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Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, famously captured by ‘Band of Brothers,’ deliberately set ablaze

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A 33-year-old German citizen was arrested over the weekend after a fire tore through one of the last architectural relics of Nazism.

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  1. Military Times

    Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, famously captured by ‘Band of Brothers,’ deliberately set ablaze (opens Military Times)

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    A 33-year-old German citizen was arrested over the weekend after a fire tore through one of the last architectural relics of Nazism.

  2. The American Spectator

    Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest and the Danger of Erasing History (opens The American Spectator)

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    Adolph Hitler’s former Bavarian mountain retreat, the Eagle’s Nest, was burned to the ground by an alleged arsonist on October...

  3. The Guardian

    Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest retreat was torched in an arson attack. Should it be rebuilt? (opens The Guardian)

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    With the far right resurgent in Germany, experts are divided as to whether the dictator’s former mountaintop retreat is better restored or left a ruin One of the last structural relics of Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship was conceived to project indomitable power.

  4. The Week

    The row over Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest (opens The Week)

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    Arson attack on mountainside retreat exposes difficulty in dealing with the physical legacy of Germany’s Nazi past

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