Is Church Made Out Of Nazi Rocks?

There have been calls to demolish a small chapel in Obersalzberg, Germany, because some of its masonry might have come from a nearby mountain retreat that belonged to Adolf Hitler.

This fight over Hitler’s flagstones may seem absurd at first, but they are nevertheless of high symbolic value. After falling in love with Obersalzberg in the 1920s, Hitler established an informal, second seat of government in the Alpine region and many of his henchmen likewise built villas near Hitler’s Berghof. Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress and future wife, once lounged on the flagstoned terrace in her bathing suit. Hitler greeted children and petted German shepherds on the stones. And the Nazi dictator played host to leading party officials, including Heinrich Himmler and Martin Bormann, on them. Indeed, speaking of the Berghof, Hitler once declared that “all of my great plans were developed there.”

While there’s been no actual confirmation that the stones belonged to Hitler, the mere possibility troubles locals, who worry that Neo-Nazi skinheads might make the site some kind of shrine. I’m not sure how the whole situation will resolve itself, but it says here that they should take the whole thing down. Once your stones get evil on them, they never come clean again.