Berchtesgaden gave rise to "Malereck" ("painters' corner") on the shore of Königssee in nearby Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden. The most famous author who lived in Berchtesgaden was Ludwig Ganghofer. Adolf Hitler had been vacationing in the Berchtesgaden area since the 1920s. He purchased a home in the Obersalzberg above the town on the flank of the Hoher Goll and began extensive renovations on his "Berghof" in the following years. As other top Third Reich figures such as Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Martin Bormann, Heinrich Himmler and Albert Speer began to frequent the area the Party began to purchase and requisition land in
The Mountain of the Cannibal God an orange cream by two native girls for what appears to be a session of honey torture, but instead she is turned into a living goddess. Manolo is tied up and tortured, while the others are eaten. Manolo and Susan eventually escape after enduring the ordeal. The film was shot on location in Sri Lanka. "The Mountain of the Cannibal God" was released in Italy on August 10, 1978. The film was not seen in the US until 1980. The "Monthly Film Bulletin" called it a "spiced up dish of left overs" plot-wise but said the location filming gave it