Hitler's mountaintop 'Eagle's Nest' goes up in flames | DW News

DW News Video ^ | 10/24/2026 | DW News Video

[Pol-92064]

An overnight fire engulfed Eagle's Nest, a historic Nazi-era site once used by Adolf Hitler in Germany's Bavarian Alps. Firefighters faced difficult conditions battling the flames at the mountaintop location, while one suspect has been taken into temporary custody.

[Pol-92064]

I'm surprised that his hilltop lookout wasn't burnt down during WWII.

[Texas Eagle]

Let me guess. The suspect is a student protesting crumbling schools. Plus, he or she was hormonal.

[Big Red Badger]

“Band of Brothers” had a Segment
On This place, IIRC.

[C210N]

This “fire” is not occurring randomly, or in a vacuum. What caused it? What caused the fire 93 years ago in the Reichstag?

Anybody thinking otherwise, let me know. I have a great deal on a bridge you’ll be interested in. In Brooklyn.

[Hebrews 11:6]

My dad was there with 20th Armored and snagged a rock from the fireplace, one of three souvenirs he liberated. The others were a Mauser, which I fired, and a 155mm casing, which he wanted to turn into a lamp—but which my mom vetoed.

[T-Bird45]

I visited the area during the Cold War when the Armed Forces Recreation Center was running one of the former Nazi hotels as a ski resort known as the General Walker Hotel. You could look up the mountain to see the AdlerHof much further up.

[Paul R.]

Excellent vid of a visit by a history buff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQT1IJ-sR2Y

[Mark17]

I was there in 1981, when I was stationed in Germany. Quite a view.

[mass55th]

"I'm surprised that his hilltop lookout wasn't burnt down during WWII."

Hitler actually disliked the place and rarely went there. Eva Braun used it more often. It was a gift to Hitler on his 50th birthday. The construction was ordered by Martin Boormann, and paid for by the Nazi Party.

If anyone is interested, British historian Dr. Mark Felton combined two of his previous videos on The Eagle's Nest, into one video that lasts 23:03 minutes:

Inside Hitler's Eagle's Nest - Then & Now (COMPLETE SERIES)

[No name given]

And a commie or a mooselimb, maybe both.

[No name given]

Too bad it wasn’t.

[nonliberal]

White smoke has been seen above the Eagle’s Nest indicating a new Hitler has been chosen.

[Menes]

Today, most historians agree that Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch communist, acted alone when he set the fire.

However, for the Nazi leadership, this was a real serendipity: their propaganda stated that “the communists” had done it, thus, they had to be arrested. You know what came next…

[Menes]

Hopefully not 😀

A German Lee Kuan Yew would be appropriate. He would rectify every issue which we have in Germany. Nothing less and nothing more- we could all be happy then.