I must assure readers that I do not share any sympathies with Nazism – it is the history that fascinates me. The Nazis exploited many historical legends including the one about Hyperborea, which was a land of the immortals. The Nazis had an esoteric – occult ideology with beliefs in a Super Man, Hollow Earth, one thousand-year Third Reich, and they delved, too, into many other ancient myths including Shambhala.

The eagle, the symbol of Germany, is one of the oldest Europe’s symbols. After seeing a big portrait of Hitler in the Documentation Center in Obersalzberg, I noticed that his moustache bears a resemblance to this bird – it consists of three parts, the left and the right wing stretched from the eagle’s (moustache’s) corpus in the middle. The Hitler’s Nest is therefore the Eagle’s Nest. Thousands of visitors come here every day to relish this captivating construction of the Third Reich.

The Eagle’s Nest, or Kehlsteinhaus in German, is a bizarre construction that was built as a Hitler’s teahouse and an unparalleled high-mountain vista on the tip of the Kehlstein Mountain 1834 meters (6148 feet) above the see level and above Berchtesgaden, a cute little German city in Bavaria. Adolf Hitler received this vista on the occasion of his 50th birthday on April 20, 1939, although it had been finished a year earlier (in 1938).

Obersalzberg, where Nazi officials had their superhuman residencies and bunkers, is a mountainous region just a few miles above Berchtesgaden. Specially adjusted buses go from Obersalzberg up the serpentine road through five tunnels and climb up almost at the top of the Kehlstein Mountain.

When you look down out of a window of these special buses going up the dangerous serpentine road, you will see a big precipice and you will know for sure that any collision may bring the bus some few hundred meters down. The road is therefore closed for any public access. Falling into the precipice is your undisputable journey to death. To stand out the pain of such a perilous road, the buses have specially adapted engines and remade transmission and breaking systems. All tourists on their way up must sit in the bus. The buses operate only in the summer. However, no accident has occurred since the Kehlsteinhaus was opened to the public.

You take one of these buses at a separate bus-parking place in Obersalzberg. Your departure time is marked on the ticket. The buses leave the lower parking place at: 9.20, 9.24, 10.10, 10.35, 11.00, 11.25, 11.50, 12.15, 12.40, 13.05, 13.30, 13.55, 14.20, 14.45, 15.10, 15.35, and 16.00 (the last bus).

After they ascent the serpentine road, which ends some 800 meters higher above Obersalzberg, you will arrive at a place with a scenic view – the Kehlstein Mountain bus arrival/departure area, or an upper parking place, where you must mark your ticket with the expected return time. If you do not plan to eat anything in the restaurant on the top of the mountain, staying one hour there is enough. Then you must enter the 124-meter long tunnel at the end of which is a special Nazi brass elevator, which will take you up on the top through a 124-meter shaft in the mountain rock onto the Kehlsteinhaus vista and the Kehlsteinhaus restaurant.

The lift runs on Nazi technologies – the engine and telephone are from World War II. They work surprisingly very well because Nazi ideologists expected that the Third Reich would last one thousand years. The quality of the work is palpable. Going 41 seconds up through the rock in the lift is a little apprehensive experience, but worth the worries if you counterbalance them with the spectacular view from the top where you will see the Untersberg mountain mass and the Watzmann Mountain (the third highest mountain in Germany with 2,713 meters; the highest mountain in Germany is Zugspitze with 2,962 meters; Hochwanner is the second highest peak with 2,746 meters). If you have a nice weather like I had, you will also see Salzburg, a Mozart’s birthplace, and Königsee, a dazzling 200-meter deep lake surrounded by 2000-meter high alpine rocks.

The Documentation Center (a matchless museum of the Nazi history) was established after the year 1995 when the US Administration gave Obersalzberg back to the Bavarian Government. Till then Obersalzberg had served as a recreational area for US soldiers that had stayed in Germany after the end of World War II. However, Americans gave the Eagle’s Nest to the Bavarian Government much earlier. The allied bombing at the end of World War II did not damage the Eagle’s Nest and thanks to the intervention of former Governor Jacob, the Kehlsteinhaus was spared from being blown up after the war. In 1960, the Bavarian government regained control of the construction and since then it has stayed in the hands of a trust that ensures that all proceeds go to charity.

