HAUS WACHENFELD (BERGHOF) PILLOW

Souvenir pillow bearing a quality, carefully painted image of Adolf Hitler's Bavarian retreat, "Haus Wachenfeld" ca. 1934. This structure, which would ultimately be enlarged and improved by Hitler and come to be called the "Berghof", was originally built in 1916 for a banker named Winter, as a vacation cottage (his wife's maiden name was Wachenfeld). It was a modest house, with only one large room and a kitchen on the main floor. The pillow, covered in black felt, measures 20 x 14 in. and a caption beneath the image reads: "Landhaus unseres Fuhrers" ("Our Leader's country house"). Fine condition.