Hitler-loving pensioner faces criminal charges for turning his Belgium home into the Fuhrer's Eagle Nest, with Nazi banners, SS badges and 'Mein Kampf' written on the chimney
- George Boeckstaens, 75, covered Belgian home with swastikas and Nazi banners
- Renamed house in town of Keerbergen 'Het Adelaarsnest' or The Eagle's Nest
- Pensioner has giant red swastikas, a Nazi saluting statue and fake human skull
- Prosecutors say could be charged under Belgium's strict Holocaust denial laws
A Belgian pensioner could be jailed after turning his home into his own version of Adolf Hitler's Eagle Nest lair.
George Boeckstaens, 75, covered his house with swastikas in a dedication to the Nazi leader.
Third Reich insignia adorns every wall, a giant red Nazi banner hangs from a tree in the garden and the chimney is decorated with a swastika and the words 'Mein Kampf' written in Dutch.
The Hitler-loving pensioner even renamed his house in the town of Keerbergen in the Flemish province of Brabant as 'Het Adelaarsnest' or The Eagle's Nest.
The name is a tribute to Hitler's Eagle Nest base, Kehlsteinhaus, which stands atop a rocky outcrop near the town of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps of south-eastern Germany.
George Boeckstaens's house in the town of Keerbergen, Belgium, has swastikas on the walls, a Nazi saluting statute and SS insignia on the chimney
A wooden statute in the front garden of the pensioner's home is performing a Nazi salute with a Christmas Santa hat on top
George Boeckstaens, pictured with a SS banner and a Star of David behind him at his home in Belgium. He could be prosecuted for the decorations
The bizarre decorations to the modern house also include a strange wooden statue of a figure with a swastika on its forehead, wearing a Santa hat and performing a Nazi salute.
A fake human skull has been fixed to a drainpipe along with the warning: 'Halt! Hitler!'
The letters 'SS' hang over the driveway and the sick decorations even include a yellow Star of David similar to the badges the Nazis forced Jews to wear in death camps.
But Boeckstaens' bizarre hobby is set to land him in trouble after public prosecutors launched an investigation which could lead to him being charged with violation of Belgium's holocaust denial laws.
It could see the pensioner being jailed for up to a year if he is convicted but he is adamant that he has done nothing wrong.
Boeckstaens insisted: 'I'm doing no harm to anyone. I have no criminal record. If they want to lock me up they should just do it.'
The chimney of Mr Boeckstaens's house has a swastika and 'Mein Kampf' written on it in Dutch (left) and a swastika flag hanging down from a tree in the garden (right)
Hitler has been written on the wall of the house along with a fake human skull fixed to a drainpipe along with the warning: 'Halt! Hitler!'
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He said he believed it was normal to admire the Nazis as 'in the 1930s everyone was hysterical about Hitler'.
Boeckstaens added: 'It is important for our society that we get to know more about Hitler. I read every book about the Third Reich.
'I only say what is written in there as I don't know more. But by reading all those books I became a fan of Hitler somehow.'
The public prosecutor's office in the city of Leuven launched its investigation following a complaint about Boeckstaens' activities by the Unia anti-discrimination pressure group.
A decorative Nazi figurine of an eagle in the garden of George Boeckstaens in the Flemish province of Brabant
Above the pensioner's driveway reads a sign saying 'SS' and 'Het Adelaarsnest' - Dutch for The Eagle's Nest - which is the name he gave to his home after German Hitler's lair of the same title
A spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office confirmed that the investigation into Boeckstaens' house was 'nearing its end phase'.
The spokeswoman added: 'It will be up to the prosecutors to decide whether to pursue charges.'
Local media reports that Boeckstaen's house was the subject of a previous investigation in 2014 when prosecutors concluded 'no punishable facts could be determined'.
However, Unia spokesman Bram Seberechts said there was plenty of new evidence to support its new complaint about the house.
He said: 'The inhabitant has hung up pamphlets with antisemitic messages in his trees which are clearly visible from the public road.'
