Work begins to turn Hitler's high command into golf resort
Work begins this month to turn an Alpine Third Reich retreat in southern Germany into a luxury golf resort.
Hermann Goering's Summer house will become a 140-bed hotel at the Eagle's Nest site in Bavaria. The work will cost £45m.
The site, where Hitler planned Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, was used by the Americans as a training camp in the post-War period. It was handed back to Germany six years ago.
The American Interconti group, who bought the site in 1998, are working with the German Bayerische Landesbank on the project.
Kurt Faltlhauser, finance minister of Bavaria state, said: "It's a very sensitive place, but it's not a victims' place like Auschwitz, but a place where the perpetrators were, where the Nazi leaders built and celebrated while the rest of the world around them lay broken in pieces."
An information centre detailing the horrors of the Third Reich was installed at the nearby mountainside resort of Obersalzburg in 1999.
