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Belgian cookery show cancelled after cooking up Adolf Hitler's favourite meal

Adolf Hitler's favourite dish of trout in butter sauce is off the menu for a popular Belgian television cooking show after an outcry from Belgium's Jewish community and victims of Nazi concentration camps.

The banned footage shows Jeroen Meus, a 30-year-old Flemish TV chef, catching trout before cooking up the "favourite meal of an atrocious man" at Hitler's Kehlsteinhaus, Eagle's Nest, hideaway in the Bavarian Alps.

Belgium's VRT broadcaster has cancelled the programme after deeming it "too sensitive" to air as part of the popular Plat Préféré, or Favourite Dish, series profiling the menu choices of famous people.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)