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
Commission for Organising the Fortified Regions part of the Maginot Line. Commission for Organising the Fortified Regions The Commission for Organizing the Fortified Regions (French: "La Commission d'organisation des régions fortifiées" (CORF)), is a French military organization created on 30September 1927 by the Minister of War Paul Painlevé to study and carry out border fortification. Its creation was not a spontaneous decision but the result of a long and deep reflection on how best to defend the borders of France. The acronym CORF also refers to a type of fortification, be it "ouvrage" (earthwork), bunker, observatory or shelter, whose plans were drawn up by the Commission