This was not Hitler’s home but a gift from his staff to him.. he was afraid of heights!... his house was halfway down the mountain called “the Berghof” a palatial mansion where he entertained many leaders and dignitaries from around the world. It was tied into a vast bunker system deep in the mountain. It was destroyed completely by Germany after the war to try to erase the memory of Hitler but the Eagles nest remains! My wife and I toured both locations in June of 2019

Awesome construction work. Superb German engineering. Excellent documentary!

How did this footage only get discovered recently? I was there in 1999 and 2001. can you imagine trying to plan and execute a project like this over 3 summers and 2 winters on schedule today?? A masterpiece of organisation and logistics, pre war with no forced labour

Absolutely fascinating! What a pleasure this documentary was to watch. Thanks so much for posting this historical film!!!!

Frightening how more deaths weren't a daily occurrence- The shear amount of manual labor is dizzying . The talents and get up and go is a testament to the skill of all these workmen. Thank You for this terrific footage and well put together documentary. 💥

Thanks to the film I determined that a shovel I found in 2006 at the campsite is from around 1937. In the film there are workers walking up the path to the Kehlsteinhaus (Eaglesnest) with the exact shovels. Nice to know I got a timepiece.

Great documentary. I had two uncles serve under Patton in the 3rd Army. They both came back very changed men. It was not pretty. That said, in a way I wish the Allies would have saved these great masterpieces of work. It was not the Nazi hierarchy that built them, but hard working ordinary German's.

Absolutely stunning architecture. My wife and I had the opportunity to visit this area back in 2017. It was breathtaking to say the least. We are in the process of planning another trip back to the area in the near future!

In the summer of 1997, my unit was the gust of the 222 Gebirgsjager, in Berchesgaden. We climbed every mountain in the area. One day, we went to the Eagle's Nest. We didn't take the elevator though. Nope, we were Mountain Infantry, so we hoofed it up all those switchbacks. Beautiful location.

Was there in 1993. It was very spectacular and unforgetable.

I visited the Eagle's Nest in 1999. The bus ride up to it is the most frightening thing I have ever done in my life. I have a terrible fear of heights. The aerial view at the beginning of this video was even scary to watch, how little space was carved off of that mountain top for the Eagle's Nest.

Regardless of who the construction was for it is an amazing testament to mans ingenuity and hard work. All done by manual labour. Simply incredible! Thank you for posting. I’m subbed.

What a great piece of engineering and architecture. I Would love to visit this place and the surrounding area's, thanks for the video!

I visited the Kehlsteinhaus in 2009 and it's well worth seeing. The views and surrounding countryside are breathtaking. Thankfully visitors are taken up the steep winding road by coaches which by the time they've reached the entrance to the elevator, there is a strong smell of burning clutch so God knows how many they go through each year!

I was there in 1965, when I was ten years old and will never forget it. I also walked the hiking trail that leads up the mountain above the elevation of the building.

This is part of history I did not know. It is outstanding work that went into this project. I saw it in late 1967. Now what it is still Great History.

Terrific documentary. Great footage. Wunderbar!

I have my Grandfathers Original Photos Of That House with Him on the Balconies. Takin in the last few months of the war. Absolutely Amazing. I wish I could go there someday and recreate my photos I have of it. Amazing Documentary. Thank You So Much to who ever posted this. I really appreciate this long lost History.

A ceramic tea pot, cups and saucers "designed" by Hitler were on display in a little diner in the middle of a forest in central Oregon. A certain G.I. of the 101st ran the restaurant with his lovely wife, who served my parents and me lunch as he told us stories of the war, including the capture of Eagle's Nest. There were large picture windows in front of the counter where we enjoyed a view of the green woods and all the birds that came to their feeders. A very beautiful and homey place to eat. That was in 1973. I wonder if it's still there. No doubt he was one of the men recorded on film here looting Hitler's hideout. Good on you, Joe!!

