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From Hitler's retreat to luxury hotel
Associated Press
Published February 20, 2005
BERLIN - A new luxury hotel will open next month on the site of Adolf Hitler's Alpine retreat, which served as a part-time seat of government where he and other Nazi leaders often met to plan Germany's assault on Europe and the Holocaust.
The new hotel, the Intercontinental Resort Berchtesgaden, will open on the Obersalzberg mountaintop to guests on March 1, the Bavarian Finance Ministry said Thursday.
The decision to build a hotel on the site above the town of Berchtesgaden angered many Jewish groups.
Officials have tried to address their concerns with a documentation center opened in 1999 to detail the area's Nazi past.
When launching the project in 2001, officials said the hotel would include 138 rooms and would reconnect the site with a 19th-century tourism tradition.
The site, about 60 miles southeast of Munich, included a number of buildings and bunkers that were designed as Hitler's Alpine fortress. Nearby is Kehlstein peak, with a restaurant known as Eagle's Nest, also once used by Hitler.
Most of the Obersalzberg buildings were destroyed by Allied bombers in 1945.
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