Bavarian Alps

And it was part of Nazi mythology.

And a lot of them, thousands of them, were gathering in the Bavarian Alps, which was a natural fortress against Allied bombings.

But they were really scattered all across Germany.

And the goal was to engage the enemy, meaning the occupying forces of the U.S. Army, the Brits, and the Red Army, and not launch a full-scale counteroffensive, but to damage, destroy them through guerrilla warfare, operate in the dark, kill German collaborators, sniper fire at Americans, just make the occupation as difficult as possible.

So what colonel major would listen to the orders issued by G.I. Joe.

That's why it was kept confidential.

Getting back to Mattinson and Bruskin, they were in the Bavarian Alps, and they had intelligence information that Colton Brunner was hiding out there.

And so they got into a jeep.

No labels, no brand reputations, and no discussion during the tasting that might influence someone else's opinion.

Among the panelists was Melanie Hench, who grew up in the Bavarian Alps.

Her family credentials included relatives who were lederhosen to weddings and holidays, and an uncle who spent more than 20 years delivering beer for Lowenbrau.

In other words, someone who brought a little hometown perspective to the assignment.

On May 21, 1945, Himmler was captured by the British while attempting to flee, but he took his own life via a cyanide capsule.

Another high-ranking official in the SS, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who'd been a part of the Austrian SS unit, was apprehended while in the Bavarian Alps.

He, along with 23 others, were placed on trial in 1946.

Many people, including Allied forces and freed prisoners, sought retaliation for the cruelty and violence doled out by the Nazi regime following its end.

He doesn't finalize the design there.

Instead, he travels south to the Bavarian Alps, to the Eagle's Nest, Hitler's mountaintop retreat.

And inside the Eagle's Nest, Aquino finds a small wood-paneled room.

That's Eva Braun's tearoom, Hitler's girlfriend's private space.

But she can't.

Her mom is dead, and her dad has moved Gretchen and the family to a quaint old resort complex in the Bavarian Alps.

This family includes her stepmother Beth, played by Jessica Henwick, and Beth's daughter, Gretchen's young half-sister, Alma.

Alma is not deaf, but for an unknown reason she doesn't speak, and she communicates with sign language instead.

No labels, no brand reputations, and no discussion during the tasting that might influence someone else's opinion.

Among the panelists was Melanie Hench, who grew up in the Bavarian Alps.

Her family credentials included relatives who were lederhosen to weddings and holidays, and an uncle who spent more than 20 years delivering beer for Lowenbrau.

In other words, someone who brought a little hometown perspective to the assignment.

Chamberlain, who's the Prime Minister of Britain, and Deladier, who is the Prime Minister of France, have both kind of taken very good of this and say, no, you can't just do this.

And, you know, and hence the meetings, first of all, at the Berkhof, which is Hitler's home in the Bavarian Alps, and then subsequently in Munich.

But the British and the French cave in on this and say, okay, fine, you know.

And Chamberlain comes back with his little piece of paper, say it's Peace Start Times and, you know, Why are we building trenches in Hyde Park and getting ready for war about a country that's a long way away and about people whom we know very little? And you can understand his point.