Editing Alps (section)

=== The Nazis ===
[[File:Ghent altarpiece at Altaussee.jpg|thumb|left|The Nazis hid looted art in salt mines at [[Altaussee]], such as the [[Early Netherlandish art|Early Netherlandish]] ''[[Ghent Altarpiece]]'' which sustained significant damage.]]

In autumn 1932, [[Adolf Hitler]] commissioned the first of a series of refurbishments, which eventually turned a mountain cottage, later named [[Berghof (residence)|Berghof]], into a fortified [[citadel]]. This domestic, but representative, fortification had two small bedrooms, and a full bathroom, planned by the Munich architect and NSDAP member [[Josef Neumaier]]. Guests, such as [[Rudolf Hess]], stayed over, sleeping in tents or over the garage.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Hitler at Home |author1=Despina Stratigakos |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2015 |isbn=9780300187601 |page=}}</ref>

The Alps, Adolf Hitler, and improbable powerful organizations have been subject to [[crime fiction]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice |author1=Gerald Steinacher |publisher=OUP Oxford |year=2011 |isbn=9780191653766 |page=xvi}}</ref> The Alps acted as a geographical barrier to [[Italy]], and the Alps for centuries were permeated with established smuggling routes, known as ''green line''. After World War II, members of the [[Schutzstaffel]] that feared prosecution as [[war criminal]]s, known in modern English only as ''SS'', disappeared into a crowd of [[refugee]]s.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice |author1=Gerald Steinacher |publisher=OUP Oxford |year=2011 |isbn=9780191653766 |page=3}}</ref> Massive numbers of refugees entered Italy illegally, by navigating the Alps.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice |author1=Gerald Steinacher |publisher=OUP Oxford |year=2011 |isbn=9780191653766 |page=15}}</ref>