Hotel to Open at Hitler's Alpine Retreat

[Rose Siding]

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 German Alp 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. In addition, the state of Bavaria kept ownership of the land and set the condition that the hotel be designed for affluent tourists -- precautions designed to help keep out neo-Nazis.

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[benburch]

1. It is true...

Most Nazis I know (and there are a lot around here) are piss-poor crackers.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. The Hotel Hitler... nice... real nice...

I bet I know what uniform the bell captain will be wearing...

[murray hill farm]

3. oh yes...sounds so delightful!

Come to hotel hitler...and bask in the historical bad karma!

[Elidor]

4. No word on whether they'll stage a production of The Producers

[Anakin Skywalker]

5. How Do You Prove Affluence?

The sick and ironic thing is that neo-Nazis like some Freeps/Rethugs can actually go just because they've got the Benjamins (converted to Deutschmarks, of course).

[dxdem]

6. I've been there.

The ride up the mountain is...well...scary. Small road, big bus.

[stillcool]

7. Just in time for Herr *s trip! n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

8. Hey! Hitler's grandson is on the Daily Show as we speak!

"Ted" Hitler... that's German, bitch!