Bidspirit auction | German WWII Postcard - Landhaus

German WWII Postcard - Landhaus Wachenfeld, Obersalzberg - A period postcard depicting Landhaus Wachenfeld on the Obersalzberg, showing the alpine residence with surrounding mountains and a flagpole flying a flag in the foreground. The reverse is captioned ”Landhaus Wachenfeld, des Fuehrers Heim am Obersalzberg” with publisher credit ”Verlag: L. Ammon, Schoenau-Berchtesgaden” and numbered ”Nr. 130”. Landhaus Wachenfeld was the mountain residence later expanded and renamed the Berghof, and postcards of this type were produced commercially for sale to visitors and the general public in the 1930s. Landhaus Wachenfeld was the alpine house on the Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden that Adolf Hitler first rented and later purchased in the late 1920s, using it as a private retreat before its subsequent enlargement and renaming as the Berghof in 1935-36. Through the 1930s the Obersalzberg developed into a secondary seat of power alongside Berlin, where Hitler received foreign dignitaries and held political meetings, and the surrounding area was progressively taken over by the NSDAP and cleared of local residents. Commercial postcards such as this, produced by regional publishers like L. Ammon of Schoenau-Berchtesgaden, were part of a wider tourist and propaganda trade that promoted the site as a place of pilgrimage for the public during the Nazi era.