Just discovered this amazing film. My father was a 24 year old medic who toured the facility. I can see him in my mind walking around the rooms. He passed away five years ago at 93. I still have the scrapbook his then girlfriend (later his wife and my mother) kept of his assignments. Thanks for the memory!

Amazing video.thanks for that and I think I caught a glimpse of major winters

Wonderful footage, wish i couldve seen and explore all this

Nice documentary!

Great documentary. Thanks

Had several trips here. The best was with snow on the ground. So beautiful and quiet then.

Awesome. Any more in depth stuff like this

Hvala, na extra, filmu!! Tako I nastavite 👏👏🍀

Shout out to Band of Brothers episode 10 Points

I was struck by the many young men in the town in civilian dress and wondered how long before they had discarded (hidden?) their uniforms. Surely they would have been in one branch of the military or another, especially since at the end, the regime was "recruiting" children and old men.

At 16:21 I believe I see Major Richard Winters on the right of the screen! He has a gold leaf cluster and I am sure I recognize him from the many pictures I've seen of him over the years!

Interesting watch thank you. I visited the area in October 2018 and visited the Documentation Centre, Berghof site, Hotel Zum Turken and the Mooslahnerkopf Teehaus site.Also found the coke store which you may know about.The whole area is stunningly beautiful and it's easy to see why anyone would pick this location .

Outstanding!

Demolished history is secondary criminal!

is there by chance a version of this with out all the loud back ground music it looks to be very interesting but i made it 11 min in and had to stop the music is to loud thanks

Great film, but the band music throughout got old fast. "Stereo" : )

My cousin was in airborne during the Gulf War those guys are nothing to mess with they’re all business he was a Medic he told me he had well over 1200 jumps under his belt that’s a lot of jumps so on top of being a skydiver he was a medic and a soldier so yeah he was a good asset for them he told me about how it was raining oil on them for days he has golf war syndrome now he’s sick with over 20 different diseases some of them they don’t even know what they are so he’s been pretty sick often on I couldn’t imagine having to walk around in the desert with oil raining on you for days on end that’s got to be disgusting makes me wanna shower just thinking about it right now freedom isn’t free my one uncle that was drafted during Vietnam was shipped over there and how he got his Purple Heart is nothing but heroic he saved his whole platoon from an ambush he has literally over 30 confirmed kills from that one 22 hour long battle alone The fucked up thing about it is that he didn’t even start getting disability payments until the year 2000 he got injured in 1969 and came back home it took them 31 years to finally pay for his disability he got his Purple Heart in the mail out of my five uncles and my dad four of them had joined the military my one uncle that got drafted just so happens to be the only one that went to Vietnam all the other ones were stationed out of country he’s the only one that gets drafted and the only one that gets extremely wounded he got shot in the head outside of his physical limitations he’s now schizophrenic and has PTSD it’s really sad how our government treats these soldiers they use them up for everything they need then they spit them up and don’t give them anything there are so many suicides from X soldiers it’s not even funny they’re getting nowhere near the help that they need when they come back they are used up and forgotten it’s absolutely disgusting just look at how our military used our soldiers as guinea pigs during nuclear bomb testings it’s absolutely disgusting how they treat their own soldiers the United States government isn’t much better than Hitler and the Nazis matter of fact The Nazis got their eugenics ideas from the United States of America Hitler actually praised us because in the United States people were dumping their undesirables in asylums tossing them away like garbage so the United States isn’t much better on top of that they shipped a bunch of the doctors and scientists from Nazi Germany brought them here gave them jobs money and didn’t prosecute them for their crimes against humanity absolutely disgusting and atrocious

Very cool video! I guess my uncle Grady pilfered some of that stuff. He sent my grandma a postcard from that hotel showing her which room he was quartered in.

The US Armed Forces Recreation Center. I great place for a long weekend. They also offer bus tours. Great times. 1973-1976.

The views from the Eagles Nest are wonderful

Factual error made at 13:43 when the 327th was mentioned to be a battalion when it was a regiment. The 327th Glider Infantry Regiment was one of four infantry regiments of the 101st Airborne Division, with the other three regiments being: 501st PIR, 502nd PIR, and 506th PIR.

Great piece of history. Also shows that Americans already were feeling strong and had quickly satisfied senators. Great commentary. Thank you. Subscribed :))

Yes I have one of the painting of the watzmann mountain range.

Wasn't especially difficult. The Berghof had been bombed, and Hitler had no interest in the Eagle's Nest. Only Eva Braun visited it from time to time.

