BERLIN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Firefighters battled for hours to contain a blaze ​that engulfed the former Nazi guest house ‌known as "The Eagle's Nest" in southern Germany, while police investigated the cause after detaining a man near the ​scene, authorities said on Saturday.

Around 200 ​firefighters and emergency workers near Berchtesgaden in Bavaria were ⁠battling the flames after the building, known ​as the Kehlsteinhaus, caught fire on Friday, police ​said.

Built in 1938 as a guest house for Nazi officials and their guests, the building sits in a spectacular Alpine ​setting above Berchtesgaden. Adolf Hitler used it occasionally, earning it ​the nickname "Hitler's Tea House". It is separate from his ‌nearby ⁠summer residence, the Berghof.

Bild newspaper quoted a police spokesperson as saying the building, preserved after World War Two as a historical monument linked to the Nazi era, had ​been so ​badly damaged ⁠that it "could probably not be saved".

Rare piece of good news.

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire....

Should have been demolished after the war. Hopefully its damaged enough they will need to tear it down now.

Why is this a bad thing? I'll celebrate the White House burning down.

Oh Canada!

Oh no, one fewer shines for neo-Nazis to worship at!

Let the motherfucker burn. Burn.

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With the current occupants in it, HELL yea!

Oh no...

...anyway.

Damned conservation laws.

Let that motherfucker buuurn.

Burn it some more.

What a shame no Nazis were hurt in the blaze.

Nah, neoNazis can still worship at the White House

I dunno y'all, as much as I hate nazis, historical places like this, as fucked up as they might be, should probably be preserved to remind us what not to do. History that is forgotten is doomed to be repeated and whatnot.

Of course, if it was in fact still active, my opinion would likely change.

There are plenty of good monuments and memorials and museums about the horrors of the Nazi regime. I don't know if a place that had become a literal Nazi pilgrimage needed to be preserved.

Pretty sure that should be. "God save the King!"

85 years too late.

Perhaps technically lol. Either way I hear Canada has the experience.

r/myjokebutworse

Maybe a natural wildfire can consume the Berghof next.

I read that as "Elon Musk's House Burned Down, Joyous Crowds Gather in Harmonic Unity"