Obersalzberg is a historic place:
It was here that Adolf Hitler established his mountain residence, the Berghof.
The Obersalzberg Documentation Center opened in 1999 to inform visitors about the history of the site and the Nazi era. After considerable enlargement it reopened in 2023 with the new permanent exhibition Idyll and Atrocity founded on a completely new concept. The exhibition focuses on and resolves the apparent dichotomy between the idyllic setting of the mountain residence on the one hand and the horrors of the Nazi regime on the other. Some 350 objects, documents, photographs and multimedia elements are used to explain the history of the location and to tell of the fates of those who fell victim to the Nazis. The largest exhibit is the historic bunker complex, which can be accessed as part of a visit to the permanent exhibition.