Fire destroys Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat; suspect arrested

🗞️ Story file #907

Fire destroys Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat; suspect arrested

Oct 24, 3 AM ET to Oct 27, 12 PM ET

23outlets carried it
🫏9 · 4 · 10🐘left · center · right
3.4 dayson the front pages
23front pages at once, at its peak
9 minof TV captions
2radio newscasts
42people retold it online

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 24, 3 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 24, 6 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 24, 7 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 24, 10 PM ETpeak: on 23 front pages
Oct 25, 4 AM ETretold online by 42 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 24, 3 AM to Oct 27, 12 PM ET (peak 23), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (CNBC, Newsmax)

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News

💬 quoted: “Eagle's Nest”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 hitler's infamous 🐘 suspected arson

✏️ 13 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (4 wordings): “Fire devastates the Eagle’s Nest retreat built for Hitler in Germany. A person is detained” → “Fire devastates the Eagle’s Nest retreat built for Hitler in Germany, one person detained”
BBC (4 wordings): “Arrest made after fire at Hitler's famed Eagle's Nest retreat” → “Fire engulfs Hitler's mountaintop Eagle's Nest retreat”
CBS News (2 wordings): “One arrested after fire at Hitler's Eagle Nest mountain retreat” → “1 arrested after fire at Hitler's Eagle's Nest mountain retreat”
CNBC (2 wordings): “One person detained after fire devastates the Eagle's Nest retreat built for Adolf Hitler in Germany” → “Fire devastates former Nazi guest house 'Eagle's Nest' in Germany”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Man arrested after fire engulfs Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest mountain retreat in the Bavarian Alps” → “Arson suspect nabbed at Hitler's Eagle's Nest on Bavarian mountaintop”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Suspect arrested as fire engulfs Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ retreat, German police say” → “Suspect arrested as fire engulfs Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ retreat, police say”
New York Post (4 wordings): “Hitler’s infamous Nazi ‘Eagle’s Nest’ retreat set ablaze in suspected arson” → “Fiery Riech Arson suspect arrested after fire engulfs Hitler’s Alps mountain retreat”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Fire Devastates the Eagle's Nest Retreat Built for Hitler in Germany. A Person Is Detained” → “Fire Nearly Destroys Hitler's Eagle's Nest Retreat”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Suspect arrested as fire engulfs Nazi guest house 'Eagle's Nest', German police say” → “Fire devastates former Nazi guest house 'Eagle's Nest'”
The Guardian (3 wordings): “Blaze engulfs Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ mountain retreat in Bavaria” → “Suspect arrested over fire at Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ retreat”
The Sun (4 wordings): “MOUNTAIN BLAZE Nazi's WW2 'Eagle's Nest' retreat engulfed by flames – as suspect arrested AROUND 200 firefighters battled the roaring blaze at the Nazi dictator's remote and hard-to-reach compound in the Bavarian Alps.” → “FLAMING LAIR Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ Nazi lair up in flames as pics show smoldering remains”
Townhall (3 wordings): “Adolf Hitler's Infamous Mountain Retreat Burns Down in Suspected Arson” → “Crime Adolf Hitler's Infamous Mountain Retreat Burns Down in Suspected Arson Joe Chalfant”
Yahoo News (3 wordings): “Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat engulfed in flames as police detain suspect” → “Fire flares up again at Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat in Bavarian Alps”

Every outlet's first headline (23), left to right by AllSides rating

The Daily Beast Adolf Hitler’s Lair Goes Up in Flames Oct 24, 6 PM ET
The Guardian Blaze engulfs Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ mountain retreat in Bavaria Oct 24, 3 AM ET
AP Fire devastates the Eagle’s Nest retreat built for Hitler in Germany. A person is detained Oct 24, 9 AM ET
CBS News One arrested after fire at Hitler's Eagle Nest mountain retreat Oct 24, 3 AM ET
CNBC One person detained after fire devastates the Eagle's Nest retreat built for Adolf Hitler in Germany Oct 24, 8 AM ET
CNN Fire engulfs Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ mountain retreat Oct 24, 2 AM ET
NBC News Suspect arrested as fire engulfs Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ retreat, German police say Oct 24, 3 AM ET
The Independent Person in custody after fire engulfs Hitler's retreat in Bavarian Alps Oct 24, 9 AM ET
Yahoo News Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat engulfed in flames as police detain suspect Oct 24, 7 AM ET
BBC Arrest made after fire at Hitler's famed Eagle's Nest retreat Oct 24, 3 AM ET
Newsweek Adolf Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ Retreat Engulfed by Flames, Arrest Made Oct 24, 6 AM ET
Reuters Suspect arrested as fire engulfs Nazi guest house 'Eagle's Nest', German police say Oct 24, 2 AM ET
Scripps News World News Fire guts Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest retreat in German Alps AP via Scripps News Group Oct 24, 10 AM ET
Just the News Fire destroys Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest retreat in Germany as police arrest suspect Oct 24, 2 PM ET
The Sun MOUNTAIN BLAZE Nazi's WW2 'Eagle's Nest' retreat engulfed by flames – as suspect arrested AROUND 200 firefighters battled the roaring blaze at the Nazi dictator's remote and hard-to-reach compound in the Bavarian Alps. Oct 24, 6 AM ET
Breitbart Suspect Detained After Fire Ravages Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest Mountain Retreat Oct 24, 10 AM ET
Fox News Man arrested after fire engulfs Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest mountain retreat in the Bavarian Alps Oct 24, 10 PM ET
IJR Fire Engulfs Germany’s Eagle’s Nest, Suspect Detained Oct 24, 7 PM ET
New York Post Hitler’s infamous Nazi ‘Eagle’s Nest’ retreat set ablaze in suspected arson Oct 24, 2 AM ET
Newsmax Fire Devastates the Eagle's Nest Retreat Built for Hitler in Germany. A Person Is Detained Oct 24, 8 AM ET
The Daily Caller Hitler’s Infamous Bavarian ‘Eagle’s Nest’ Retreat Set Ablaze In Suspected Arson Oct 24, 2 PM ET
The Daily Wire Suspected Arsonist Burns Down Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest Oct 24, 12 PM ET
Townhall Adolf Hitler's Infamous Mountain Retreat Burns Down in Suspected Arson Oct 24, 12 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News7 min

Fox News85 s

CNN21 s

Nazi-era retreat badly damaged by fire BBC News, 6 min
Hitler retreat fire BBC News, 2 min
SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER FIRE "COMPLETELY ENGULFED" Fox News, 25 s
HITLER'S EAGLE'S NEST MOUNTAIN RETREAT IN GERMANY Fox News, 25 s
FIRE ENGULFS HITLER'S "EAGLE'S NEST" MOUNTAIN RETREAT CNN, 21 s
ARSON SUSPECT HELD AFTER HITLER RETREAT FIRE Fox News, 18 s
SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER FIRE "COMPLETELY ENGULFED". HITLER'S EAGLE'S NEST MOUNTAIN RETREAT IN GERMANY Fox News, 17 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 24, 10:09 PM ET: story 6 of 6
NPR News Now, Oct 24, 7:10 AM ET: story 5 of 5

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 Benny Johnson

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat in Bavaria caught fire and a suspect has been arrested. Oct 25: told by 42 people; told before on Oct 24
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🗣️ names in it: Hitler Eagle's Nest German police

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the running story it belongs to

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