Neo-Nazi falls 200ft to his death while climbing Hitler’s favourite mountain
A German neo-Nazi plunged 200ft to his death while climbing Adolf Hitler’s favourite mountain.
Andreas Münzhuber, 37, from Freising, was part of a 30-person expedition attempting to scale the Untersberg mountain in Bavaria on September 29.
The landscape was such a favourite of the Fuhrer that he decided to have his Eagle’s Nest lair built in the same area.
Münzhuber was a ‘senior board member’ of the neo-Nazi organisation Der III Weg (The Third Way), according to German news outlet T-Online.
The Third Way (Der Dritte Weg) was founded in the southwestern city of Heidelberg in September 2013 as a splinter of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD).
A report by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said the group’s relatively small membership of around 600 was deliberate, with the party considering itself a hardcore unit more interested in political activism than growing in number.
Münzhuber was named as the ‘treasurer’ of the Bavaria faction in a report last year.
He is thought to have lost his footing on an exposed root during the hike before falling to his death.
Two helicopters were scrambled as part of efforts to recover his body, The Telegraph reports.
A tribute posted on a fundraising page seeking donations for his funeral said: ‘Münzi, as everyone called him, was only 37 years old and still had many plans in life. His death hits us all hard.’
It went on: ‘But the biggest gap has emerged at the dinner table at home. His wife now has to raise their daughter alone.
‘She is not yet four months old and was the sunshine of Münzi’s life. She is the spitting image of Münzi. He will live on in her and in our hearts.’
As of Friday afternoon, some £10,000 had been donated to the page.
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