What a great video! Them guys building it probably worked harder in one day than I have in my whole life. Wow! My jaw was on the floor almost the whole video. thanks for posting!

Fascinating, wish I had seen this before I visited the Eagles Nest. My stay at Zum Turken was a highlight I’ll never forget - a little piece of the 50’s.

Amazing! Thanks for bringing us this great historical footage!

The voiceover artist is terrific. Great job! I visited the Haus in Oct 2022 and it certainly exceeded expectations, although there was no tour guide at that time to describe the different rooms as this film has done. The bus drive up there on the one-lane road the driver was a bit of a maniac the way he drove that road! A film director associate of mine, the late Ulli Lommel, made a semi-documentary in 1995 derived from Eva Braun's diary which used some exclusive color footage from the Kehlsteinhaus that I did not see here. interestingly, the bus to the top was the ONLY place in my 2022 Europe trip to 5 countries where I was required to wear a covid mask.

I spent a bit of my teenage years doing stone and brick masonry. I can't even comprehend the work they had to do for this. It's so impressive. Just manufacturing and transporting material. One hell of a birthday gift!

Finally a ww2 era documentary with decent background music with the perfect volume. Also, whenever i watch a documentary about Germany in the 1930s/40s i cant help but start to think about if only the people who are running the country focused more on stuff like this (beautiful tourism) and didn’t do the crimes against humanity they committed and war was avoided then Germany would’ve been the #1 country in the world. It’s unfortunate that humans can’t do any good without terrorizing it.

A truly excellent video and history of the building of this place.

The views over Lake Konigssee are stunning, well worth driving to the Lake, and enjoy a boat trip to Kirche St. Bartholoma for lunch. Then head off to Lake Obersee the smaller Lake with reflections of the mountain that are stunning.

Very nice video, great narration with identifying of some of major players of the times.Thank you for posting this

After viewing so many WWII documentaries, many over and over, this is really special and unique.Man has the propensity for much creativity and for so much evil.Thanks for a remarkable .documentary.

Most excellent. The subject matter is extraordinary, made even better with the excellent scripting, music and edit. Amazing.

I was there a few years ago, the view is incredible. The food at the restaurant is your basic sausage and beer. The ride in the elevator was sort of creepy because the only thing changed, according to the tour guide, was the light bulbs.

Love the style of this docco. Captivating.

Astonishingly beautul! I actually got slightly dizzy looking at the opening of this video.

simply incredible account of an engineering marvel

Family friend went there in 2019 and took lots of pictures to show me. Would love to visit it one day.

When I was in Berchtesgaden in November 2022 the hotel I was in was under the mountain where the Eagle's Nest was located and I could see it from the window of the hotel looking up. I had not gone up there because it closed for the season. But the view of the mountains there is just breathtaking.

I always think of the millions of people who died in world war two, particularly all the soldiers in the east, Russian and German. When I watch old films like this from the thirties ii always think, " ok they were all alive at this point, Stalingrad Peleliu, Okinawa, the Bulge, Britain, it hadn't happened yet!" Why oh why? Such a great sadness for our people. I mean the earth's people. I feel it in these old movies. If only...

