{"id":87772,"date":"2026-10-24T08:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87772"},"modified":"2026-10-24T08:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:09:35","slug":"fire-destroys-hitlers-eagles-nest-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/fire-destroys-hitlers-eagles-nest-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Destroys Hitler&#8217;s &#8216;Eagle&#8217;s Nest&#8217; Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/60f7449\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5250x3500+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F89%2F55%2F15b78d385db9d860f4bc83fd0d21%2Ff01d651f458841e0b17ea1639337c010\" alt=\"The Kehlsteinhaus on the Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden, which was severely damaged by a fire, Saturday, Oct.24, 2026. ( Jason Tschepljakow\/dpa via AP)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The retreat known as the Eagle\u2019s Nest built for Adolf Hitler in the Bavarian Alps was almost completely destroyed in a fire, and work to extinguish the blaze was still in progress Saturday, authorities said. A suspect was detained.<\/p>\n<p>The local tourism authority said it wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether parts of the building could be salvaged. Police later said it burned down almost completely.\u00a0A fire alarm at the building in the Berchtesgaden district in Germany\u2019s southeastern corner went off at about 9:15 p.m. on Friday, police said in a statement. Firefighters who went to the scene could see the flames as they approached the site, on a cliff 1,834 meters (6,017 feet) above sea level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The retreat known as the Eagle\u2019s Nest built for Adolf Hitler in the Bavarian Alps was almost completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87773,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87772\/revisions\/87773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}