Arrest made after fire at Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat
Around 200 emergency personnel are deployed to fight the blaze at the Nazi dictator's Alpine residence in Germany.
**Arrest made after fire at Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat**
The Eagle's Nest was still burning early on Saturday
Police in Bavaria, in southern Germany, have taken a suspect into custody in connection with a fire at Adolf Hitler's Alpine mountain retreat, the Kehlsteinhaus, also called the Eagle's Nest.
At 21:15 on Friday, dispatchers in Traunstein received a fire alert from the building, and firefighters arrived to find it engulfed in flames.
Police said the rugged terrain was making it hard to bring the blaze under control, and it was still burning early on Saturday, with about 200 emergency workers deployed. No injuries were reported.
The Nazi dictator used the retreat, which is located above the town of Berchtesgaden, as a part-time government seat and met commanders there to plan the 1941 invasion of the USSR.
A criminal investigation is now under way to determine whether the suspect is linked to the fire.
Hitler also used the area as a setting for propaganda films that depicted him as a lover of animals and nature.
Built by the Nazis in 1938, the Eagle's Nest survived destruction after their defeat in 1945.
It has since become a popular tourist attraction and contains a mountain inn.
, it is "also a cautionary reminder of the abysses of the inhumane Nazi dictatorship".
During World War Two, Hitler and his followers were responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people, including the mass murder of European Jews.