This is a very long comment; but if you have read it, you will be one of the very few English-speaking people who understand the difference between the Berghof, the Kehlsteinhaus, and the Alderhorst; and will know that the place people currently visit in Berchtesgaden called the "Eagle's Nest" is really just called that to exploit confused tourists. The Kehlsteinnhaus was NOT the "Eagle's Nest." People who try publish on World War Two who do not read German and/or study enough source documents often make this mistake. Currently, the tourist industry at Berchtesgaden capitalizes on this by operating a cafe/restaurant called "Eagle's Nest" in the Kehlsteinhaus. But this is a POST-WAR phenomenon! "Kehlsteinhaus" was NOT a residence or headquarters of Adolf Hitler, although it was part of the Berchtesgaden complex that included his residence called the "Berghof." It was like a meeting hall, and high Party functionaries often used it when the Fuehrer was at the Berghof. The Berghof itself no longer exists except as a very partial ruin; it was destroyed to prevent it from becoming a shrine, since it was Hitler's favorite residence. Nonetheless many thousands of confused American tourists who have been to the Kehlsteinhaus are under the misunderstanding that they have visited HItler's residence in the Alps, in large part because of the name of the cafe. HItler DID have a headquarters called "Eagle's Nest" ("Alderhorst"). It was not located in the Alps of Bavaria, but rather at Schloss Kransberg near the village of Ziegenberg in the Taunus Mountains of Hesse. These are rather less spectacular mountains than the Alps and more centrally located in Germany. "Alderhorst" was one of the first Headquarters complexes built for Hitler; he didn't use it much at first, although he was supposed to use it when the German invasion of Britain, "Sealion," took place. Hitler DID use the Eagle's Nest/Alderhorst to direct the complex of offensives known as "Wacht am Rhein" that triggered the Battle of the Bulge/Ardennes Counteroffensive late in the war, in December of 1944. I'm less certain about this part, but as far as I can remember, when Hitler left Alderhorst/Schloss Kransberg on January 16, 1945, after Wacht am Rhein had failed, he went to the Reichskanzrei in Berlin and never left, dying there in the Fuehrerbunker at the end of April.

Thank you! My Father was there in 1945, I have a rough map of the layout of all the buildings that was printed for the troops going there in a hurry.

Been there, quite an experience! View, spectacular!

Excellent craftsmanship and I like the atmosphere, but hard times were coming closer for Germany. So sad.

Such a beautiful place. Thank you for the upload

I have been there twice. Outstanding video!

Just found your channel great video I definitely subscribed thanks for sharing

This is an amazingly detailed and beautiful story that I have been interested in for many, many years! Simply incredible!

Just an incredable story and a true accomplishment by the germen people

I have 100% of the content on this channel and all I can say is … bravo!

Good documentary! The craftsmanship is astounding! Wasn't used much though! Feigelein married Eva Braun's sister there and Mussolini gifted an Italian marble fireplace.

Wow! Fantastic overview. Thanks. I visited this historic site. It is now a restaurant. This is a must see.

Yes new stuff , very good and thanks ❤️👍😉

A fascinating historical documentary. From Australia many thanks for posting.

That has to be a real pain in the Winter months esp downhill driving that winding road!

What incredible rare footage. Thank you.

Shame that the American soldier's completely looted the property of everything, even chipping off parts of the beautiful marble fireplace.

Beautiful video... Thank you

It was the most iconic place I ever visited. The views from Eagles Nest was absolutely amazing and I felt honored to be there where such infamous leaders of the Third Reich had been.

Awesome Video which also reflected Germen civil engineering and at the same time rare film on the eagle nest

Great documentary,It is amazing these men were able to construct al lof this under such harsh conditions

Beautiful documentary of a truly impossible feat of engineering. Bravo to all those involved !

Awesome... Thankyou.. Wow. What a great upload

An extraordinary gift from Humankind to the List of magnificent creations for all to enjoy and appreciate on the journey of Planet Earth.

German engineering, technology and crafts was far ahead of any other nation.

A marvelous piece of Engineering and Craftsmanship! Most amazing is when you walk around the area there are no fences. You go on your own risk, in some locations one wrong step can lead to a free fall. How deep? Depends where you stand. Be careful 😉☺️.

This slightly echoed music somehow is in keeping with the chilly snow scenes. It makes me cold to look at the snow, and feel chilly when I HEAR THIS MUSIC! Quite frankly it's scary!

A spectacular building with amazing views and film of the construction but what ever did it cost to build ?

An amazing feet of engineering those brave men worked so hard in tough conditions

I visited this place few years ago and my right ear wouldn't pop for 24 hours after!...its bloody high!

Amazing. Hats off to all the people involved in the construction especially the hands on workers.

