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me ah! me on new year's day 9191. fund into vent, checked into balance. most lavish hotel, the art long estate and suite number 130 and disappeared. the following day, as the money bought a colonda was reported missing with a later found lung, his body strangled in the hotel suite. the list of stolen valuable included jewelry, store. more than 200 gold marks in cash. the

reward of 10000 monks was offered for any information that could lead to the rest of the fake baron. the man's real name was vill, helm bloomer. the 44 year old was a writer, and desperate to see his dramas performed on the stages across the world. but to realize his dream, he needed money. monster along again his victim. eventually, the poet was tracked down in trenton. soon after his arrest, he cut his wrists. today his name can only be found in old police bonds. and in the annals of hotel ah, for over a century, this grand hotel on teresa plants, the pets, at this stage, a great dramas and comedies, perspective entrances and tragic departure is a luxury hotel with

a distinctive or use inaugurated in the 1907, destroyed, at the end of world war 2 and reopened in 1997. the outline is situated in the heart of berlin. the outlines vibrant history is its greatest asset. a legend you can check out and check into. right in germany's political epicenter, the ah, the outlet was a meeting place for king princes. k is an international finance for idolized artist and for women whose names were splashed across the marquees of theatres and

cinemas. all whose only talent it was to be theater for me. so said the grown dom who may be long, 9 stage, quarter of a century. tonight and known as header arrived in berlin in 1920 people that she had lived in the united states for years. at the outlands new year's eve, she caught the eye of hotel at louis outlaw arthur aside, promptly developed his wife, tilly, and header became the new matron of the house. and incidentally, its key as storing the head of son louis and told her friend, that's the man i'm going to marry. and she took advantage of the fact that the

marriage between julian louis was falling apart inside the family. she was also known as the header, that stupid cow and smith. by the time the headstrong had joined the long family, the house built by her father in law, had been standing over a decade. the loan had opened its doors in 1907, and prided itself as germany, the most modern and luxurious hotel. the imperial germany was at the height of its power the economy was flourishing prosperity in just a few years. germany had blossomed into a modern industrial nation. around the town at the 19th century, germany had even overtaken great britain as europe's leading economic power. as a young imperial capital was

a rapid swing. ben is looking for lynn was really booming at the time it started when the 2nd question was found, the berlin went from the city in the kingdom of prussia to the capital of the whole german empire and brought closer to being a world power when the empire was founded in 187071. the berlin counted 1000000, inhabited by the start of world war one. there were 4000000. so in those 40 years, the population had exploded and changed the face of the capital, new buildings probably john paul and cultural life. more incandescent and interesting and luxury found its way into the city. and that's where i had his father in law and long came in the son of a craftsman from mines. he moved to berlin in 1880. and the math, a huge fortune as a gas trauma was clearly a brilliant entrepreneur, extremely good organizing. and with an instinct from what was in time, and of what people really wanted in drink,

what kind of decor they wanted to see. he knew there was a certain type of longing of bond lost in german society. he does so many of his establishment showcased french and italian cuisine with ethan for liberty. and by the 1900s law hunt blonde already own several restaurants in berlin. among them was a large terrorist restaurant, i presume. logical garden japan testing cook the coffee house by the zoo that he didn't show ice cream he. so gelata even got in italian to make it that was completely new in berlin. in a way, you could say he helped revolutionize commentary, history and berlin, and the queen arctic in berlin. in just a few years, my father in law and about 2000000 marks from disease terrorist restaurant. and he wasn't copying the parisian style. his restaurant simply was tuition his ships came

from paris and the head waiter spoke every language. all of a sudden lin was serving dais, pulled squid jobs to pine, and chunk me even the imperial family would dine at his establishment. a high honor for a former carpenter, and so long and oblong could be sure of his emperor's support. when he embarked on his most daring projects yet either passed, he dreamt of building a modern grand hotel and they will him. the 2nd was easier to transform berlin city, his capital, into the center of an empire that he wanted it to be a splendid glamorous n station was possible. of course, that pared perfectly with an entrepreneur, he promised to build the most distinguished hotel in the world, and it was

a natural fit for this image of a new good metropolis plans for mutual paula, the dam problem was a fan of new technology. he supported the emerging german business class and paid no heed to religion or ancestry while handing out orders and honouring titles to the rising economic pillars of his empire. from the start, outlines hotel project was designed to please the emperor. construction amounted to 17000000 gold marks to me and out of his own fortune. take the wrench with the the investment equation, july of $40000.00 gold mass bed. the annual salary in germany at the time was not even 1000 marks. ah, when the outline was complete, the press spoke of a german hotel that offered the well something unrivalled and unprecedented each

bathroom provided the running was in such luxury astonished, even the emperor himself, as had outlined recounted, giving his tour of the hotel, the emperor, turned on every hot water tap in every bath to him, he visited all the way from the princely suite on the 1st floor to this simple room . on the 4th floor, he wanted to see if they actually worked. the emperor absolutely love the one. he practically scolded his burst circle saying, why don't we have such beautiful carpets. everything is so magnificent and my place is drafty and cold. c immediately started using the avalon to houses, steam guests, and in a way that still with the atlanta us today. me. but even more defining and the ranks than the taps was the commentary experience. the wind center was stopped with a quarter of a 1000000 bottles,

and the in house restaurants offered a variety of fine. i think dominic dishes, ah and inside the kitchen, it was a frenchman who was king of the council. ah, mad whether they had champ really was french master chef. as coffee, as had an ard, long claimed remains uncertain. either way, long strong me certainly stood up to international comparison with even today, more than a century later, connery on the hotel would surely measure up to a higher standard in house restaurant. no. and

