A fascinating — and disturbingly fawning — Homes and Gardens article from November 1938, on “Hitler’s Mountain Home” at Berchtesgaden.
All visitors are shown their host’s model kennels, where he breeds magnificent Alsations. Some of his pedigree pets are allowed the run of the house, especially on days when Herr Hitler gives a “Fun Fair” to the local children. On such a day, when State affairs are over, the Squire himself, attended by some of his guests, will stroll through the woods into hamlets above and below. There rustics sit at cottage doors carving trinkets and toys in wood, ivory and bone. It is then the little ones are invited to the house. Coffee, cakes, fruit and sweets are laid for them on trestle tables in the grassy orchards. Then Frauen Goebbels and Goering, in dainty Bavarian dress, arrange dances and folk-songs, while the bolder spirits are given joy-rides in Herr Hitler’s private aeroplane.
Charming.
(via BoingBoing)
UPDATE: The publisher of the magazine, still going strong in Britain, has asked that the reproduced pages be taken down …