# Godwinned at a family dinner **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132 "2011-09-13T03:15:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/21 "2011-09-14T02:06:50Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > That just means it was Godwined in one step. This, and the fact that he was crowing about the fact that I previously lived on a street that could be obscurely linked in some weird way to Hitler. To make things a little clearer the bro is about as far right wing as you can get and I’m a moderate Dem. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/22 "2011-09-14T07:01:47Z")
I didn’t know either, despite going through a big WW2 phase. Then again, I was watching the History Channel. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/23 "2011-09-14T17:18:48Z")
I didn’t know that Hitler’s summer home was called Eagle’s Nest. You’d think it would have had, you know, a German name. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/24 "2011-09-14T18:31:35Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > I didn’t know that Hitler’s summer home was called Eagle’s Nest. You’d think it would have had, you know, a German name. The building is known as the Eagle’s Nest in English. In German, as noted by **Kobal2** , the name is Kehlsteinhaus. (Roughly, Kehlstein Mountain House) ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/25 "2011-09-14T20:26:35Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > The building is known as the Eagle’s Nest in English. In German, as noted by **Kobal2** , the name is Kehlsteinhaus. (Roughly, Kehlstein Mountain House) Yeah, I was being facetious. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/26 "2011-09-14T21:11:41Z")
:smack: > [@PunditLisa](#): > > Yeah, I was being facetious. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/27 "2011-09-15T17:19:54Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I didn’t know either, despite going through a big WW2 phase. Then again, I was watching the History Channel. +1 Certainly I was VERY aware Hitler had a summer place in the mountains. There’s a lot of footage of him there. The name of that place has never seemed important to me, and I know of a lot of other places called “eagle’s nest”. It’s not exactly as distinictive a name as “fuhrerbunker” ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/28 "2011-09-15T19:16:11Z")
We’ve got two places around here that I know of with the Eagle’s Nest name. A bar/lounge and an indoor children’s playground. Neither of which I think anyone has connected with Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/29 "2011-09-15T19:29:32Z")
I was there earlier this summer. I knew about it before hand but I couldn’t tell you how I learned about it. It’s pretty impessive especially from the base of the mountain. We hiked down rather the ride the bus again and that was a nice hike. The crazy thing were all of the people riding their bikes up the trail. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/30 "2011-09-15T20:04:35Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > I was there earlier this summer. I knew about it before hand but I couldn’t tell you how I learned about it.. This is the kind of thing that amazes me about the internet and SD in particular. Someone says something to someone at a barbecue and then BAM someone shows up that’s been there just a couple months ago. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/31 "2011-09-16T01:40:44Z")
> [@sinjin](#): > > Is it some kind of common knowledge that HITLER’s summer home was Eagle Nest? I know only because I used to watch the History Channel quite a bit in the late 90s, and at the time, “Nazi/WWII” was all they played. /Give me a pass, I was only a kid //HC is mostly shit now - mostly ghost/alien/bigfoot shit ///Pawn Stars is the only redeeming show (props to Chumlee) ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/32 "2011-09-16T02:37:45Z")
AHEM! Hitler NEVER LIVED in the Eagle’s Nest. He visited there exactly four times. His home was a short distance away, in Berchtesgarten. That home had a huge window in the front room that was attached to a motor driven lift that raised and lowered the window so he could have an unobstructed view of his beloved Austria. His home was completely destroyed by the German government after the war. Only pieces of the foundation exist today. The post-war government did not want the Nazi fanatics to turn the home into a shrine. The Eagle’s Nest is a tourist destination today. The drive up to it has a vehicle-killing 32 degree slope, and Hitler was driven there in his 12-cylinder Mercedes. Today, specially built buses with heavy duty transmissions and brakes are used to transport the tours to the parking area. There, you walk down a long tunnel to the elevators (made by OTIS for the Third Reich!) which whisk you up to the Eagle’s Nest. I love Berchtesgarten. I think it is one of the most beautiful places in the world. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/33 "2011-09-16T14:23:58Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > His home was completely destroyed by the German government after the war. Only pieces of the foundation exist today. The post-war government did not want the Nazi fanatics to turn the home into a shrine. I am told the only reason the Eagles Nest was not destroyed, was because Hitler had only ever been there a handful of times. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132/34 "2011-09-16T14:40:05Z")
> [@sinjin](#): > > This, and the fact that he was crowing about the fact that I previously lived on a street that could be obscurely linked in some weird way to Hitler. To make things a little clearer the bro is about as far right wing as you can get and I’m a moderate Dem. Next BBQ that they’re expected at you should invite Clint Eastwood. Have him bring a schmeiser. [Problem solved.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdaeBiF__u4&feature=related) 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwinned-at-a-family-dinner/596132.md?page=1)