The Führer's vacation home: where genocide was planned between tea and mountain views.
Adolf Hitler spent over 1,000 days on the Obersalzberg, his mountain holiday refuge near Berchtesgaden. It was there he made his decisions about war and destruction. The producers, through special permits, explore the abandoned concrete tunnels in search of the relics of history of Hitler’s mountain and to tell almost forgotten tales of the people who lived there, high up in the shadow of power.
Direction
Kloft treats ruins as crime scenes with chilling restraint.
Production
Exclusive tunnel access transforms familiar history into physical discovery.
Director
Michael Kloft
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Obersalzberg was bombed specifically because Allied planners believed Hitler would never leave; they wanted to bury him in his own fantasy.
Director Kloft spent years securing permits because Bavarian authorities treat the site as contaminated ground—literally and politically.
DE