German engineering at its best

Uncle A. Only frequented the "eagles nest " 14 times

Outstanding KZfaq channel of yours. Thank you for sharing. God bless 🙏

What an amazing video, that construction was impressive, I had no idea that that building still existed as there was so much destruction, especially anything related with Hitler. I would have thought it would have been high on the list of places to bomb, i'm very glad it wasn't, it is now on my bucket list of places to visit in Germany when I finally get there, history should be enjoyed by everyone.

I walked down the road that the buses come up with another GI in 1984. We dodged a lot of buses in the tunnels and finally started cutting through the woods about 2/3 of the way down. We found 2 caves on the mountain and some side tunnels in the main road tunnels but we had no lamps just 1 Bic lighter, so no exploring.

Hello BegaFilm, i really love your videos. Im a bit courious about the music track at the beginning of this video, do you know who made it and what it is called ?

Wow Great Video

Unbeknownst to the film crew, soldiers of the 101st Airborne were greeted at the Eagle's Nests by troops of the French 2nd Armored Division, who had scaled the mountain on the night of May 4-5. The French still have the pictures to prove it. However, they were politely asked to leave before the arrival of Gen. Maxwell Taylor, commander of the 101st. Unfortunately, the 101st had held up its reconnaissance of the Eagle's Nest until May 5, believing they might encounter fierce resistance from a rumored SS Panzer regiment said to be Hitler's personal guard. That allowed the French to slip in and take the Eagle's Nest, as the 2nd Armored Division had already met the staff of the Eagle's Nest in Bechtesgarden and had been informed that all of the troops in the area had surrendered. Much to the chagrin of Dwight Eisenhower, the Nazis had never followed through on plans to make the Obersalzburg into a "final stand-style" redoubt. Hitler had wanted the area to be a place of relaxation and the only military facilities belonged to guard posts and communications stations that were used when Hitler was in residence. In fact, there weren't any real military facilities such as air bases or army depots anywhere in the vicinity.

I been there twice, outstanding project. Very amazing

I was there Hotel General Walker (Obersalzberg ) Eagles Nest stationed at Bitburg AFB '79-'83,

The soundtrack for this documentary is perfect

Very interesting video ,most enjoyable thank you

100 years ago they built this in under 5 years in Melbourne ring road around the city has been under construction for nearly 10 years still not finished amazing ability of European people

Excellent presentation. Fantastic film and pictures of the construction and, naturally, the finished product being enjoyed by Hitler and his entourage.

I was there in june 2023. It was breathtaking. I duff my hat to all those who participated in the construction work.

thank you special detail video together of building especially in time as hope stand more many years to come as part history

Such amazing precision.

Monumental effort on construction memorable effort of cine production and photography

Excellent video documentary. I appreciate it greatly! Danke!

The workers really worked hard and endlessly with perfection. Bless them all

I visited the Eagles Nest in 1985. Two things stood out. First was the view. On a clear day you can see for miles. The second is the elevator. The seats were gone and the sides and ceiling appeared to be a polished brass. Also, the drive up in a tour bus was very interesting.

Very, very interesting and largely documented. As usually. I've been said (by a french soldier having known this period) that the first to go to the Berghof was the 2e DB (Armoured Division), 2nd French Army, Général Leclerc and only after, the famous 101A. And, in fact there are graffitis on the walls of the undergrounds mentionning "2e DB, initials date 5/5/1945. In fact, he told they were in competition with americans to be the first! Any help from you to know the truth? Thanks in advance.

great vid

Great footage

Been there. Lovely.

I was there in October 2016, beautiful place and I love the History! Was covered in snow and it's how I will always remember it until I return. 😍

My Favorite Video on KZfaq

I went there in 2011. Beautiful countryside

I was there in 62, incredible!

All of this for a tea house...unbelievable...German Engineering. Hitler having a Swastika removed cannot be overlooked, he was also afraid of heights. I am as well and this was hard to watch, but this was incredible and appreciate the rare footage. People aren't actually afraid of heights per say, it's falling from them.

What a beautiful voice..so soothing. Who is the narrater ?

Great stuff.