Arrest made after fire at Hitler's mountaintop Eagle's Nest retreat

Around 200 emergency personnel are deployed to fight the blaze at the Nazi dictator's Alpine residence in Germany. The Eagle's Nest was still on fire early on Saturday Police in the southern German state of Bavaria have detained a suspect during a fire at Adolf Hitler's Alpine mountain retreat, the Kehlsteinhaus, also known as the Eagle's Nest. Dispatchers in Traunstein received a fire alarm from the building at 21:15 local time (19:15 GMT) on Friday and firefighters found it engulfed in flames. Difficult terrain was hindering efforts to extinguish the blaze and it was still burning early on Saturday, police said, with some 200 emergency personnel deployed. There were no reports of injuries.

The retreat, above the town of Berchtesgaden, was one of several buildings in the area used by the Nazi dictator and his entourage during World War Two. Hitler and top Nazi officials used his nearby Berghof residence to plan the invasion of the USSR in 1941 and the whole complex was considered one of his headquarters. He also used the area as a backdrop for propaganda films portraying him as a lover of animals and nature. A criminal investigation is under way to determine whether the suspect is connected to the fire. Completed by the Nazis in 1938, the Eagle's Nest, which sits at an elevation of