My late uncle Norman attacked this place. When I was a kid I saw a horribly beautiful Swastika tapestry, about 10' by 6', hanging on his amusement room wall. I have checked with historian Mark Felton, who said that it probably wasn't from the Berghaus but rather from a hotel or restaurant in the town. Norman was later made a county judge. I remember my dad saying no one in the family thought he would survive fighting in France. He parachuted in the area behind Omaha beach. Eisenhower had paratroopers attack Berchtesgaden on the assumption it was an important target. It wasn't.

Interesting to see the fireplace mantle of the Kehlstein (Eagle’s Nest) BEFORE every officer of the 101st took a chunk out of it.

I like how the soldiers were carrying around what is equivalent of rpgs at the beginning.

Sound track sooooo nuts

AMAZING

Have seen most of this before but always in German so I’m very happy to now see it in English. Hope to see more in English.

the music in this video is so distracting to the overall enjoyment of watching it.

I just love the way the computer voice is calling kernels generals and lieutenant generals major generals 🤣🤣

Great footage! besides all of his property, Hitler would have freaked driving around in his Benz.

Allies had no information about the eagle's nests purpose ....just the same as hitler then . Have watched lots of documentaries about obersalzburg but this is possibly my favourite one

Excellent video again, those images are so unique they're like a gift to our eyes, thanks. BUT, watching American GIs checking out everything everywhere in the Eagle's Nest to the sound of US marching band music??? He he, I think I skipped that part!

I wish there was a map of where everything was so I could place all the various locations.

the 101st Airborne Division right in the middle of it again.....

Some of the soldiers probably said about the looting "I sacrifice my life for this war and your worried about looting" Please......

Why do i feel uneasy watching this ? Jesus christ the music wft

I would imagine President Truman was one of the first people to see this film.

Great film crap music

Why in the 1900s it looks so old and why are there things on the screen popping up?

actually the 7th infantry regiment 3rd infantry division took the eagle nest before the 506th.

The patriotic music didn't seem to fit after the clip where the generals sent young soldiers kids really to check the last bit was safe on the climb to the buzzards boudoir

The "101 First Airborne"? And sometimes he's Colonel Sink, then General Sink, and then demoted back to Colonel again by the voice-over guy? Just lazy writing, man. Could have been a great piece.

11:49 The guy has a plate in his shirt must not be guarding good enough

You can imagine a nut like Hitler looking out that giant windows at that mountains and thinking yeah I can take the world

The US Seventh Army reached there first. The 101 Airbourne arrived about a day later.

I wonder how many SS were hiding in the tunnel labyrinth

I would love to know the guys names in this film. It would be nice if a historian found out and inserted who they were. Great footage! Love it! AB

The music ruins the video.

I don’t ever need to hear that god-awful music again. Ever again.

29:00 As always, politicians doing what they know better...

I am glad I went there it was a profound experience. And when I watched Band Of Brothers who built a striking set similar to the Eagles nest it was just a weird experience and when I see material like this and know I been there.. All those who died building this place many we will never know their names, OK maybe a few might come forward and name them. I got told off because i think it was the marble fireplace, I moved some stuff because i wanted to see what was written inside the fire itself. From what I can recall it either had two dates when this development was actually handed over to Adolf Hitler and even a small coat of arms of something, they obviously didn't want me to see that. Its a frightening experience, just every kind of feeling wrapped into something that was sinister of everything happening at the time. Real horrors. In all honestly I must thank those that gave their lives building this place just a shame it was not for a better cause as the place no matter how many Nazi emblems you remove or try to erase from this place its the memory of the many millions who died at the hands of this dictator it was built for but hardly ever used it. I never went there to marvel at who once owned this place, and that i am standing on the very ground that Adolph at one time walked. Really I Just don't have a clue why I went there maybe it was curiosity I had the chance so seized upon it so did it. I don't think I was prepared for what was about to hit me. Chilling place especially when not many public around, a very ghostly place. I would not be at all shocked if I found out this place is heavily haunted given the evil history that the Eagles Nest has attached to it. Let me just add that despite the Eagles Nest, Berchtesgaden is an absolute beautiful place and full of history. Unfortunately In life we must learn history which will include many things we do not wish to be reminded of we have no choice but to see the Evil that is still out there and learn from it how we prevent this happening ever again, Unfortunately on a near close scale it has, Cambodia being one such country. History are we not supposed to learn from it, have we learned? Some of us maybe, but not enough........... The Berghof was blown up by the Bavarian government in order to prevent the site from becoming a tourist attraction In yet they leave The Eagles Nest Standing. So what has that become, Is that not a tourist attraction, millions have visited it including little ole me.

