NORDR.-WESTFALEN

Marriage of Terboven
Location: unknown
Today: unknown
Hitler flew to Essen to go to Gauleiter Terbovens marriage on the day before he arrested Ernst Röhm.

Krupp Factories
Location: large part of the city
Today: the factories were bombed, what was left was removed, open space in the city still reminds of the factories.
On the 27th of March, 1936 Hitler inspected the Krupp factory in Essen. Two enormous railway guns were built there, Dora and Schwerer Gustav. Years later at Rügenwalde the guns were tested. Hitler held a speech inside the factorie.

Villa Hügel
Location: Stadtteil Bredeney, Hugelweg/Haraldstrasse
Today: still there, there’s an archive about Krupp and there is an excibition
The villa Hügel was the family house of the Krupp family. Hitler was there a few times when he visited Essen.

Düsseldorfer Parkhotel
Location: Königsallee 1a
Today: still there as Steigenberger Parkhotel
On Januari 27, 1932 Hitler spoke in the large ball room of the Parkhotel. On the 26th of Januari, 1936 Hitler had his famous meeting with a club of industrials in this hotel. There are pictures of Hitler in a car driving him through a crowd on the Königsallee in 1937.

Heinrich Hoffmann Store
Location: Graf-Adolf-Strasse 112
Today: not sure, but there seems to be a fashion shop on that address that goes by the name of Hoffmann Modevertrieb
Heinrich Hoffmann had stores in different city’s. The picture shows the one in Düsseldorf in 1937.

Nordpark
Location: between the Kaiserwertherstrasse and the Stockumer Kirchstrasse
Today: the park is still there
On the 2nd of October 1937 Hitler attended the exhibition ‘Das schaffendes Volk’ in Düsseldorf. The exhibition showed German progress in a lot of areas of society. Companies like Henkel, Siemens and AEG were presenting themselves. Millions of people came to see the exhibition.

Funeral Vom Rath
Location: Nordfriedhof, Feld 72
Today: the grave is still there
When Ernst vom Rath got killed by a jewish man on November 9, 1938, the German government used it as an excuse for the Kristallnacht that followed. The funeral of Vom Rath took place on the 17th of November. Hitler was there.
The Nordfriedhof used to have the Schlageter-Ehrenmahl. Schlageter fought in WW1 and he was an early NSDAP-member. His large tombe became a nazi-pilgrimage. Today the statue of the ‘Drei Nornen’ is at the same spot. Some people wanted to rename Düsseldorf into Schlageterstadt.

Rheinmetall-Werke
Location: Rheinmetall-Allee 1
Today: the company has gone, a large administration building is still there
The Rheinmetal-Werke started as a company of metal and machines. In the thirtees they started to make weapons. In 1937 Adolf Hitler visited the company. The company has left Düsseldorf. Only a large administration building is still there.

SA-parade
Location: unknown
Today: unknown
Hitler was present at a parade of the SA, section Westfalen on Juli 9, 1933, somewhere at city centre.

Westfalenhalle
Location: Rheinlanddamm 200
Today: the old Westfalenhalle doesn’t exist anymore, the new one is built after the war
Hitler speaks on Sunday 30 October 1932 at 4 p.m. at the Westfalenhalle, together with Gauleiter Wagner. There’s a so called Gedenkstein (stone of remembrance) in the Westfalenhalle 3b for the prisoners that died during the bombing of the old hall.

Zeche Rheinelbe
Location: Rheinelbestrasse, Gelsenkirchen-Uckendorf
Today: some buildings are still there
Adolf Hitler was at the funeral of Emil Kirdorf on July 13, 1938. His funeral was at the Gelände der Zeche Rheinelbe. The Zeche Rheinelbe was a Steinkohlen-Bergwerk (coalmine) in Gelsenkirchen untill the sixties. On the Rheinelbestraße are still some buildings left. Also look at Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Second visit of Hitler to Köln
Locations: not known
On the 30th of March 1938 Hitler was in Köln again for the so called Volksabstimmung for the Anschluss with Austria.

Above: Hitler in Köln, date unknown, but probably 1936
Right: Hitler speaks in Köln, date and exact location unknown

Gürzenich
Martinstrasse/Gürzenichstrasse
Today: still there
On March 28, 1936 Hitler was celebrated by the people of Köln at the Gürzenich.

