The Sound of Music (film) Nazis, which would not have been possible; Salzburg is over two hundred miles from Switzerland. The von Trapp villa, however, was only a few kilometers from the Austria–Germany border, and the final scene shows the family hiking on the Obersalzberg near the German town of Berchtesgaden, within sight of Adolf Hitler's Kehlsteinhaus Eagle's Nest retreat. In reality, the family simply walked to the local train station and boarded a train to Italy. Although Georg was an ethnic German-Austrian, he was also an Italian citizen, having been born in the Dalmatian city of Zadar, which at that time was part of
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