Geoff Walden
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Geoff Walden
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Page Updates
12 February 2008 -- Big update - Added photos to the Berlin pages and Berlin Olympics page; added a new page for the Haus des Deutschen Sports and the Olympic Village; added photos to the Chiemsee page, War Memorials page (Berchtesgaden), Misc. Sites page (Heilbronn Luftschutzturm and Heidelberg), Nürnberg pages (all), Reichsadler page, Würzburg page, Thingplatz page, Berchtesgaden page, Berchtesgaden Misc. Sites page, Berchtesgaden Misc. Sites page (Obersee area and Hintersee area), Gästehaus page, Gutshof/Teehaus page, Bormann and Göring House page, Platterhof page, Bunkers page, Kehlsteinhaus (Eagles Nest) page, SS Kaserne page, Hotel Zum Türken page, Obersalzberg Misc. Buildings page (Jugendheim, Klaushöhe, Buchenhöhe), added a page on the Berchtesgaden/Obersalzberg area flak battery positions. 12 February 2008 -- Added watermarks to my images. I don't like watermarks myself (especially when collections like Corbis watermark images that are in the public domain), but my own photos have been appearing on the internet, on YouTube, and even for sale on eBay, without my consent. 12 April 2007 -- Added the SS Lebensborn Home Steinhöring and the Lohr Forsthaus to the Misc. Sites Part 5 page; added new photos to the Weingut page; added photos to the Berchtesgaden Misc. Buildings page; added photos to the Thingplatz page; added Misc. Sites Part 6 page. 31 March 2007 -- Added three new eagles to the Reichsadler page; added photos to the Dachau page; updated many of the MapQuest map links (to use Google Earth to view these sites, go to the MapQuest map, then enter the coordinates found there in Google Earth). Added a link to a multi-media presentation of some of these sites, from Bob Stell's "WW2 Remembered" page. 16 March 2007 -- Added two new eagles to the Reichsadler page; added photos to the Misc. Sites Part 1 and Part 2 pages; added some more photos of GIs moving through the ruins of Schweinfurt in April 1945, and Nazi buildings in Schweinfurt; added photos to the Obersalzberg Misc. Buildings page (greenhouse, coal bunker, and SS guardhouse). 15 February 2007 -- Added several new eagles to the Reichsadler page. 26 January 2007 -- Note - I have been in the process of moving, which is why there haven't been any page updates lately. But as soon as I have my computer set up at my new place, I have over 300 new photos to add to the page, so updates will be forthcoming. Please note the new e-mail address: gwalden (at) windstream.net. I have added some notes to some of the Obersalzberg and Berchtesgaden sites pages. 31 October 2006 -- Added several new eagles to the Reichsadler page. 28 October 2006 -- Added photos to the Garmisch page; Würzburg page; Misc. Sites Part 5 (Hitler at Walhalla); added a page for Tegernsee. 1 October 2006 -- Added photos to the Reichsadler page; Misc. Sites page; Misc. Sites Part 3 page; Misc. Sites Part 5 page; Thingplatz page; Rottershausen page; Wehrmacht Posts page; added a subpage on the Berchtesgadener Hof hotel. 30 August 2006 -- Large update - added photos to the Munich page (Munich Accords and Hofbräuhaus); Reichsadler page (several entries); War Memorials page; Vienna page (flak towers); Thingplatz page (several entries); Chiemsee page; Ebensee page; Misc. Sites Part 2 (Tondorf); Berchtesgaden/Obersalzberg pages - Berchtesgaden, Misc. Buildings Part 2, Misc. Buildings Part 3, Bunkers; added new Misc. Sites Part 5 page; added a new page for the Vogelsang Order Castle; added a new page for Weimar and Dresden; added a new page for the Prora seaside resort complex. 26 June 2006 -- Added photos to the Misc. Sites pages (Bad Godesberg); Berlin pages (both); Olympics page (1936 Olympics Village). 13 June 2006 -- Added photos to the Wehrmacht Military Posts page (Fulda and Bad Hersfeld); Misc. Sites pages (Bergen and Mindelheim), s.Pz.Jg.Abt. 653 page (bottom); Berghof Visitors page (photo captions and Bernile section); Chiemsee page; Würzburg pages; Thingplatz page. 11 May 2006 -- Added photos to the Bamberg section; Wehrmacht Military Posts (Bamberg and Wildflecken); Misc. Sites Part 4 page; Flossenbürg page. 19 November 2005 -- Added photos and info to the Nazi Eagles page. 7 November 2005 -- Added photos to the Wehrmacht Military Posts page; added a page on Nazi Eagles that remain today on period buildings. 