 Raised for the first time at the Bendlerstraße Building (Wehrmacht Headquarters) in Berlin on 7 November 1935, it was taken down for the last time by British occupation forces after the arrest of the Dönitz Government at the Naval Academy Mürwik in Flensburg-Mürwik, Germany, on 23 May 1945.In his book, "Inside the Third Reich", Albert Speer states that "in only two other designs did he (Adolf Hitler) execute the same care as he did his Obersalzberg house