The German state of Bavaria said yesterday it had found a private investor to turn the site of Adolf Hitler's Obersalzberg Alpine retreat near the Austrian border into a tourist attraction.
A state finance ministry spokesman said further details of the sale of the 106-hectare (262-acre) site overlooking the town of Berchtesgaden and the tourism project would be revealed at a news conference in Munich today.
The Bavarian government has said an investment of 30 million marks (£12 million) would be needed to develop the mountainside retreat. Bavaria is building a historical documentation centre on the site and it is due to open in mid-1999.