GORDON DUFF: MEMORIES OF THE PATTON HOTEL
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior EditorI drive past the old building, a former SS barracks, maybe an R & R center during World War II. American soldiers who served in Europe knew it as the Patton Hotel. All that stands today is an empty shell.
Garmisch, about an hour south of Munich (Munchen with an umlaut), was taken over as very much a part of the United States during the Cold War. The Patton Hotel, opened in 1953, was the gem. Ask any GI who stayed there.
Today, a mile away, the Edelweiss, the new Armed Forces Recreation Center, sitting behind the George Marshall Center for, well, I am not sure what they do there, is an impressive place but lacks the heart of the Patton.
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