22 October 2005 -- Added photos and info to the Misc. Sites Part 4 page, Wehrmacht Military Posts page, Berlin page (Horst Wessel grave). 18 October 2005 -- Added photos and info to the Thingplatz page; Misc. Sites Part 3 page (Polizei Ski School); Misc. Sites Part 4 page. 1 October 2005 -- Added photos to the Berchtesgaden page and Obersalzberg Gutshof page. Revised previous pages into the Wehrmacht Military Posts subpage. 15 September 2005 -- Added photos to the Obersalzberg Bunker/Tunnel page; Misc. Sites Part 4 page; Nürnberg page (Palace of Justice); Schweinfurt Part 3 page (Spitalsee Bunker interior); added photos and info to the Thingplatz page; added photos and info on the Dachau concentration camp and Flossenbürg concentration camp pages. 21 August 2005 -- Added photo of British Faschists at the Cenotaph memorial in London; added sites to the Misc. Sites Part 4 page; added photos and info to the Thingplatz page. 28 May 2005 -- Added photos and info to the following Berchtesgaden/Obersalzberg pages: Berchtesgaden (Duke and Duchess of Windsor at the Bahnhof), Other Misc. Buildings (Eckart Krankenhaus), Bunkers (Weinfeld and Berghof Stollen); added a photo and info to the Thingplatz page (Jülich); added photos and info to the page on Hitler's visits to Czechoslovakia; added photos to all three Nürnberg pages; added a site to the Misc. Sites Part 4 page (Münchberg). 15 May 2005 -- Added photos to the Misc. Sites page (Holledau Bridge), Misc. Sites Part 2 page (tank in Gallneukirchen, Austria), and the Austria page (new photos of Hitler's early homes). Added Misc. Sites Part 4 page, with photos of destroyed bunkers. 29 April 2005 -- Added photos to the Platterhof page (camouflage netting) and the Misc. Sites page (Winkelturm in Kaiserslautern). 20 April 2005 -- Added photos to the Misc. Sites Part 1 page (Heidelberg Thingstätte), Misc. Sites Part 3 page (Oberwildflecken MUNA bunkers) and the Schweinfurt Part 3 page (1944 cemetery ceremony). 17 April 2005 -- Added photos to the Misc. Sites Part 3 page (Neustadt an der Aisch, Fladungen RAD Camp, Gut Streicher), Main-Spessart page (Hesselbach), Thingplatz page (Borna), War Memorials page (Cadolzburg), and the Cold War Sites page (Fladungen). Many of the MapQuest® map links have been updated to point directly to the sites (instead of just the general location), via map coordinates. 27 March 2005 -- Added photos to the Würzburg page. 23 March 2005 -- Added photos of bombing damage on the Schweinfurt page; and the War Memorials page (Grettstadt and Oberspiesheim). 18 March 2005 -- Added photos to both Würzburg pages, Rottershausen MUNA page, Schweinfurt page (Kaserne buildings), and Chiemsee page. 12 March 2005 -- Added several photos to all three of the Nürnberg pages; the Misc. Sites page (Heidelberg Thingplatz); Schweinfurt page (flak batteries); U.S. Army Posts (Chiemsee); Nordhausen. 20 February 2005 -- Added photos to the Misc. Sites Part 1 page (Lambacher Hof), War Memorials page (Kronach). 13 February 2005 -- Added photos to the Misc. Sites Part 3 page (Coburg, Oberwildflecken). 31 January 2005 -- Added photos to the Misc. Sites Part 1 page (Panther tank in Bamberg) and Misc. Sites Part 3 page (Giessen, Aschaffenburg). 24 January 2005 -- Added a page on the capture of German Gen. Tolsdorff by the 101st Airborne Div. near Berchtesgaden; added a guide to Eva Braun's movies in the National Archives. 17 January 2005 -- Added photos to the Misc. Sites page (Heidelberg Thingstätte), Misc. Sites Part 3 page, Thingplatz page (Passau). 12 January 2005 -- Added an updated page on the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. 7 January 2005 -- Added photos to Misc. Sites Part 1 (Mangfall Bridge) and Misc. Sites Part 3 (Ziegenberg/Wiesental and Windecken). 30 December 2004 -- Added photos to the following pages - Haus Wachenfeld, Berghof, Berghof Visitors, Platterhof, SS Barracks, Misc. Buildings, Garmisch; added a link to an interesting Ukrainian website on the Links page. 24 August 2004 -- Added photos to the following Obersalzberg pages: Kehlsteinhaus (Eagles Nest), Platterhof. 