Unfortunately, many people do not know much about the Nazi occult beliefs. In his monologue on February 2, 1942, Hitler said that his residence in Obersalzberg – Berghof, was “Gralsburg”. This indicates a certain connection to the Holy Grail and the Templars. Just a few days before the end of war some local people reported seeing strange SS convoys that headed toward the Zillertal Alps (a mountain range on the Austrian and Italian border) where they, on their way to the Schleigeiss Glacier, allegedly buried some boxes deep in the ice somewhere near a precipice. Some esoteric authors write that the Holy Grail is here.

The buses to the Kehlsteinhaus depart from a parking place near the Obersalzberg’s Documentation Center, which stands on the ruins (all Obersalzberg was bombed at the end of World War II) of a Martin Bormann’s house. Martin Bormann was a high Nazi official who organized the construction of the Eagle’s Nest. Many bunkers are here. If you buy a ticket to the museum, some of these bunkers are accessible. The ruins of Berghof, the Hitler’s residence, can be seen after a five-minute walk going to the left when coming out of the main entrance of the Documentation Center.

The Berchtesgaden’s surroundings conceal many mysteries; few of them are associated with the Untersberg mountain mass between Berchtesgaden and Salzburg. The Untersberg is a source of otherworldly legends about underground people and dwarfs. The Templars had allegedly built their secret temple for goddess Isais here and Men of the Black Stone (DHvSS – Die Herren vom Schwarzen Stein), a Germany’s secret society, allegedly organized secret meetings here. Another mystery of Berchtesgaden is a magnetic anomaly, which is similar to the one measured around the Mt. Shasta in USA and Mt. Kailash in Tibet.

You will have a wonderful spectacle of the Untersberg from the Eagle’s Nest. Hitler was obsessed with this mountain mass and always, when on the top of the Kehlstein, he watched it with telescope.

There are many reports of disappearances on the Untersberg and accounts similar to those we hear from the Bermuda Triangle – the time on people’s watches shifts, or people completely disappear.

Jim Marrs in his book The Sisterhood Of The Rose says that the Eagle’s Nest was built with secret societies’ knowledge and that its positions are not random. The 124-meter long tunnel and the 124-meter long lift shaft made in the rock must give you a hunch that the number 124 was not randomly chosen. Perhaps we stumbled upon the threshold of theomatics – a science that tries to prove that “numbers of God’s mathematics” are not random. Albeit the Nazis absolutely turned away from God with their heinous deeds, much of their occult beliefs have still remained unexposed to the public. The prediction that the Third Reich will survive one thousand years is indisputably based on a one-thousand-year kingdom of God prophesied in the Bible.

Theomatics works with the numerical interpretation of the Bible (and other holy books). This science is based upon the fact that every letter of the Greek and Hebrew alphabet has its number. 124 is thus the number for Eden. The Nazis’ purpose for digging up these primeval myths was based on their obscure occult ideas, as they believed that Eden was the first earthly garden of the Aryan race, the offshoot of which were Teutons – the first proto-Germanic tribe. Educated people know that swastika is an ancient symbol still used in Buddhism and Hinduism even today and Hitler used it because he believed that the Aryan race had used it too. The Germans, on the basis of those beliefs, sent an official expedition to Tibet and looked for ancient connections that would explain how German nation had originated. The Thule Society (Thule-Gesellschaft in German), named after a mythical northern country, was one of the most famous German occult groups that emerged in about the year 1911.

How to get to the Kehlsteinhaus? Berchtesgaden, a beautiful Bavarian city, is only a 45 minutes drive from Salzburg. It is also reachable by bus No. 840 and a one-hourly train from Salzburg. All buses in Berchtesgaden depart from the main bus station, which is just a few meters away from the main train station’s building. To go to Obersalzberg, take the bus No. 838 or No. 849. Then you must use one of these special buses to the Kehlsteinhaus. Good luck!