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Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Breaking News
September 2, 2011

'Eagle's Nest' cafe becomes surprise tourist attraction with 300,000 visitors in a year


The dark allure of Adolf Hitler has turned his tea house at the top of a Bavarian mountain into one of the most visited sites in Germany.

Tourism authorities announced that over 300,000 people visited the retreat on the peak of the Kehlstein mountain which was built for him as a 50th birthday gift by Nazi party secretary Martin Bormann in 1939. 

This is nearly 30,000 up on last year.

Although Hitler's Berghof home on the mountain was destroyed by the Allies in bombing raids and after WW2, the tea house survived to become a tourism magnet in peacetime....

Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)