Last week a diplomatic drama as strange as a Wagnerian opera unrolled in the Bavarian Alps. The setting was WagnerianFührer Adolf Hitler's Berghof at Berchtesgaden, a mountain hideaway 15 miles from music-haunted Salzburg, 600 miles from Danzig, 1,300 miles from Moscow, and 3,000 feet above sea level. Facing the cloud-capped mountains the brown and white Berghof itselfhuge echoing rooms, wide halls, bedrooms for 40 guests, guards' turrets, flower gardens, machine-gun nestsseemed as unreal as the home of the Troll kings.
At this ethereal haunt there arrived one day last week Count Galeazzo...
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