European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Hitler feeding a tame Deer at his Home. A photo .4. Edelweiss Blossom adorns across on a Mountaintop near the Eagle s a est. Obe Salzberg Hiti Nurul Hunt / fic 5/ he hugs up f ,000 Fri t Luw aril lilt top Tif sch Isle in Mountain to inc . S Nusl some Prelly bin Shols i lint up hire with some big plans fur tin Widd. His is is close o he Avon is the y Over la is the inn 1 i " " inc bombs Nissi a and Lei one lilt1 americans whoa i isl wante d to l Lov it the rest of the1 Way up to kingdom tome1, Illow Dlo slay in oni1 piece. Simm from .1 distance perched daringly on .1 Mountain Ridge seems a Liny tilt Enild is nil inc nose spinning in Clouds there Ore limes Spee Lilly in llu1 wild colors of Sundown when the nest seems 10 be already Oul in the e louds floating. All of it Llu building of the Alpine Road winding like a Mountain Snake up through live tunnels and the solid Low ceiling cd Granite Structure on the precipice was no Small masterpiece of construction in the late 1030s, when the nose was built As a present for the his scr on his 50th birthday. 1 he lower entrant e passer through double doors of solid Brona into a 400-foot Long Tunnel still there built through Rock into the Interior of the Mountain. I he Tunnel Lerl loan elevator still working climbed another -100 feel upward. Accounts disagree bul i Liller s liking or the High perched place which was Snow bound much of the year seemed lukewarm Al Best indeed according to one close i Lillor watcher his Valet the dauntless visitors ride if ornate elevator that once carried Hitler to the Ante s nest. of earthshaking Battles was less than intrepid when it c aim to his i Alc s nest because of palpitations and shortness of breath brought on by the c Hange in Altitude in was said the i Ulirch disliked the place from the beginning. Nor did he c arc Lor the twisty Road trip upward. The Greal dictator also Leared the elevator Cable might be Struc k by lightning while i was on the Way up or Down and also was Utas about he elevator itself Bee Ause of his c ind inc is. Thus to assist the would be master of inc world to master Riding in elevators a Large expensive Cle Valur of polished brass was built with venetian mirrors that made it look As if he were ascending in a Small ballroom. Oiler than Iii meetings with the world s High and mighty i would go up Soni Elimas to please i a Loraun his housekeeper Secretary mystics Sand win or two Days who liked the nest in the c louds. I Liller s Bright boy. Martin Bormann sail to be a generally despised Bory. Forever looking for ways to ingratiate inns cell with his i Sihrer was the one who the Nesi built Anil was Ospe Nally fond of inn up where the Eagle Lew at Loam until the British Iii a to bomb it h some accounts he lot. And on our , Sicin. To the hiring strains of an s Ore Helra had lobe Vir Ualk c Arriel from the Iii so Anil poured into his c a. I Hole were several smaller rooms in the nest inc lulling Braun s Lea room whore she spool a lol of time crocheting. But the focus of the place was a Large conference room will a massive fireplace of red Maible and Brone Hies a gift of Mussolini Ruc h i Hippe d Al by souvenir Hunters after the War .1 1.1100-Pound oni ii Al Carpel from imperil a i Hirohito of Japan Souve Nir Hunters would Cut it up and pc arc l it Awa in Small pie pcs and five big picture windows Trout which cascaded the View fit for the gods and or e Onte inflating the e on curing of the Trodd i Heller was fond of guests to the windows Loga a out upon that Manilici it , and watch their fare s Feir reaction. It was it i Rone h ambassador i Rani ols i one it who lust exclaimed that in was like an Eagle s nose and the name c aught on. I Cince t apparently did t. K turning to i Tarn e Mil Long before All hell broke Loose on the world the ambassador i Poincel that the i Fuhrer allowed me to ask him questions Lor Wei hours. I i answer d candidly sine merely on pablum i not eel icy Shook hands warmly. I my even the Peich of the e Al Chowe or the in Aisig Hatcil i Chri r could t sec1 it All. Ii in his grand Umo ii he saw inc ire and Thunder he was c Mankind he was Blind to the storm gathering in the louds by Viand the mountains that would blow away his a Reich he lore the Cement drive d. I he la to s Nusl Herc Heads of slate Mel in a igbo powwow is a restaurant with big windows inc be Days a place e Iron which tourists gae and snap pre la Pic lines just a Ilace to look Oul wonder. Stiars Magazine october 5, 1989
