..over the years….I have made maybe half a dozen trips to the site of Hitlers House…..the Berghof…..last time I was there…..the garage was the only part of the house still standing……a close friend of mine was over there once….went into the garage…noticed an opening on the top left corner of the wall……approx…..3'X4'……he and couple friends came back late at nite….climbed thru the opening…and found 8 rooms still intact in the basement……of course they had all been looted….but he gave me a couple of photos showing them in there…….now of course…everything is gone…..the garage remains have been bulldozed…as well as the Hotel General Walker……in place stands a Holocaust Museum………...///////...be that as it may…..i did manage to bring back 6 bricks out of the foundation of the Berghof…(bookends in my Library) and the Iron Metal cutoff valve to the plumbing system….(they were digging up part of the trail from the General Walker down to the Berghof site……..when I went thru Security in Munich airport….the Polizei took me in the back room and questioned me in regards to the bricks……….needless to say…..I spun a long story about being employed with a brick company here in my home town…and I got the bricks from a building being built…and they were to be put on display in our showroom at the office….
don't think they really believed me 100% but I speak a little German…..and my Great Grandfather and most of my Family are from the Rheinland Pfalz area…….add to that I showed them a photo of my distant cousin that was in the 3rd Panzer Regiment…Won the Ritterkreuz…..so we parted friends………Every Trip is an Adventure…