Berchtesgaden (1947)

Note: This newsreel was released in cinemas in 1947, though the home movies were filmed in the late 1930s.

Full title reads: "Berchtesgaden"

Shots from a secret film, taken by Heinrich Hoffman, Nazi photographer found buried in an orchard of Adolf Hitler, in his Berchtesgaden retreat in Germany.

LS Berchtesgaden, high in the Bavarian mountains. Good mountain scenery shot.

CU The Fuhrer sitting on the terrace, reading, playing with an Alsatian dog. and playing with a small boy.

MS Hitler greeting Joseph Goebbels, who pays a visit to Berchtesgaden.

CU of Joachim Von Ribbentrop.

CU of Heinrich Himmler, Head of the SS.

CU Eva Braun, Hitler's wife wearing Austrian peasant clothes.

MS Hitler dancing.

MS Hitler and Eva looking out over the valley from the terrace.

Cataloguers Note: This film was probably shot in the late 1930s.
FILM ID:1175.26

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