Hey welcome to Viral History and welcome to
the Eagle's Nest, so I'm at Berchtesgaden
south-east Germany near the Austrian
border and I'm at the location of Adolf
Hitler's wartime headquarters complex.
The Eagle's Nest or the
kehlsteinhaus, sits atop a rocky outcrop
above the Obersalzberg near the town of
Berchtesgaden in the German Bavarian
Alps.
The building is now a restaurant, but from
1937 to 1945, it was part of a complex of
buildings owned by the German National
Socialist Party on the Nazis and was
used by its leaders to plan strategy and
entertain important visitors, such as
British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain and Italian dictator Benito
Mussolini. This red marble fireplace was
probably a gift made to Hitler by
Mussolini. The Eagle's Nest stands at
1600 meters and it took 3,800 locals
thirteen months to build, between 1937
and 1938 and the complex includes a
series of tunnels leading to bunkers
under the mountain. Other buildings, such
as the Berghoff, were destroyed by Allied
bombing towards the end of the war, but
the Eagle's Nest itself remained
undamaged and most of the fabric of the
structure is original.
There's still some confusion as to which
allied unit were the first one up this
country road and the first to capture
the eagle's nest, in the book 'Band of
Brothers', Easy Company of the hundred and
first Airborne, say they were the first
up these roads and the first to enter
the Eagle's Nest!
I do find it profoundly ironic, that
here, in one of the most beautiful locations
in Europe, evil minds met and plans were
made that would have catastrophic
consequences for the entire world; to
wage a truly global war and to commit
mass-murder on an industrial scale.
Seventy years on, it still doesn't really
make much sense.
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