Wolf’s Lair might sound like a catchy name for a bar, but it has one rather massive historical catch.

A New York sports restaurant opened to controversy on Thursday in the Astoria neighbourhood of the Big Apple.

It’s stirred up attention not for its service or prices, but for its name.

That’s because Wolf’s Lair happens to also be the title of Adolf Hitler’s infamous headquarters.

Called Wolfsschanze, the large complex of bunkers served as the centre of brutal Nazi military operations in Eastern Europe.

It was also the location of the famous assassination attempt against the German dictator in July 1944 and portrayed in the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie. The unfortunate, and unintended, namesake in modern day New York has not gone down well with some locals.

One local called B.B. told the

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