How Hitler's Luxurious Residence Got Built | Hitler: Rise and Fall

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Hitler took on a huge task of rebuilding his residence in order to impress other leaders and express his inner artistic desires.
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[@opponenspericulo]

Having visited the Eagles nest & Berchtesgaden several times, I can say most people would have to agree these are some of the most beautiful & awe-inspiring surroundings on the planet.

[@miansaadali]

that house should not be demolished its art piece

[@Hopscotchlemonadespritz]

I certainly like it, too, as a piece of chalet architecture. The view out of that massive window was astonishing. Perhaps fitting though, that it was damaged by the Allies late in the war then demolished shortly thereafter.

[@flaminglaughter]

@@Hopscotchlemonadespritz If they kept the Berghof people would be there trying to revive the movement. You need to see the Eagles Nest which was almost destroyed too.

[@flaminglaughter]

@Real Aiglon Wrong. It’s there and it has a restaurant.

[@miansaadali]

@Real Aiglon yes but i like it design specially window shown

[@halibut1249]

@@flaminglaughter - everybody says that, it's simply not true. There are plenty of Nazi remnants and symbols that haven't revived or martyred Nazi ideology.

[@merrelise33]

I hate the Berghof doesn't exist today. I would have loved to visit it!

[@zillsburyy1]

go see the eagles nest my son

[@tommyboy1435]

Hitlers attention to quality was extraordinary

[@beachbum4691]

The window in the great reception Hall at the Berghoff was about 14 feet high by 24 feet wide comprising ten panels each of nine thick panes, there are images of American soldiers standing on the sill after it was bombed and it is possible using Photoshop to get a pretty accurate size, taking the soldiers to be 6 feet including their hats and boots. I have found all sorts of specs for the Berghoff but none showing the height and width of that window. (built strong for a windy hillside location; the counterweights for the window must have been enormous)

[@Godzzbinzz]

The Berghof wasn’t luxurious. It was purposely made non luxurious.

[@ashutoshpai1383]

Why?

[@Godzzbinzz]

@@ashutoshpai1383 He was a socialist. He wasn't doing it for himself contrary to popular belief. He was practically the emperor of Europe he could of had a giant golden Palace if he wanted yet he asked for a traditional bavarian farm house to be built.

[@halibut1249]

@@ashutoshpai1383 - read some of the interviews. Hitler was a simple man in his dress and furnishings, he did not want to dress or live better than German military who had to get by with very little fighting the war.

[@MontyCantsin5]

@@Godzzbinzz: ''He (Hitler) was a socialist'' At worst, that's simply an outright lie, at best, a gross simplification of the policies expounded by the Nazi Party. What is clear, however, is that Hitler despised social democratic means of governance.

[@dannybeun948]

Luxery by simplicity at our opinion 👌

[@Powerbandm]

Really well done video!

[@psbrayshaw]

Just a shame the old footage you used isn't of the Berghof being built. Did nobody do their due diligence?

[@dwells37]

The Berghof was built in 1916. Hitler didn't aquire it until 1933. Why would there be footage of it being built? Didn't you do your due diligence before asking that question?

[@psbrayshaw]

@@dwells37 the berghof wasn't built in 1916. Haus Wachenfeld was. Do your due diligence on your message replies before replying in future.

[@dwells37]

@@psbrayshaw that is the same place.

[@psbrayshaw]

@@dwells37 I know!

[@nikaluss5946]

If I ever win the lottery big, I’m building a house on the footprint of the berghof

[@souvikdas5662]

(+_+) Then you probably need someone who is as skilled and creative as Albert Speer.

[@nikaluss5946]

@@souvikdas5662 I can only dream

[@marcrigor6423]

The Berghof copy or another house entirely?

[@nikaluss5946]

@@marcrigor6423 A different house, just on the same location/footprint

[@marcrigor6423]

@@nikaluss5946 might need that picture window, though. ;)

[@johnharpdalton7766]

If only AH had remained architect and interior designer, content with good views...

[@richardmcleod5967]

A shame it was torn down as well as the Tea House, as they could have been saved as Hitler was in Berlin!

[@SUNFlower-tt9zv]

Hell to so isn't who did it...

[@dingecibbs]

That's not the Berghof @ 0:08, it looks like the Platterhof hotel.

[@crafter170]

Later on the RAF would transform it again .....

[@mitchrichards1532]

I took a break from Oktoberfest this year, visited the mountain and site for the views before heading to Salzburg for dinner. The highlight was the views, back up by peeing on what was left of Addi's house. 🤣

[@valerietaylor9615]

Good for you! 😂

[@carolinecarey4727]

You're my kind of traveler.😂

[@arturokarl8022]

I’m trying to watch this can’t find it ?

[@zillsburyy1]

the tea house should have been allowed to stay

[@allaboutyeshua2606]

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16 verse 18

[@SKF358]

This is a genius video. Wunderbar.

