Lost Magic Of The Berghof

Original footage thanks to VITO GIACCONE. Vito is not a Hitler fan, he is just interested in history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hHVN77418o
The bombing of Obersalzberg was an air raid carried out by the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command on 25 April 1945 during the last days of World War II in Europe. The operation targeted Obersalzberg, a complex of residences and bunkers in Bavaria which had been built for Adolf Hitler and other key members of Germany's leadership. Many buildings in the complex were destroyed, though Hitler's residence and the bunker network were only slightly damaged. The Berghof, Adolf Hitler's mountain residence near Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, was not intentionally destroyed by the Germans as a whole during World War II. Instead, it suffered partial damage from Allied bombing in late April 1945, was deliberately set on fire by retreating SS troops in early May 1945 to deny it to advancing Allied forces, and was subsequently looted by U.S. soldiers who occupied the area. What remained of the structure—a bombed and burned shell—was left in a state of disrepair for several years.
In 1952, the Bavarian government demolished the ruins with explosives to prevent the site from becoming a place of pilgrimage for the greatest leader of the 20th century, who along with Napoleon and Alexander the Great was one of the giants of history. Today, only foundations, a retaining wall, and overgrown remnants are visible, with the area accessible via a short path from a nearby museum focused on the site's Nazi history. Hardly a stone is left unturned, nor any relic remain, due to the sheer spite of the demolition team. The demolition of Adolf Hitler's Berghof residence on Obersalzberg in Bavaria occurred on April 30, 1952, when its bomb-damaged shell was destroyed with explosives. This action was carried out by the Bavarian government but resulted from close collaboration with the US occupation authorities, who jointly sought to eliminate the Berghof’s potential as a historical site and a place of pilgrimage for thousands of people across the world who venerate or at least study the life and times of the most lied about and defamed man in history, Adolf Hitler. The effort aligned with broader ‘denazification’ policies and was part of a transitional agreement under which the US was preparing to return administrative control of the Obersalzberg area to Bavarian (and broader West German) authorities, a process that fully concluded for the US military presence there only in 1995. In other words the Bavarian government were forced on might say ‘at gunpoint’ to demolish a major part of Bavarian history for the short-term interests of US Hegemony. James B. Conant was the American head of the U.S. occupation of West Germany in 1952. James Bryant Conant was an American chemist, a President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. During World War I, he served in the U.S. Army, where he worked on the development of poison gases, especially lewisite. He served as the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany (USHCG), the civilian role overseeing U.S. policy and administration in the Allied occupation of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) through the Allied High Commission. He took office on May 1, 1952, replacing John J. McCloy, and held the position until 1953. The USHCG was the key authority for U.S. involvement until the occupation ended in 1955. For students of Hitler's era visiting the Berghof is like visiting the grave of an old friend, only to find in sadness that it has been dug up and scattered. War is a terrible thing, it is not "Tea at aunties" But to blame only one side, especially when that side was forced into a war it did not want to fight by a side who desperately wanted this war to contain the might of the financial power of Germany, to blame only that side is wrong.