19 August 2004 -- Added Part 3 to the Misc. Sites page; added photos to the Berghof Visitors page (showing Traudl Junge at the Berghof), Misc. Sites page, Schweinfurt page, and War Memorials page. 14 August 2004 -- Added photos and info to the Misc. Sites page and the U.S. Army Posts page. 8 August 2004 -- Added photos and info to the Misc. Sites and U.S. Army Posts pages, and the following Berchtesgaden/Obersalzberg pages - main page, SS Kaserne, Misc. Buildings Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, Tunnels/Bunkers. 5 August 2004 -- Added photos to the Thingplatz and Misc. Sites pages. 26 July 2004 -- Added photos and info to the Obersalzberg Misc. Buildings and Tunnel/Bunker pages. 7 July 2004 -- Added photos and info to the U.S. Army Posts and Schweinfurt pages. 11 June 2004 -- Added photos to the Thingplatz page and the Misc. Sites page. 30 May 2004 -- Added several new photos and additional info to the Berchtesgaden main page, Berchtesgaden Miscellaneous Buildings page, and the following Obersalzberg pages - Platterhof, Göring's House, Tea House, Hotel Zum Türken, Misc. Buildings (also Part 2), bunker/tunnel systems, SS Kaserne, Berghof Visitors; also the Misc. Sites page, Heidelberg Thingplatz page, War Memorials page, Thingplatz page, Nordhausen page, Würzburg page. 1 May 2004 -- Added photos to the War Memorials page and the Misc. Sites pages (Part 1 and Part 2). 25 April 2004 -- Added photos to the Schweinfurt pages. 22 April 2004 -- Added photos to the Misc. Sites pages (Bamberg and Bayreuth), and the Nürnberg pages. 11 April 2004 -- Added a biography of Hitler's adjutant Otto Günsche; added photos to Miscellaneous Sites Part 2 (Hirschbachtal Stadium model site), Hitler in Czechoslovakia, and all three Nürnberg pages. 7 April 2004 -- Added photos to the page on the end of the war in the Main-Spessart region; added photos and info to the Thingplatz page. 28 March 2004 -- Added photos and revised information on the REIMAHG Me 262 aircraft production site, and to the Jonastal page. 20 March 2004 -- Added photos to the War Memorials page; added another page of Miscellaneous sites, with photos of a Luftwaffe radar site, the Doggerwerk underground factory site, and the full-scale model for the Nürnberg Deutsche Stadion. 13 March 2004 -- Added photos to the page on the end of the war in the Main-Spessart region; added photos and info to the Thingplatz page. 6 March 2004 -- Added photos to the Thingplatz page. 1 March 2004 -- The online site has been reconfigured per the note on the Homepage. Click here to see how to order a CD-ROM publication containing this entire site. 27 February 2004 -- Added photos to the War Memorials page, and the Schweinfurt pages (all 4 parts). 13 February 2004 -- Several visitors have asked for maps of these sites. Rather than upload actual maps (which must be large, and so take up bandwidth, to show any detail), I have added links to MapQuest® maps for most of the sites. You can zoom in and out on these maps, to see the overall site locations in Greater Germany (as it was in 1939-45), and also some finer details. 4 February 2004 -- Added photos to the page on the Platterhof hotel and the Bormann and Göring houses on the Obersalzberg; added photos of the Bad Windsheim site to the Thingplatz page and the Memorials page; added photos of air raid shelter bunkers to the Schweinfurt page. 26 January 2004 -- Added a page on a Munitions Depot site at Rottershausen, near Schweinfurt. 14 September 2003 -- Added works to the Haus der Deutschen Kunst Military art and Sculptures pages. 9 March 2003 -- Added miscellaneous photos to Berchtesgaden pages (Misc. Buildings (Parts 1 and 2), Göring's house). 8 February 2003 -- Added photos to the following pages: Haus der Deutschen Kunst (Part 3), Vienna (flak towers), War Memorials page, Munich, Mauthausen. 1 January 2003 -- Added photos to the following pages: Berchtesgaden, Munich. 17 November 2002 -- Added photos to U.S. Army Posts (Illesheim), Misc. Sites (Schwetzingen, Wasserkuppe), Flossenbürg concentration camp, Obersalzberg Misc. Buildings (Kindergarten), Misc. Buildings Part 2, Bormann's House, Platterhof, SS Barracks, Haus der Deutschen Kunst (Parts 1 and 4). 27 October 2002 -- Added photos to Würzburg, Schweinfurt (Part 4), Thingplatz, Berlin (Part 2), Munich, Nürnberg (Part 2), Miscellaneous Sites (Baldham), Obersalzberg, Berghof Visitors, Platterhof, Bunkers. 15 October 2002 -- Added photos to Berchtesgaden, Obersalzberg, Platterhof, Gästehaus, SS Barracks, Misc. Buildings, German Memorials, Kunsthaus Part 4. 