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Flugplatz Am Roten Berg/Flughafen Erfurt-Nord
Location: Stotternheimer Landstrasse, North of Erfurt
Today:not longer there, the airport South of city centre is not the right one
To join in the manifestation of June 17 and 18, 1933, Hitler landed at the airfield Am Roten Berg.

Domkirche
Location: Domstrasse/Domplatz
Today: still there
For the nazi manifestation of June 17/18, 1933 about 60.000 SA-members marched through the city to the new stadium. Hitler watched the parade on June 18, standing in front of the Dom church, together with the minister-president of Hungary, Gömbös, minister of the justice department Frick and gauleader Sauckel. This was Hitlers only visit to Erfurt between 1933 and 1945.

Entjudungsinstitut
Location: Bornstrasse 11
Today: the building is still there
For as far as I know Hitler never visited this institute, but it’s existence says a lot about the third reich and it’s leader: In May, 1939 Evangelische Theologen started an insitute to remove nichtarischen influences from churchbooks and other theological material. They also worked on the bible. The ten commandments became the twelve commandments, with things like: Halte das Blut rein! Or Ehre Führer und Meister! in it. Luthers text Jesu Christ, der Herr Zebaoth became Jesus Christ, der Retter in Not ...

Heinrichsbrücke
Location: Bridge at the end of the Heinrichstrasse
Today: still there
On November 12/13, 1925 Adolf Hitler held a campagne speech in Gera. Because of protests of anti-Hitler groups Hitler had a hard time crossing the bridge to get to the Gasthaus Heinrichbrücke.

Schützenplatz, Gauparteitag 1931
Location: Ausstellungsgelände, East of Gera, just outside and West of Ronneburg
Today: area has changed
On 5 and 6 September, 1931 a Gauparteitag took place in the region of Gera. Hitler, Frick and Röhm were there. A rally took place on the Schützenplatz and a march of 10.000 nazis took place in the city of Gera.

Gauparteitag 1930
Location: Auf dem Markt
Today: still there
On the 12th and 13th of Juli, 1930 the Thüringer Gauparteitag der NSDAP took place in Gera. Auf dem Markt Hitler and Frick watched the parade of 5.000 nazis.

Flugplatz Gera-Tinz
Location: The North part of the city is called Gera-Tinz. The airport was were Bundesautobahn 4 is today. Where it was exactly we don’t know.
Today: The airport had to make place for a highway in 1936.
On Juli 27, 1932 Hitler is in Gera again. When he travelled from the airport to the Schützenplatz a lot of anti-Hitler-minded were protesting against Hitler.

Gauparteitag, 17 juni 1934
Location: unknown
On June 17, 1934 Goebbels and Hitler were in Gera attending a Gauparteitag again. They heared about a speech of Papen, they disliked. Hitler attacked Papen in his speech that night.

Kegelbahn and Gasthaus Heinrichsbrücke
Location: Heinrichstraße 49
Today: still there
On November 12/13, 1925 Adolf Hitler held a campagne speech in Gera. Because of protests of anti-Hitler groups Hitler had a hard time crossing the bridge to get to the Gasthaus Heinrichsbrücke. The anti-Hitler groups had a protest meeting at the Markt. Hitler held a speech at the Gasthaus.

The Burg
Location: unclear, East of Ohrdruf runs the Jonastal road through the woods. Parts of the tunnelsystem must have been there, dug into a hill forming the north side of the Jonas Valley, between Crawinkel and Arnstadt.The entrances have been bloown up. Where the Burg was, we don’t know.
Today: gone, the Soviets also blasted most of the tunnel entrances after the war
Engineers who worked at Ohrdruf claimed that Hitler was present at a Command Centre of the Test Complex at the end of March 1945. Some bunkers had special facilities and were called the Burg. If Hitler was here, the Burg must have been the place. Someone on Google Earth says it might have been on the Northwest-side of the woods around the Jonastal road.
Parts of the tunnel area were called: Siegfried, Olga, Burg, Jasmin; the entire project was called SIII.
For more information about the area look at http://www.gtgj.de

Salonwagen Compeigne
Location: the last station of the 2419 D was left of the road B 88 between Ohrdruf and Crawinkel on a sidetrack
Today: parts of the interior of the wagon are owned by people from the region. The salonwagon was set on fire at the end of the war, probably by German soldiers. In 1986 the undercarriage of the wagon has been destroyed.
A teacher called Gerd Kratsch from Ohrdruf together with his students searched for evidence for the fact that the famous Salonwagen of Compiégne was actually destroyed in April 1945 near Crawinkel. Since 1990 he did his research and he found out a lot, for instance that the last part of the wagon was just destroyed four years before he started looking for it. Look here for more information about Compeigne.

