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A proposed £2,000 tour of sites relating to Fuhrer is ‘perverse’, historians say

Historians are divided over plans for a luxury, eight-day package tour of sites relating to Adolf Hitler, with some saying it will turn into a "perverse pilgrimage".

The trip, scheduled for June, will visit the Munich beer cellar where the future Fuhrer launched his ill-fated 1923 putsch, Berchtesgaden where Hitler had his 'Eagle's Nest' castle and Berlin where he committed suicide....

Dissent came from historian David Cesarani, who told the Sunday Times: "There is a danger of sensationalism...

"If you focus on the sites most pertinent to Hitler, you are concentrating on the cult of that personality. The trip in effect becomes a perverse pilgrimage."...
Read entire article at The First Post (UK)