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Suspect arrested over fire at Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ retreat in Bavaria

24 October 2026 at 15:28

About 200 firefighters deployed to tackle blaze at former Nazi mountain retreat in remote part of southern Germany

Police have arrested a 33-year-old German citizen after a fire ripped through Adolf Hitler’s former mountain retreat in Bavaria, leaving the historic Nazi meeting place – known as the Eagle’s Nest – largely destroyed.

About 200 firefighters were deployed on Friday night to tackle the blaze at the Nazi dictator’s remote, purpose-built Kehlsteinhaus residence, a protected building on the peak of Obersalzberg in southern Germany.

Nazi Ahnenerbe Organization Made More Than 200 Exact Copies of Scandinavian Bronze Age Rock Art: What Were the Casts For?

LBV Magazine English Edition

By: Guillermo Carvajal

3 September 2026 at 16:37

In the 1930s, the German Nazi regime launched an ambitious archaeological research program with a clear goal: to prove that Germanic culture was the oldest and most superior in the world. To achieve this, the organization known as Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Heritage) sent two expeditions to Scandinavia with the mission of making plaster casts of the […]