BerchtesgadenPolice detained a 33-year-old as the Eagle’s Nest burned.
The Nazi-era guest house drew 350,000 visitors a year, Bavarian authorities say, and has held a Nazi-history exhibition since 1952.
About 200 firefighters fought the blaze from 9:50 pm Friday through rain, snow and wind, and nobody has entered the building.
Prosecutor Rainer Vietze says arson looks likely and the man is provisionally held in psychiatric care.
Bavaria’s interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, says the site will not be left in ruins.
How each outlet framed it
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- The New York Times
- reports the 6,000-foot site as probably unsalvageable and notes the arson question remains open under investigation
- NDTV
- foregrounds the suspect's psychiatric-problem profile and the 350,000 annual visitor count to frame the site's loss
- Yahoo News
- quotes Bild's police source that the building 'could probably not be saved' and notes Hitler's nickname 'Hitler's Tea House'
Sources: The New York Times, NDTV, Yahoo News