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The following sites can be found on this page. Click these links to proceed directly to a particular site. Bad Berneck (Bavaria), Baldham (Bavaria), Bamberg , Heidelberg , Kitzingen (Bavaria), Lambach (Bavaria), Neuschwanstein Castle and Linderhof Palace (Bavaria), Mangfall Bridge (Bavaria), Bergen Bridge (Bavaria), Holledau Bridge (Bavaria), Ochsenfurt (Bavaria), Saint-Marcouf (Normandy, France), London (England), Stadtilm (Thüringen), Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg), Wasserkuppe (Hessen), Kaiserslautern (Rheinland-Pfalz), Thingplatz sites, air raid shelter sites. The sites in Part 2 include the Bavaria-Thuringia border (Luftwaffe radar site), Doggerwerk, Hirschbachtal, Bayreuth, Kronach, Marktzeuln, Miesbach, Gallneukirchen, Murnau, and Autobahn ruins (Bavaria), Tondorf (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Hirschberg and Jena (Thuringia), Michendorf (Berlin), and Kaiserslautern (Rheinland-Pfalz). The sites in Part 3 include Eichstätt, Neustadt bei Coburg, Neustadt an der Aisch, Langenzenn, Kelheim, Vilsbiburg, Coburg, Aschaffenburg, Fladungen, Oberwildflecken, Urfeld, Pleikershof, and Bayrischzell (all in Bavaria); Rodert/Bad Münstereifel (Nordrhein-Westphalen); and Ziegenberg, Giessen, and Windecken (Hessen); Freudenstadt (Baden-Württemberg); and Brûly-de-Pesche (Belgium). The sites in Part 4 include bunker sites and a Nazi war memorial in Bavaria, air-raid shelter bunkers in Fürth (Bavaria), sites in Goslar, Braunschweig and elsewhere (Lower Saxony), Nazi Finance School in Herrsching, Nazi Farmers Academy in Mindelheim, Muggendorf, Hilpoltstein, Grafenwöhr, and Göring's castle (all in Bavaria), Rheinhotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg (Nordrhein-Westfalen). The sites in Part 5 include the DAF School at Erwitte (Nordrhein-Westfalen); Amtsgericht, Volksschule, and Siemens building in Erlangen (Bavaria); Reichsbank in Koblenz (Baden-Württemberg); and the SS Honor Castle at Wewelsburg (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Luftwaffe test site at Rechlin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), V-2 rocket development site at Peenemünde (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), NSKK School at Kochel am See (Bavaria), Rathaus at Mittenwald (Bavaria), Hitler at Walhalla (Bavaria), SS Lebensborn Home at Steinhöring (Bavaria), Forsthaus at Lohr am Main (Bavaria). The sites in Part 6 include Frankfurt am Main (Hessen), Feilitzsch (Bavaria), Tannenberg (East Prussia), Ratibor (Upper Silesia), Sassnitz (Saßnitz) (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Stetten am kalten Markt and Kirchheim unter Teck (Baden-Württemberg). The sites in Part 7 include Wusterhausen an der Dosse (Brandenburg), Lienz (Tyrol, Austria), Geretsried, Deiningen, Heuberg (Bavaria), Carinhall and Ravensbrück (Brandenburg), Dinkelsbühl, Rothenburg o.d. Tauber, Ansbach, Lichtenau, Neumarkt i.d. Oberpfalz (Bavaria); Adolf Hitler Koog (Schleswig-Holstein), Masurian Canal locks (Poland). The Sites in Part 8 include Radolfzell am Bodensee and the Haigerloch Atomkeller (Baden-Württemberg), the Bückeberg Reichsthingstätte and U-Boat Bunkers in Bremen (Lower Saxony), Hermann Monument at the Teutoburger Wald (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Germersheim (Rheinland-Pfalz); and Augsburg, Augsburg-Biburg, and Landsberg (Bavaria); and Schönau im Schwarzwald (Baden-Württemberg). The sites in Part 9 include Erlenbach am Main (Hessen) and Kaufering (Bavaria). Adolf Hitler was a big fan of Richard Wagner's music and operas, and he never missed the annual Wagner Festival in Bayreuth . During the festival, and on his trips between Berlin and Munich, Hitler often stayed at the renowned Hotel Bube in Bad Berneck, just north of Bayreuth. The building remains virtually unchanged today. Below, Hitler greets the crowd outside the Hotel Bube in a series of private photos. In the photo on the right, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess appears on the steps behind Hitler. (author's collection) (MapQuest Map Link ) The Hotel Bube in a period postcard view, and the corresponding scene today. The bridge over the Mangfall river valley southeast of Munich was the first long bridge in Hitler's Autobah