Villa Schröder
Location: Köln-Lindenthal, Stadtwaltgürtel 35
Today: still there
Hitler and Franz von Papen met eachother in the villa of baron Kurt von Schröder on Januari 4, 1933. Von Papen maybe could talk Hindenburg into making Hitler Reichskanzler.

Domhotel
Location: Domkloster 2a
Today: still there
On March 28, 1936 Hitler was in Köln because of the Remilitarisierung des Rheinlands. On the square in front of the Dom and the hotel a large crowd kept on calling on Hitler to show himself on the balcony. After he’d done that, the crowd was quiet for about 15 minutes. Than they started yelling again. Hitler goes to the balcony again. This went on for quite a while.

Rheinhotel Dreesen
Rheinstrasse 45-49
Bonn (Bad Godesberg)
Today: still there
Hitler visited the Rheinhotel more than 50 times. The first time he was there was on November 28, 1926. He was also here the night before ‘The Night Of The Long Knifes’ in 1934. The hotel is most famous for the meeting of Hitler and Chamberlain during the Sudetencrisis on September 22/23, 1938. Chamberlain stayed at the Hotel Petersberg, on the other side of the river Rhine.

Bahnhof Gemünd
Location: near the crossing of the B265 and B266
Today: the former station of Gemünd is still there, but it’s not in real use anymore
When Hitler visited Ordensburg Vogelsang in 1936 and 1937 he went to Gemünd by train. There he got into a car to drive to Vogelsang.

Adolf Hitler was at Ordensburg Vogelsang on April 28, 1937. This picture shows him after he arrived on the station of Gemünd

Speech Hitler
Location: unknown
Hitler spoke in Bonn in 1926. We’re sorry to say we don’t know more than this...

Streithof
Freundhofweg 5
Today: still there, used as home for the elderly, klinik; exaxt use today not sure
The Streithof was the house of important industrial Emil Kirdorf. Hitler was at this house several times in 1930/1931, for instance to speak for other industrial leaders of Germany. Hitler was also present at the 90st birthday of Kirdorf in April 1937. When Kirdorf died in 1938 Hitler attends a ceremony in Kirdorfs honour in Gelsenkirchen.

Halle Münsterland
Location: Albersloher Weg 32
Today: original hall bombed in 1941
In 1932 Joseph Goebbels, Robert Ley, Gregor Strasser, Wilhelm Frick and Adolf Hitler visited Münster. Hitler spoke for the election of the Reichspräsidenten on April 8, 1932 for 10.000 people. About 7.000 of them were inside the Halle Münsterland, 3.000 people listened to him outside the hall. The Münsterland hall was built in 1926, but in 1941 it was totally ruined after allied bombing. In 1948/49 a new hall was built on the same location. Over the years the hall had many changes. In the ninetees the hall was renovated.

Somewhere in Münster Hitler met Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
Location: not known
Today:not known
Just after Hitler got out of prison, in 1926, he went to Münster to visit former Freikorpsführer Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, to aks him to lead the SA.

Führer Haupt Quartier (FHQ) Felsennest
Location: Rodert (17 km. from Bad Münstereifel); in Rodert follow the Waldstrasse untill the end, where there’s place to park your car; a path called the Feldweg runs to the Eselsberg, the Felsennest hill
Today: blown up under unclear cercomstances in 1945, remains and bunkers are still there
Hitler was here in the autumn of 1939, because of a possible invasion of France and the Low Coutries. He was there again on May 10, 1940 for the actual invasion. He stayed here untill June 6, 1940. After that he went to FHQ Wolfsslucht.

At the end of the Waldstrasse is a place were you can park your car. A path runs up to the Eselsberg. In the woods on the left of the left picture was the Felsennest. Walk past the woods untill the path takes a turn to the left. On your right hand runs a path downhill to the remains of the Kartenraum, on your left is a path uphill that leads to the Felsennest bunker

Left picture: the Felsennest from the other side; Right picture: the Führer Haupt Quartier hidden in the trees

The Felsennest was blown up, but around a large hole in the ground you can see the countour of the bunker in the straight lines of the concrete remains.

Complex with bunker and rooms for soldiers and staf
Location: Effelsbergerweg crossing Schiessbachstrasse, first green dot on the right of the Felsennest map
Today: changed, but still there; private property
For instance Morell and Bormann stayed at this location when they were in the Felsennest area.

