Berghof

The Berghof on the Obersalzberg was originally a modest Swiss-chalet-style country house built in 1916, which Adolf Hitler began acquiring in 1933 and progressively expanded into his primary private residence. Between 1936 and July 1944 it served as a seat of power where Hitler received foreign dignitaries including Neville Chamberlain during the 1938 Munich crisis negotiations, making it a direct site of decisions that shaped World War II. British bombing raids in April 1945 largely destroyed the complex; postwar authorities demolished much of what remained to prevent the site from becoming a shrine. Today only scattered foundation remnants and staircase fragments survive in the alpine forest — a historically charged ruin with no visitor infrastructure, compelling precisely because of its absence of commemoration.