The group descended in the elevator and drove a mile back down the mountain to a level area where the Nazi party had built Hitler a separate residence, a private house. The front of the house was a twenty-five-foot-wide plate-glass window with no glass in it. The building had been almost completely destroyed by an RAF blockbuster bomb and by subsequent visits from American soldiers, who wrecked what was left of the house before the army stopped them. William thought it was a shame. “I think it is too bad that this whole installation was not left absolutely intact to serve as an everlasting and
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