You'd think from the reaction that Hitler and his gang didn't actually exist in the world. Poking around the other main Nazi site (the bunker, Nuremberg, the chancellery), it would seem that most have either been levelled and turned into parks, or are still standing, unfinished and unused. So about all you can accuse them of is reusing a scenic location.

That said, I know a fellow who lives in that area, and I assure you he is VERY far from that outlook. Coming from Alberta you rightly warned of stupid stereotypes about regions and jurisdictions...

But still. They think that making it expensive will keep the neo-Nazis out! Yeee!

Friday afternoon seems to be my time for googling for interesting images, and in keeping with that tradition (now at least one week old) I have stumbled upon this extraordinary resource. It is part of a larger site called The Third Reich in Ruins, much of which is also interesting, but the photo galleries of all the complexes and buildings on the Obersalzberg are the most rich and disturbing.

If you run through all the links at the top of the page, you will gain a good grasp of what was where, what remains, and how things are being used now -- the plans for the new hotel are even included somewhere, although that seems a sad violation of the landscape.

The period photos, especially of Eva Braun, her sister/s, and her friends, left me feeling deeply sad. The perverse domesticity of the powerful -- I barely know how to think of it.