The Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria was founded on August 1, 1978 and attracts 1.5 million visitors a year. Its landmark is the 2713 meter high Watzmann mountain, at the foot of which the ...

About 100 km south of Munich is the charming town of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. Surrounded by bucolic countryside, it also has a dark and infamous—yet fascinating—past. We drove a steep ...

Tucked away in the Bavarian Alps near Austria, Berchtesgaden is a stunning town with a complex and compelling past. Originally a favorite getaway for Bavarian royalty, it became globally significant ...

Berchtesgaden is a charming town in Bavaria, located in the scenic German Alps close to Austria. It once served as a royal retreat and rose to prominence when Adolf Hitler made it his summer residence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hitler's former holiday home, the so-called Eagle's Nest, is now a memorial with a view out of the Berchtesgaden mountains.

During World War II, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi cronies walked the mountain paths around the Hinterbrand Lodge plotting world domination. Sixty-three years later U.S. servicemembers and their families ...