Is a forest nowadays the spectacular window gone

On that date I was not yet born as I still I’ll had a little then two months to go..

Damn music.

This could do without the marching band music.

You bet those guys grabbed some nice souvenirs

Looting ?? Yeah, by all the officers and senators and elite victors , , , not much chance of the fighting private, corporal , sergeant , getting much chance. let alone a guided tour !!

Wow the original owner was allowed to buy back his own building...

Thank you once again for another fascinating piece of video history! Amazing from beginning to end.(except watching some old fat-cat politicians walking away with important historical "plunder"! 😣) So moving to watch the pinning on of medals while hearing The Star Spangled Banner....made me cry. Our wonderful veterans, our beautiful flag. Thank you.❤

My Uncle Larry my fathers older sister Bettys husband was over there with the 101st we watched a TV program I believe it was titled where eagles dare he stated he was volunteered to stay down below the eagles nest a supplied communications and support and also he was in Hitlers bunker in Berlin after his supposedly suicide! RIH uncle Larry Stevens FW Flavel Wayne service number 35510671 truly the greatest generation All the Way!!

The region appears to have had a remarkably easy war, no bombing or food shortages, and the well fed and healthy looking fighting age men seem to have somehow avoided being conscripted to fight on the Eastern front, or any where else for that matter.

We fought the Wong enemy. General Patton

It’s absolutely disgusting that so much was destroyed! It’s also equally repugnant that it’s a tourist attraction! 🤢

The Allies bombing the Berghof and the other buildings at Obersalzberg amounted to an act of gross stupidity. The war was already as good as over in Europe and the Berghof and SS barracks etc. had been abandoned by most German military personnel. The Berghof and the other buildings including the SS barracks, hotel etc. were superb examples of 1930s architecture and quality construction. The whole area should have been saved for future generations who wished to visit and take a look at the former HQ of Adolf Hitler.

Would be much better with dramatic Wagner opera overture musik.

bin there 4 times, and defenetly a visit worth, alone the bus trip up there is worth every euro . go go go

(I see no black soldiers, although the black soldiers were used for the dirty and difficult task and after any victory, were sidelined and not shown in the victory celebrations. What a shame to pretend to be just, when the white soldiers/populations treats other human beings with different colours than there own with horrible atrocity and dishonour.)

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if the russians captured it, they would still be there

Very little, if any, mention of it being the RAF who alone bombed the Berghaus here, no doubt an oversight once again by our American cousins...

To the victor goes the spoils

i like the video but the music is a little too much its stupid...its pretty obvious what were seeing...

The music sucks. Otherwise, it's great!

How much was covered up i wonder !

2:55 Brad Pitt's father?

You old guys don't need to incriminate yourself.

The narrator needs to at least watch “Band of brothers” and then rescript and redo a bunch of this video. 101st I’d not said, “One hundred and One First”. SMH. It’s “One hundred and first”.

Please AI colorize this film

Thank God I called that place because that war with Texas and Oklahoma wouldn't end

Can do without the endless loud patriotic military music. It's more meaningful and impactful without it !!

16:21 Probably isn't, but the guy on the right sure looks like Dick Winters.

17:12 Play ball

Ugh, the building named after an American Muppet is rough, I would paint over that.

And all the boche sang, "Ve Vere Not a Nazi Polka."

When he talks about the looters, it's the American soldiers he is talking about not the civilians. You understand they would admitted it that.

Yo the Germans were being hell a sketchy about how after they got that stuff returned to them then they demolish it

narration ruined by idiotic music

The alpine fortress was 100 percent bluff but it served the purpose of diverting forces away from berlin even though the german people would of course prefer to be taken by the americans.

Stupid music in the background. Ruined the vid.

Whoa, check out 7.50 - guy shoveling snow with his trouser legs rolled up!

And all that just to keep a stark raving lunatic alive and in power... and for what? To the victors go the spoils.

Allied Looted so much of wealth and treasure. And destroyed so much heritage

Shameless destruction of history

May 5 1945 Nederland got freed by the Canadians! Forever grateful!

American troops tour the area with no one carrying weapons....

All that heroism against Germany, a 80 million peoples nation, fighting against an overwhelming mass of enemies in a 1:10 minority ratio, seems to counteract the real situation. Without Russias losses of 20 million deaths against Germany, no american or british soldier would have ever set one boot on the ground of german soil. Heroism is an issue of counteracting an overwhelming majority of enemies only by ignoring ones own live, facing the own death. Heroism as an issue of overwhelming superiority in an aspect of guaranted victory is …...I don`t know what, but not heroism in a traditional aspect.