The Snapshots in Time Collection

Obersalzberg Motor Pool Building with American Flag, Eagle's Nest Area, 1945

Obersalzberg Motor Pool Building with American Flag, Eagle's Nest Area, 1945

A motor pool building in the Obersalzberg complex near Berchtesgaden, Germany, photographed by members of the 101st Airborne Division in the closing days of World War II. The American flag raised on the pole in the foreground marks the area, once the mountain retreat of the Nazi leadership near Hitler's Eagle's Nest, as newly secured by U.S. forces in May 1945. Project: 218246