Adolf Hitler's Munich apartment
Adolf Hitler's Munich apartment was an apartment owned by Adolf Hitler, located at Prinzregentenplatz 16 in the German city of Munich, the birthplace and capital of the Nazi Party which was formed in Munich in 1920.
Earlier residence
After Hitler was discharged from the Bavarian Army in March 1920, he returned to Munich and went to work full-time for the
Prinzregentenplatz 16
In 1929, Hitler moved into a luxury eight-room apartment at Prinzregentenplatz 16.[3] The apartment was on the second floor (according to European convention; third floor by American convention) and included two kitchens and two bathrooms. His publisher initially paid for it; a decade later Hitler paid for it outright.[2] Eventually, the whole building became property of the Nazi Party.[citation needed]
In 1935 the apartment was renovated by designer
In 1925, Hitler brought his widowed half-sister Angela Raubal from Austria to serve as housekeeper for both his Munich apartment and his rented villa The Berghof. She brought along her two daughters, Geli and Friedl. Hitler became very close to his niece Geli Raubal, and she moved into his apartment in 1929, when she was 20. Their relationship is shrouded in mystery but was widely rumored to be romantic. On September 18, 1931, she died of a gunshot wound in the apartment; the coroner proclaimed her death a suicide. Hitler was on his way to Erlangen to give a speech, but he returned immediately to Munich on hearing the news.[6] He took her death very hard and went into a depression. He mourned her for years, maintaining her rooms exactly as they had been.[7]
Hitler continued to live in the apartment until 1934, when he became Führer und Reichskanzler of Germany. After that, Hitler kept the apartment, but spent most of his time either in Berlin or in his Berghof residence.
Hitler sometimes used the Munich apartment for high-level diplomatic meetings. On September 25, 1937, he met there with
Postwar period
When the Allies occupied Munich in 1945, they found the apartment exactly as Hitler had left it.[10] Vogue photographer Lee Miller caught the public imagination by taking a bath in Hitler's tub.[11] The building served as the headquarters of the American Section during the immediate postwar period.[2][12]
Today
The building still stands and is occupied by the Munich Financing Office for the state of Bavaria. The second floor, Hitler's former apartment, houses the headquarters of the regional police of Munich and is not open to the public.[2]
References
Citations
- ^ Kershaw 2008, p. 93.
- ^ a b c d e "Traces of Evil: Remaining Nazi sites in Germany". Sites around Munich (3). 2008. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-300-18381-8.
- ISBN 978-0-300-18381-8.
- ^ Schenkler 2007, pp. 204–205.
- ^ Fouse 2005, pp. 161–162.
- ^ McDonough 2003, pp. 82–83.
- ^ Corvaja 2013, p. 48.
- ISBN 978-0-300-18381-8.
- ^ "At Home with Hitler". The Guardian. August 31, 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ Dyas, Brie (August 18, 2013). "Lee Miller, 1940s Vogue Photographer, Poses In Hitler's Bathtub (PHOTO)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-300-18381-8.
Sources
- Fouse, Gary C. (2005). Erlangen: An American's History of a German Town. University Press of America. ISBN 9780761830245.
- ISBN 978-0-393-06757-6.
- ISBN 978-1-4082-6921-3.
- Corvaja, Santi (2013). Hitler & Mussolini: The Secret Meetings. Enigma Books. ISBN 978-1-929631-42-1.
- Schenkler, Ines (2007). Hitler's Salon. Bern: International Academic Publishers.