[@elvispaul287]

Who is this interior designer lady Trost?

[@marcrigor6423]

3:06 in the hat... some say that's the current queen of England. She was 19 at the end of WW2. Possible. ;)

[@souvikdas5662]

Queen Elizabeth really (^^)

[@aydankhaliq2967]

She probably would've been the oldest person in the room.

[@TheTrueOnyxRose]

She’s dead now so…

[@basedlawyer5147]

Does anyone have the dimensions of that picture window?

[@opponenspericulo]

If you mean the one up in the Eagles Nest, those are huge. I've been there several times, I'm 1,84m and they are quite a bit higher than me. So, I'd say...2,30-2,50m.

[@basedlawyer5147]

@@opponenspericulo yes the huge one. So impressive. I have this idea that if I build a house and have the funds, I want a window just like that.

[@beachbum4691]

The window in the great reception Hall at the Berghoff was about 14 feet high by 24 feet wide comprising ten panels each of nine thick panes, there are images of American soldiers standing on the sill after it was bombed and it is possible using Photoshop to get a pretty accurate size, taking the soldiers to be 6 feet including their hats and boots. I have found all sorts of specs for the Berghoff but none showing the height and width of that window. (built strong for a windy hillside location the counterweights for the window must have been enormous)

[@basedlawyer5147]

@@beachbum4691 thanks brother. Amazing work. Immy dream home will have one of these giant windows.

[@beachbum4691]

@@basedlawyer5147 Pocket doors and pocket windows were complex constructions but more common in the 1930s than in the austerity the decades that followed, America has any number of pocket doors. in the later 1940s my father-in-law was second in charge of a U-boat base at a place called Split an island on the west coast of Germany, being coastal Goring had a summer retreat there occupied by the then commanding officer; and there was a guest-house previously occupied by Goering's mistress which my father-in-law later occupied. it to had smaller pocket windows similar to the Berghof looking onto the ocean. It also had a bathroom with tiles that were black and red, being Nazi party colours, but historically Prussian colours giving the German army a sense of continuity. the largest example of this sort of work that I'm aware of is at the Victor Emmanuel II Monument in Rome again finished in the 30s 1935: being the principal cast-iron railing at the bottom of the lowest steps: it even has a gate in it, and the whole thing disappears into the ground, it is about 130 feet long, very much the stuff of it's age., Best wishes John Perth Australia

[@wallflower1852]

The Americans should not have bombed it. It could have been a museum on WWII.

[@andycap6786]

Pretty certain it was the RAF that dropped two bombs on it in 1945. It was still (mainly) in tact when the Americans arrived.

[@wallflower1852]

@@andycap6786 To be honest, i didn't know this but thank you sharing. But still, its really sad that much of Nazi architecture was destroyed. But for the record, I'm not a neo-Nazi or a Nazi sympathizer. Their architecture was just amazing in its own right.

[@SUNFlower-tt9zv]

War means hell, War doesn't see peace. It destroyed everything which comes it's way

[@user-st4gq2ox8m]

Yes British" Bomber Harris" two weeks before the German Surrender...A damn shame.....@@andycap6786

[@PAC-tn3wm]

GUTES VIDEO GRUSS VON MIR

[@Jeremy-Two]

Cool.

[@ANURAGPARIHARVLOGS]

History may b good or bad...But it must be preserved !!!!

[@hinaynihorvath3926]

mountains of tortured burned corpses was his form of art 😱

[@miamicool666]

A synagogue should have been built instead.

[@renatmatmatias3386]

Esses povo so esquece uma coisa nada e eterno tudo passa nessa vida estao todos mortos

[@astinoswarburton1852]

that Jaskot is a grotesque Jew

[@BOEHHO89]

The woman did a good job .

[@jarrodyuki7081]

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[@pyromania1018]

333.33 million pounds would equal roughly $433 million.

[@Powerbandm]

That number is probably referring to the entire Obersalzberg as opposed to just the Berghof. Based on my Minecraft replica of the Berghof, i estimate the building was 30,000 sqft plus or minus a little bit. With that being said 333 million sounds way to high. Honestly most 100 million plus dollar homes in Beverly Hills dont go over 100 million. I would totally believe 33 million for the Berghof, that seems more reasonable. But what do i know lol!

[@kublakhan1334]

Who paid for this ?

[@maarten9272]

The state I presume.

[@MontyCantsin5]

@Mickey Zombish: That's not quite true. Hitler did initially buy Haus Wachenfeld with revenue earned from sales of Mein Kampf, but the subsequent redesign and expansion of the building and the area around the property was in part state funded (wealthy party donors, etc). See Ian Kershaw's biography on Hitler for more information about this.

[@souvikdas5662]

@@MontyCantsin5 absolutely correct he bought it from his own earnings.

[@RajuYadav-mw3fg]

Hindi MA bolo

[@SKF358]

Gerdy!