'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.