Kleines Gästehaus
Location: Effelsbergerweg, second green dot on the right of the Felsennest map
Today: changed, but inside the house a heavy bunker door must still be there; private property
The secretary’s of Hitler lived here, when Hitler was here in 1940. Hitler visited this house at least once.

Cinema
Location: Waldstrasse 16
Today: changed, but still there
Every Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock Hitler saw the latest Wochenschau here. He also saw the antisemitic movie Der ewige Jude here.

Feldflugplatz Odendorf
Location: in Palmersheim take the L11 to Odendorf, take the first (small) road to the left, when you see a road or path from the right, you’re already facing the former airfield
Today: nothing left but a Rollbahnbrücken (on another location, see below)
This temporary airfield was made in 1938/1939. Hitler used it and Göring and Goebbels did too. At the end of the war Eisenhower landed on the airfield. Patton was there to pick him up.

Rollbahnbrücken
Location: take the L11 in Palmersheim to Flamersheim, turn left to Rheinbach, after two roads on the right, a path to the right turns up; a few hundred meters from the road lies the small bridge
Today: still there
This bridge over the small river Orbach was used to transport plains into the woods when allied air raids took place. There’s no direct connection to Hitler, but it’s the only leftover of the Felsennest Flugpatz.

Forsthaus Hülloch/ Hauptquartier des Oberkommando des Heeres
Location: Driving from Rodert to Rheinbach on the L234 you go left to Rheinbach on the L498. After 1,5 kilometers the Forsthaus is on your left. Across the road form the driveway is a guardhouse that belonged to the bunker complex. The bunkers are visable from the road on the left and right side of the road; the villa is private property
Today: under the same mysterious cercomstances as the Felsennest the bunkers were blown up at the end of the war
With it’s 7 large bunkers and barracks the Hauptquartier des Heeres (Army Headquarters) was much larger than the Felsennest. It was blown up in March 1945. Hitler was at the Hülloch bunkers only once.

The Hülloch complex must have been uge. The guy in front of the ruins is in fact more than two meters tall

Hermannsdenkmal
Location: near Detmold at the end of the Hermannsweg
Today: still there
Hitler saw the two monuments: the Hermannsdenkmal and the Niederwalddenkmal (Hessen) when he was on his way to the battlefields of the first World War in 1914. It is said that he was very impressed.

The Fackelträger than and now. The stairway is not longer there. The text right from the statue has been partly removed. It said to the ones that were ‘educated’ here: IHR SEID DIE FACKELTRAGER DER NATION IHR TRAGT DAS LICHT DES GEISTES VORAN IM KAMPFE FUR ADOLF HITLER

Left and right: Hitler and Hess in front of Vogelsang Centre: the building today has only two floors above ground level. On the other pictures there are three floors.

Geschäftsstelle NSDAP Elberfeld
Location: Holzerstrasse (exact number unknown)
Today: not sure, on June 30, 1929 Barmen, Elberfeld, Vohwinkel, Ronsdorf and Cronenberg were joined together, the Holzerstrasse lies inside the city Wuppertal since than
On June 13, 1926 Adolf Hitler visited these NSDAP headquarters in Elberfeld.

Stadion am Zoo
Location: Hubertusallee 4 (Elberfeld)
Today: the stadium was built in 1924; it burned down in 1932 but it was rebuilt in 1972 the stadium was renovated, without ruining the old stadium
On Juli 24, 1932 Hitler and Goebbels speak in the Stadion Zoo during an ellection campagne.

Evangelische Vereinshaus
Location: Kasinostrasse 1 (Elberfeld)
Today: it seems like it is still there
This location was the scene where right wing radicals and anti semitic groups gathered. Hitler spoke at the Vereinshaus twice, in 1922 and in 1926, in the grossen Saal. Later the building became a Gestapo building.

Station Palenberg
Location: Bahnhofstrasse
Today: not sure about the authenticity of the building
Hitler was at the Palenberg station on August 27, 1938.

Westwall visits
Location: from Aachen along the entire border of Germany
Today: a lot of remains of the Westwall are in pretty good shape.
Hitler visited the Wetswall several times, for instance in the period of August/September 1938. Look www.7grad.org to get an idea of the Westwall remains.