Test area Hitler’s bomb
Location: near Zwangsarbeitslager Ohrdruf, North and Northeast of Ohrdruf; 50.49.955’ N and 10.47.879’ E (look at Google Earth)
Did Hitler have an atomic bomb? Rainer Karlsch says in his book ‘Hitler’s Bomb’ that the Germans did nucleair tetsts on the isle of Rügen and near the concentrationcamp Ohrdruf. There’s been much discussion on this subject and about the question how close the Germans were to having a nucleair bomb. It probably wouldn’t have been a very powerfull one.
At the end of the war Hitler might have been in Ohrdruf. That must have been at the end of March, 1945. The facts on this matter are hard to find out.

Hotel Haus Elephant
Am Markt 19
Hitler for the first time spoke in Weimar in 1925. In Weimar Hitler wasn’t banned on public pronouncements, like in a lot of other places. The region (Thüringen) had the first nazi-gouvernment of Germany. Hitler visited Weimar for at least 35 times. He always stayed at Haus Elephant. At June 17, 1933 about a thousand old Thüringer NSDAP members are honoured in the presence of the Führer. Holm Kirsten’s book Weimar im Banne des Führers. Die Besuche Adolf Hitlers 1925-1940 (Köln, 2001) tells more about the Hitler visits to Weimar.
Other sites Hitler visited in Weimar: Goethehaus, Schillerhaus, Theater, Kaisercafe.

Schiesshaus
Location: There must be a Schiesshaus with a so called Festsaal, east of a Schloss in Weimar. The Schiesshaus is said to be in a very bad condition (2007), but the exact location isn’t mentioned.
On March 22 Hitler held three speeches in Weimar: one at the Schiesshaus, one at Gasthaus Erholung and one at an unknown location.

Gaststätte Erholung
Location: unsure, could be next to the Hotel Russischer Hof at the Goetheplatz
On March 22 Hitler held three speeches in Weimar: one at the Schiesshaus, one at Gasthaus Erholung and one at an unknown location. Hitler spoke at the Erholung for three times in 1925.

University of Jena
Location: exact location Hitler-visit unknown
Today:the headbuilding of the university is at the Fürstengraben
In 1930 Hitler was at the inauguration speach of Hans Günther (also called Rassen-Günther), who wrote the book Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes. In 1941 Hitler gave the university of Jena 100.000 Reichsmark to start an institute that had to analyse the dangers of smoking. The institute tried to prove the connection between smoking and cancer.

Visits Hitler in 1926, 1932 and 1940/41
Locations: unknown
In 1926 Hitler visited Altenburg for the first time. On that occasion he had to leave through the backdoor of the place where he held a speech, because of the crowd. In 1932 he was in Altenburg again. A large tent was built to have enough room for the masses that came to see him. He spoke at a mass rally. Somewhere at the end of 1940 or the beginning of 1941 he was in Altenburg with fighter squadron no. 153.
Does anyone know more about these events?

Hitler drives through Nordhausen
Location: see below, exact route unsure
Hitler never payed an official visit to Nordhausen. He drove through the town several times. In 1931 in Nordhausen the rumour spread that Hitler and other leaders of the NSDAP or SA had had to much to drink (and eat) at the Römischen Kaiser at the Kornmarkt (bombed in 1945), when they came back from the Harzburger Front on the 11th of October, 1931. Von Ep, Röhm and Rosenberg were there, Hitler wasn’t. It seems that the three men that were there didn’t have more than a simple meal.
On the first of october 1934 Hitler drove through the village (Kornmarkt-Rautenstrasse-Strasse Vor Den Vogel). On the 17th of July people in Nordhausen were waiting for Hitler to drive through the town on his way to the Denkmal Kyffhäuser. But he didn’t go through Nordhausen. When Hitler had been to the Kyffhäuser again on 8 June 1939 he drove through Nordhausen to get to the airport there. (Halllesche Strasse-Sundhäuser Strasse-Erfurterstrasse-Flugplatz)

Of more importance in this region is the KZ-Gedenkstätte Mittelbau-Dora. It’s on the Kohnsteinweg in Nordhausen. Mittelbau-Dora was a concentration camp and a factory for V1 and V2 bombs.

Flugplatz Nordhausen
Location: Alte Leipziger Strasse, near Hallesche Strasse/Nordhäuser Strasse
Today:
When Hitler had visited the Kyffhäuser Denkmal on June 8, 1939 he went to Nordhausen airport to get in his Ju 52.

Kyffhäuser
Denkmal Kyffhäuser
Location: region Nordhausen; between the villages of Kelbra and Tilleda; at the end of a street called Rathsfeld
Hitler was at the Kyffhäuser on at least two occasions. On October 1, 1934 and on June 8, 1939 to go to the Hindenburg Denkmal (a statue that was build in 1939). The Hindenburg statue was burried but recently it was discovered by the owner of the Kyffhäuser hotel. What they’re going to do with it is not sure. According to a myth the first German Reich (the Reich of emperor Frederik Barbarossa) was waiting for it’s resurraction underneath the mountain Kyffhäuser.