Recently I ran across a photo set of the Obersalzberg tunnels from the 1950s. I've seen other such sets, but this set has views I hadn't seen before. This one is labeled "Göring's wine cellar." This would certainly support all the May 1945 tales of the GIs liberating wine collections found in the tunnels.
- photo by Zeitz
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This is a particularly valuable view, showing that there was indeed a wooden staircase in the unfinished elevator shaft at one end of the Platterhof/Gästehaus tunnel. (see also here, about 16 rows down -
http://thirdreichruins.com/bunkers.htm).
- photo by Zeitz
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The women in this photo look to be the same as those in the well-known image below. Frau Ingrid Scharfenberg had an original print of the photo below in her Archiv, and she told me that she took the photo, which shows her mother Therese Partner and her sister. I have never known *where* in the tunnel system this photo was taken, but they may be at the bottom of the wooden staircase, which would place them in the unfinished SS Stollen.
- photo by Zeitz
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Geoff
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"Hitler's Berchtesgaden," 160 page detailed and comprehensive guide to Third Reich sites in Berchtesgaden and on the Obersalzberg.
https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Berchtes ... chtesgaden