4 October 2002 -- Moved the page to www.thirdreichruins.com. 3 October 2002 -- Added a page on various Thingplatz sites. 30 June 2002 -- Added text notes and corrections to the page on the end of the war in the Main-Spessart region (see sections on fighting in Gemünden and Greßthal); added an update to the "Lost Sites" page (unk17); added photos of the Army blowing up the swastika on the Zeppelintribüne to the Nürnberg Part 2 page; added photos of an Allied bombing attack to the Buchenwald page; added photos and text to all Schweinfurt pages, and the U.S. Army Posts page; added photos to the following Berchtesgaden/Obersalzberg pages: Berchtesgaden, Obersalzberg, Kampfhäusl, Platterhof, Gutshof, SS Barracks, Misc. Buildings, Berghof Visitors. 16 June 2002 -- Added Note about current status of the Berchtesgadener Hof hotel, and update to Obersalzberg current info. Added photos to Nürnberg Part 2 (Zeppelinfeld in 1945), Obersalzberg Misc. Buildings (Kindergarten in 1945), Berghof (1945 ruins photo), Haus der Deutschen Kunst (Part 4). 8 May 2002 -- Added photos from the end of the war to Nürnberg (Parts 1 and 2); added more artworks to Haus der Deutschen Kunst (Part 4); added information to the Berghof Visitors page. Added some updated information to both Obersalzberg Miscellaneous Buildings pages (current status of the former Speer studio and Stanggass Reichskanzlei buildings), and to the Main-Spessart page (info on the actions of the 14th Armored Division). 30 March 2002 -- Added a page of photos identifying visitors to the Berghof, including corrected identifications of several photos that are often misidentified in post-war books. Added photos from the end of the war to Schweinfurt Parts 1-4 and Würzburg Part 2; added photos to Misc. Sites (Lambach); Berchtesgaden, Obersalzberg (map with guide to the main Obersalzberg sites, plus aerial photos; also Haus Wachenfeld, Berghof, SS Kaserne, and Misc. Bldgs. Part 2); Haus der Deutschen Kunst (all parts). 17 February 2002 -- Added photos to the following pages: Ebensee (Anlage A), Mühldorf, U.S. Army Posts (Bad Tölz), Nürnberg (Parts 2 and 3). 7 February 2002 -- Added a searchable Table of Contents page, to search the entire site by keyword; added subpage on Gusen/Bergkristall to the Mauthausen page; added pages for Vienna (Hitler visit), Mühldorf (Project Weingut), and Würzburg; added photos to the following pages: Berlin, Lichterfelde, Hitler's Czechoslovakia visits, Schweinfurt Part 4. 25 November 2001 -- Added photos of tunnels beneath Obersalzberg SS Barracks and Hotel Zum Türken; added photos to following Obersalzberg pages - Teehaus, Platterhof, Haus Wachenfeld, Berghof, Misc. Buildings (Antenberg site), Misc. Area Buildings (Rossfeld AA site); added photos to Schweinfurt (Part 4), U.S. Army Posts, Haus der Deutschen Kunst (all parts); added photos of US and USSR border guard posts to Cold War Sites. Moved the page to Simonides.org. 26 August 2001 -- Added photos to Schweinfurt (all pages), Miscellaneous Sites (Lambach, Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Bamberg, Rhein-Main, Ochsenfurt, Baldham), end of the war in the Main-Spessart, Hitler in Austria, Nürnberg (Part 3), Ebensee tunnel system, U.S. Army Posts (Parts 1 and 2); moved the War Memorials to a separate page. 11 June 2001 -- Added an information update on the status of current and planned changes to the Obersalzberg sites. Updated some identifications on the Lost Sites page. 8 May 2001 -- Added photos to Berlin Part 2 (locations of deaths and burials of Hitler and Bormann, and grave of Horst Wessel) and Haus der Deutschen Kunst, Part 4. 23 March 2001 -- Added photos to the following pages: Haus der Deutschen Kunst (Parts 2, 3, 4 and 5), Schweinfurt pages, Nürnberg (Part 2), Hitler Visits Austria and Czechoslovakia, Buchenwald, U.S. Army Posts (Part 3 - Bad Kissingen), Miscellaneous Sites (added a section on the end of the war in the Main-Spessart region); updated several identifications on the Lost Sites page. 25 February 2001 -- Added photos to the following pages: Obersalzberg (Kehlsteinhaus, Platterhof, Göring's house, SS Barracks, Haus Wachenfeld and Berghof pages), Haus der Deutschen Kunst (Parts 4 and 5), Nürnberg (Parts 1 and 3), Hitler Visits Czechoslovakia, Schweinfurt (Part 4 - Sachs Stadion), U.S.Army Posts (Part 2 - Grafenwöhr), Miscellaneous sites (Hitler at the Hotel Bube, war memorials). 