OTHER PLACES

Führer Haupt Quartier Südost (Frühlingsstorm)
Sonderzug Amerika
Exit train tunnel in woods East of Mönichkirchen
Mönichkirchen is a town between Graz and Vienna. Hitlers privat train arrived here on April 11, 1941 (during the period of the capitulation of Joegoslavia and Greece). It stood at the exit of a tunnel. It stayed there for fourteen days. Boris from Bulgaria, admiral Horthy and the Italian count Ciano came here to try to annexate parts of Joegoslavia. On April 20 Hitlers 52nd birthday was celebrated here with a concert in front of the train.

Cinema
Gmünd (Waltviertel), exact location unknown
Today: not clear
On the 10th of October 1920 Hitler held a speach here against Versailles and the Weimar republic. Socialists prevent Hitlers speach in the city Gross Siegharts, the next day.

Brenner Pas
Border between Austria and Italy
Hitler and Mussolini met eachother here several times. This mountain pass has a road and a railway, so it could also be reached by train.
On March 18, 1940 Mussolini and Hitler met eachother on the little station on the Brennerpas. The private trains of both dictators were at the station. The meeting took place in Mussolini’s train. Hitler wanted to improve the realtions with Italy before starting the invasion in the Western parts of Europe.
On October 4, 1940 Hitler met Mussolini again on the Brennerpas. This time just before he met Franco, who had some territorial demands.
On June 2, 1941 Hitler met Mussolini just before the attack on Russia. It was a strange meeting in which nothing was said about Russia. Ian Kershaw states that this meeting maybe in some way was used in the cover-up of the operation Barbarossa (the invasion of Russia).

Station
Today: not sure about the authenticity of the station
Hitlers Sonderzug stopped here for a while when it was on the way to Innsbruck on 5 April 1938.

Bridge over the river Slazach
Location: one of the bridges between the Giselakai/Imbergstrasse and the Rudolfskai
Today: not sure about the authenticity of the bridge, but the view still looks the same
The picture below shows the bridge Hitler crossed when he visited Salzburg on April the 6th 1938.

Above: the bridge over the Slazach river in 1976. Right: The same area today. Both pictures show the same buildings as on the Hitler picture. The building on the hill is the Hohensalzburg Fortress.

Schloss Klessheim
Klessheimerstrasse, Seizenheim
Today: the Schloss is being used as a casino
The Klessheim castle was used for state visits at different occasions. After his Reichstagspeech on April 26, 1942 Hitler went to München and the Obersalzberg. In that period he also met Mussolini at the Schloss Klessheim.
At the end of April 1943 Hitler also met Mussolini at the Klessheim castle. From Februari 26 untill Februari 28, 1944 there was a meeting between Hitler and Antonescu in the castle. On April 22 of that same year Hitler met Mussolini again and in the period of D-day the nazi leaders were at the castle to meet the new prime minister of Hungary at the castle.Albert Speer was in this castle to recover from his illness in 1944. Hitler and Speer meet eachother here in March 1944.

Walserberg
Near Salzburg, in the area of the Wiener Bundesstrasse/Walserberg Bundestrasse
Exact location: not known
On the 7th of April Hitler opens the building of highway between München-Salzburg-Wien on the Walserberg.

Military Service Hitler
Location: unknown
When Hitler lived in München the police came to him on Januari 18, 1914 with the order to go to Linz to report for his military service. After Hitler missed the first date, he was permitted to report in Salzburg on Februari the 5th.

Speech at the Conference of international National-Socialists
Location: Salzburger Landtag; exact locations unknown
On August 7 and 8, 1920 a conference of national socialists from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland took place in Salzburg. Hitler spoke in the Salzburger Landtag on August 7 and in the Kurhaus on August 8.

Speeches at the Kurhaus
Location: unknown
On August 7 and 8, 1920 a conference of national socialists from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland took place in Salzburg. Hitler spoke in the Salzburger Landtag on August 7 and in the Kurhaus on August 8. Hitler also held a speech at the Kurhaus on October 1, 1920.

Flugplatz Salzburg-Maxglan (today Airport Salzburg W.A. Mozart)
Location: Innsbrucker Bundesstrasse
Today: the airport is still located in the same area but it’s become a modern airport
Hitler landed at the airport of Salzburg several times, for instance after the meeting with Rommel and Rundstedt in Wolfsschlucht 2 (Margival, France).

Festhalle
Adres unknown
When Hitler travelled through Austria in 1938 he also visited Klagenfurt, where he spoke at the Festhalle at night.

Hitler visited Graz on 3 and 4 April 1938. He talked to the people of the town in the Weizer Waggonfabrik. After that he went for a tour through the streets of Graz. We’re not sure about where the picture of Hitler (below) was taken. Also interesting in Graz is a post war leaded window in the Stadtpfarrkirche, that shows Hitler and Mussolini (among others) hurting Christ on his way to Golgotha, of the artist Albert Birkle.

Above: Men in uniform marking the streets of Graz, when Hitler drives by Centre: Hitler in Graz, the exact place were the picture was taken is not clear

Hitler passing the Hauptplatz in Melk. The building on the left is called Gasthaus Grunen Baum. In the picture below you see the Hauptplatz after a flood in 2002. The Gasthaus is now called Hotel Stadt Melk. The building in the centre of the above picture is also still there

Die Stadtsäle
Sankt Pölten is a town in lower Austria, the address is Volklplatz 1
Today: still there
Hitler spoke here on October 6 or on October 11, 1920. It’s not clear what the exact date is, yet. He spoke at a meeting of the National Socialist Party. The meeting ended up in a streetfight.

Pictures of Hitler in Villach
Locations: unknown, the first picture was taken from the train Hitler was in
In 1938 Hitler was in/ drove through Villach

Hitlers library in villa Castiglioni
Location: Grundlsee, Steiermark, Liezen district, exact location unknown
Today: the house is still there, the library is not
The villa of bussinessman Castiglione was the hiding place of Hitlers private library in 1945. The books and other stuff were taken elsewhere.

Alte Landhaus
Maria-Theresien-Strasse
Today: Still there
When Hitler was in Innsbruck in April of 1938 he spoke to the people of the town in the so called Landhaus, where the local gouvernment was seated. When the old Landhaus became too small for the NS-gouvernement, the nazi’s build a new part to it on the backside of the old building.

Bahnhof Innsbruck (train station)
Location: Südtiroler Platz
Today: Bombed at the end of the second world war. Rebuilt after the war. In 2004 a completely new station was build.
A propaganda book of Heinrich Hoffmann shows Hitler in front of the station of Innsbruck. (see below)

Speech at the Stadtsaal
Location: Universitätssrasse 1
Today: the site of the old Stadtsaal is occupied by a new Stadtsaal building
On September 29, 1920 Hitler spoke at the Stadtsaal in Innsbruck.

Speech at a meeting of the Austrian National Socialists
Location: unknown
On October 2, 1920 Hitler spoke in Hallein at a meeting of the Austrian Deutschen Nationalsozialistischen Arbeiterpartei. At the end of Spetember and the beginning of October Hitler was in Austria. He (for instance) also visited Braunau, Salzburg and Wien.