[CptnObvious]

What a gift!

[onedoug]

BTT!

[katana]

I was puzzled by Nordlinger saying Helms “snuck into the Chancellery” when as of VE Day it was under Soviet control. Had trouble picturing the NKVD tolerating an OSS operative getting in and stealing anything. Thanks for clearing up the confusion by posting the actual letter, address Obersalzberg, location of Hitler’s Alpine retreat then under control of the 101st Airborne. Whatever the circumstances, what a gift indeed.

[rlmorel]

That is very cool.

[04-Bravo]

Thanks for posting a copy of the letter.

The letterhead address is “Obersalzburg”, which would have been the Berchtesgaden “Eagle’s Nest” compound.

It’s possible that there would have been some Obersalzburg stationery in Hitler’s Berlin bunker in 1945, but it seems more likely that this stationery was recovered in Berchtesgaden.

[Jabba the Nutt]

This is not stationery from Hitler's Bunker in Berlin, which was captured by the Russians. No Americans were anywhere near Berlin on V-E day. This is from Obersalzberg, Hitler's complex on the hill above Berchtesgaden,

which included the Eagle's Nest further up the mountain.

[Kommodor]

That’s pretty amazing.

[cookiemcbride]

Is the story incorrect in some details? Why was Hitler’s Obersalzberg stationary in the Reichskanzler’s office in Berlin? And wasn’t the place pretty well looted once the western allies got there? How would there have been anything left?