4 February 2001 -- Added Part 3 to the U.S. Army Posts pages, for Manteuffel Kaserne in Bad Kissingen. Updated the Lost Sites page. Added more period photos of Braunau and Fischlham to the page "Adolf Hitler Visits Austria." Added more artwork photos to all of the Haus der Deutschen Kunst pages. 21 January 2001 -- Added two new pages of photos of Hitler's home on the Obersalzberg - Haus Wachenfeld and the Berghof. Added the Würzburg military hospital to the U.S. Army Posts page, and split the page into two parts, for easier loading. 13 January 2001 -- Added the site to the German/American Webring and the WWII German Military Center. Added new photos on the Nürnberg (Kongreßhalle), Obersalzberg (Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus), Mauthausen, Ebensee (Anlage A tunnel now), and Haus der Deutschen Kunst (period color photos from 1937) pages. 9 January 2001 -- Added new links to border sites on the Cold War Sites page. 7 January 2001 -- Added updated identifications to the Lost Sites page. 6 January 2001 -- Added updated information and photos to the Obersalzberg page and various sub-pages (Bibliography, Hotel Zum Türken), U.S. Army Posts page (Chiemsee), and the Haus der Deutschen Kunst page, Part 5 ("Die Schauende"), HDK Part 3 (military themes), HDK Part 4. 17 December 2000 -- Added new photos on several pages - Berlin (Lichterfelde Barracks), Mauthausen, Ebensee (and new links on the latter two pages), and added a section on the Nazis in Prague, March 1939. 5 December 2000 -- Added links on several pages - Berchtesgaden, Obersalzberg/Gaestehaus, Schweinfurt, Berlin Pt. 2, Flossenbürg, Mittelwerk/Dora, Haus der Deutschen Kunst (Munich). 29 November 2000 -- Added pages on Adolf Hitler's visits to Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939; added pages for the Mauthausen and Ebensee concentration camp sites in Austria. 5 November 2000 -- Added new photos to several pages - Nürnberg (Zeppelintribüne), Haus der Deutschen Kunst (all pages - also rearranged the pages), Cold War sites (Checkpoint Charlie). 16 October 2000 -- Added a page on the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp site. 15 October 2000 -- Major update, with many new photos added, to the following pages - Berchtesgaden (also Kehlsteinhaus, Bormann/Göring, SS Barracks, and Misc. Buildings pages), Berlin, Nürnberg (all pages), Haus der Deutschen Kunst (all pages), U.S. Army Posts, Miscellaneous Sites (added photos of Hitler's birth house in Austria); moved the Cold War sites to a separate page. 17 September 2000 -- Added several new photos to the Haus der Deutschen Kunst page (Munich). 11 September 2000 -- New photos added to the Schweinfurt Part 2 and Part 4 pages. 6 September 2000 -- Added several items to the Haus der Deutschen Kunst page. 4 September 2000 -- Added a new page on the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich. 3 September 2000 -- Added a new page on Nordhausen/Mittelwerk/Dora. Added this Updates page. Added new photos to the Buchenwald, Schweinfurt, and Miscellaneous Sites (OP Alpha) pages. 30 August 2000 -- Added new pages on the underground sites in Thüringen - the REIMAHG Me 262 production site and the Project "Siegfried" site in the Jonastal. Submitted the site to the World War 2 Webring. 26 August 2000 -- Added the "Lost Sites" page. Added new photos to the Berlin, Miscellaneous Sites, and Schweinfurt pages. Added several new photos to the Buchenwald page. 16 August 2000 -- Added new "now" views to the Schweinfurt pages and new photos to the Nürnberg pages. 5 August 2000 -- Added a page on the end of the war for s.PzJr.Abt. 653. 20 July 2000 -- "Third Reich in Ruins" page initially uploaded.
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Third Reich in Ruins, http://www.thirdreichruins.com/ All contents copyright © 2000-2008, Geoffrey R. Walden; all rights reserved. All photos taken by or from the collection of Geoffrey R. Walden, except where specifically noted. Please respect my property rights, and the rights of others who have graciously allowed me to use their photos on this page, and do not copy these photos or reproduce them in any other way. This page is intended for historical
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