World War II U.S. Army Official 1945 Map of the Obersalzberg Nazi Leadership Compound and Hitler’s Berghof.

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Official U.S. Army map documenting the military geography of the Obersalzberg, Adolf Hitler’s Bavarian headquarters and one of the principal leadership centers of the Third Reich, during the final weeks of World War II. The map identifies the Berghof, SS barracks, the residences of Martin Bormann and Hermann Göring, roads toward Mount Kehlstein and the Kehlsteinhaus, and other features within the restricted Nazi compound. It provides a contemporary record of how American forces mapped and navigated this highly fortified and symbolically important enemy landscape at the moment of its destruction and occupation.

Official U.S. Army Map of the Obersalzberg Nazi Compound. U.S. Army, 1945. Single-sheet map measuring 8 x 11¾ inches. By the war’s end, the Obersalzberg had developed into a cordoned-off Nazi leadership enclave centered on Hitler’s Berghof, with residences, barracks, administrative facilities, and security installations serving senior members of the regime and SS personnel. The map’s schematic and somewhat imperfect geography suggests a practical military purpose rather than a postwar survey, providing U.S. personnel with navigational guidance through terrain that had not yet been fully documented on the ground. Its 1945 date places the map directly within the destruction and Allied occupation of the Obersalzberg. RAF Bomber Command attacked the compound on April 25, 1945, and American forces entered the area in early May, discovering and occupying the remains of one of Nazi Germany’s most politically charged command centers.

Typical fold creases from field handling; upper corners clipped, possibly from mounting or pinning; light stain at lower left; edge wear; tear at lower right not affecting the map image. Overall very good. A scarce contemporary U.S. military document recording the physical organization of Hitler’s Obersalzberg headquarters and the practical geography confronting American forces as they entered and occupied the Nazi leadership complex in the final days of the war.

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Price: $450.00