Bergtesgaden was, for some time, the home town of both Adolf Hitler and Dieter Eckhardt, the father of national socialism. It is a small place in Bavaria not far from the Austrian border. I did not live through the last war, but I was interested in seeing if there was something about this particular place that could have created two such men.
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