The name, Eagle’s Nest, was given to the structure by a French ambassador named André François-Poncet, who recalled later of his time at the chalet as enlightening into the Nazi party and was startled ...

permitted Chancellor Adolf Hitler to establish one at Epinal, 50 miles southwest of Strasbourg near Alsace-Lorraine. Indignant Epinal residents complained: “It will be nothing but a nest of ...