“EAGLE’S Nest before 1945 / Kehlsteinhaus vor 1945” – The Eagle’s Nest before 1945 – a photo folder containing 12 black-and-white photographs, showing interior and exterior views of Adolf Hitler’s residence at the summit of the Kehlstein mountain in the Bavarian Alps. Published postwar.
The Eagle’s Nest (Kehlsteinhaus) was a lavish structure built atop Mount Kehlstein near Berchtesgaden, Germany, as part of the Obersalzberg complex used by the leadership of the Third Reich. The building was inaugurated in 1938 as a birthday gift to Adolf Hitler on the occasion of his 50th birthday, initiated by Martin Bormann. The site was not used for strategic decision-making but rather served as a private retreat and informal meeting place for diplomatic guests and high-ranking Nazi Party officials. After the war, the Eagle’s Nest became a symbol of evil – the idyllic mountaintop retreat from which Hitler is associated with planning the annihilation of European Jewry.
Photographs include: the Führer’s room, dining room, kitchen, the round hall, conference hall, bronze lions used as door handles at the tunnel gate, the 126-meter-high elevator shaft, meeting room, the 130-meter-long Kehlstein tunnel, the underground power station, the underground tunnel, and the guest room paneled with pine wood.
Folder and photographs: 9×14 cm. Very good condition.
