'Nazi vanity project': Eagle's Nest in Bavarian Alps a symbol of regime's 'conquest of nature'

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Sir Richard Evans, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. The controversy surrounding the fate of Adolf Hitler's Eagle's Nest, the Nazi-era mountaintop complex in the Bavarian Alps, raises profound questions about the relationship between architecture, historical memory and political extremism. At the heart of the debate lies a difficult distinction: preserving...