New site for EuroSub Devival
Correspondent:: "Ellis Dee"
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:17:27 -0500
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BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- 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.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/02/17/hitler.retreat.ap/index.html
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0"
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 06:20:29 -0700
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Ellis Dee wrote:
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> BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- 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.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/02/17/hitler.retreat.ap/index.html
Actually, it's a good idea, except there are a few problems.
The first is that it's sort of small, so it won't have too
many rooms. Second is that the road going up the mountain
is very narrow, too steep, and prone to snow and ice. The
concrete bunker underneath was never finished, so it's not
that impressive--just walls and some crumbling excavation.
I stayed at the US Army General Walker(?) Hotel, which was
the SS Division Adolf Hitler's (his bodyguard's) barracks
nearby, and it was top notch. The rooms were a bit spartan,
but the common areas were really gorgeous. And you're
surrounded by the Alps, with grassy farmland in between.
It serves the nearby Garmisch-Partenkirschen recreational
area, a first class alpine ski resort in winter and great
golfing in summer. The *off* season is summer, which is
drop-dead beautiful, and seems insane to those of us who
are not ski freaks.
That part of Bavaria really feels underpopulated, and its
biggest obvious cultural trait is that they carve dead
trees and big branches into astoundingly tacky, Disney-
like goofy monsters, which they then paint in gaudy colors,
varnish and put in their front yards. (I think it's a
religious thing.)
And yes, there are still a lot of men who regularly wear
lederhosen. But being a small-town area, there is not a
whole lot of city recreation around other than skiing and
golfing. Just a few local gasthauses and some shopping.
--
"We're going to take things away from
you on behalf of the common good."
-- Hillary Clinton
Correspondent:: "krustymadfaker"
Date: 18 Feb 2005 08:17:40 -0800
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Well fuck it we only want the bottom part for the bloody Arnold Palmer
Head Launching rituals. We're going to build on top and up!!