Hitler's Table Talk

DIETRICH ECKART AND OBERSALZBERG 211
afraid it would clash with the landscape. I was very glad to
notice that, on the contrary, it fitted in very well. I had already
restricted myself for that reason—for, to my taste, it should have
been still bigger.
The house that belonged to Cornelius, Sonnenköpfl, was celebrated.
The Bechsteins wanted me to acquire it. But I set too
much store by the view in the direction of Salzburg, perhaps
out of nostalgia for my little fatherland. Moreover, it's too
warm in summer at Sonnenköpfl. The Berghofhas a truly ideal
situation. How I'd like to be up there! It will be a glorious
moment when we can climb up there again. But how far away
it is, terribly far!
To put it briefly, it was Dietrich Eckart who introduced me to
Obersalzberg. There was a warrant out for his arrest, and we
were seeking to hide him. First of all he'd taken refuge at
Munich, with the Lauböcks. But he couldn't resist the temptation
to telephone right and left. Already by the second day,
he was clamouring that his girl-friend Anna should go and
visit him. "I'm incapable of hiding," he used to say. We decided
to fetch him back to his home. As a precautionary measure,
patrols of ours used to watch the house. Here and there one
could see the silhouette of a policeman sticking up, but they
were too cowardly to embroil themselves with us. Christian
Weber came to see me and tell me about the Büchners of
Obersalzberg, whom I didn't yet know. Weber had been their
paying guest, and he thought it would be just the place for
hiding Dietrich Eckart. The Büchners ran the pension Moritz.
One day Rohm telephoned to me, asking me to go and see
him immediately at the office of our military administration.
There was a "wanted persons" service there that functioned in
parallel with that of the civil police. Rohm told me that an
attempt would be made to arrest Eckart during the night, and
he advised me to take him elsewhere. I'd myself observed that
the house was beginning to be hemmed in by policemen. A
little later in the day I learnt from Rohm that all the roads
round Munich had been barred. "Take him to the English
Garden," he told me. "There you'll find a Reichswehr vehicle
that I'm putting at his disposal." I commented to Rohm that
Eckart would certainly not consent to depart by himself. "So