reshaping the Central City (Illustrated). Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. ISBN 0835716821. Hitler, Adolf (1971). Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0395078013. In Internet Archive (1941 edition by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York). Hitler, Adolf (2000).
[2] [4] The estate became a city park on September 16, 1971, and on April 23, 1976, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The city leased the mansion to the American Film Institute from 1965 to 1982 for $1 per year, hoping the institute would pay for repairs and upkeep.