as long as opposed to mission einstein's me had this book by ethical k, it was even signed by him. by the way, when you look through it, you can find abundance of recipes and ingredients heat. cook with oysters, sigo eggs, truffles. the things he was concerned with back then are still relevant today. he would ask himself, how should service be experienced, what you guessing he want? are we up to date and what can we develop? that's new and innovative to read those questions are as important today as they were 100 years ago in the when we'll have the 2nd host it came with the 7th day, of course stopped at the apple of the entry auto is recreating the dish of so they

were stopped back then, but nowadays, you wouldn't ever serve the space with the same source as coffee. i recommended the case. but one thing never das, a kitchen spank, determined by its reputation, me. ah. whereas with the emperor dined, objects would find at least those who could afford him. in addition to its choice cuisine also offered a variety of lounges. for purposes whether salut, bustling soirees meeting holds for secret negotiations or something more intimate for an afternoon monday to the heart loan provided just the right setting for any occasion when death, seated specialist and van attracted a new class who may not have had such a fixed meeting place, otherwise flesh beforehand,

knock on the floor and there was the castle sure. where the court and nobility, and perhaps the highest echelons of society. would me idle on flight to western fits and exec fast, but it may add one odd old aristocrats could encounter new money always. i'd have to cut, he went no, i am gay. and that was celebrated like, where else not have i the syllable he it's and if i liked and came and an odd is the grandiose reception home. me the whole at the i used to be legendary for people to rating down the grand staircase to make their entrance equal to 5. and that's been completely lost nowadays. just wanted to tell you, i don't know of any hotel where that still happens today. kind of talking to me in february in 1913, the emperor daughter, princess victoria,

luisa of prussia and prince and hanover announced their engagement overnight. the outlaws became the most of the address in europe, kilograms, and express letters put in by the boss, get full. the telephone was ringing off the hook. but the emperor's guest had already booked nearly every single bed we had. so we had to send out countless constellations all over the world. british monarch, king george the faith came russians on nicholas the 2nd, which could carry drive through berlin with the father of the bride oxide from victoria to unify the wedding of victoria. luisa followed a choreography the deeds back to the 17th century, but was still being upheld in the 20th century, and not can now over fiat. and so just one year be for the 1st world war, the english king and the russians are, came to berlin from his grand families,

abrasion by them, and also from union has to fight. you see the 3 monarchs were also cousins. that is looking through and it was such a peculiar moment in time when everything seemed to blossom one last time before this whole world came crashing down in the war, i just happened to wonder good. what head on science is true, the hotel narrowly escaped disaster, at the time russian anarchists aiming to till the czar said to her, planted a bomb in the lawn. but the attack was thought it. this story recounted only by header is another one of the hotels legends. in the end, it was the noble wedding ghast themselves who were the real threat as they blew up old europe with a started world war one in august 1914. and so german soldiers, march doctor battled through the brandon gate justice, don't throw away from where the was key players had dined,

ma'am months before. not the 3 cousins were now enemies. the speedy victory all had expected, did not materialize as the war dragged on, most large and luxury ho, towns close down. but not the. amidst all long years of carnage, the outlaws kept itself busy with back to back reservations. notice single room was empty during the war. one agency after the next was set up in berlin and the people running them with rent apartments in our house for years at a time. ah, in 1918 november resolution took place in violin. shots flew across plans under the brandenburg gate smashing the windows of the icons corner apartments.

i abdicated and revolutionary troops searched his majesty's favorite hotel for weapons and officers. the fighting raged on for days. it wasn't until january 1919, that the new social democratic government was able to assert itself with the help of massive military support. your hands on the lawn was approaching 17 and had to watch his whole world. from the i think i was like a leave. he'd love the emperor in our family coat of arms is an eagle with a globe under the imperial orb. and he quoted the sister after me, the linda had received permission from the emperor to use the imperial or in his family coat of arms underneath. it reads at a lot of these. so he was very close to the emperor.

ah, will be like nobility. cod lawn was a duty. but what did that mean? that the emperor was an exile, germany, a republic. the elephant fountain at the lawn today is a replica. the original was in the hotel trail. in 1919 american soldiers were filmed. the victors of the war touring, they still went beyond no comprehension ah, when the emperor went into exile, seeking norman's walk to the center of the brandenburg gate for every day, even wait for him to stay to emitter. nothing causing about it in eventually the inevitable happened. unaccustomed to traffic

in his hotel. oblong was struck by an oncoming vehicle. and i knew that up until world war one, only the emperor could pass through the ground and bore gate. no one else. when door at lawn died in 1921 son, louis was very familiar with a hotel business officially took over the reins. he led the lawn into its most glorious era in right by his side, headed in and outside of the office. from that day on the entire stuff recognized me as they both and patronizing. the knowledge i to quiet in america was of great use to me at work. the me had brought a waterfront property just outside of into the marriage here on lake lane. its the

couple had a villa known as the art on house. ah, it was a great honor to be invited to the avalon house. they must have thrown lavish parties there for their inner circle. in the knowledge of volunteers, the couple still had to tell. and business is booming there, even without the emperor's patronage. it was the golden age of the roaring twenties . again, from all over the world to berlin, to do business to simply to enjoy themselves in europe, new city. the, with the money is not as expensive as other metropolis this month in berlin. you get away with much more than you put elsewhere almost anything was allowed. it was far more

liberal than others until the end of time a piper inflation when a total of dollars was enough to entertain guests. but nights on end. in 1922, the journalist called phone c. s t wrote the counselor is the best spot for foreign currencies. from there to the outline. there's a stretch of land that technically belongs to germany. but ever since the crash is actually more of an external territory. there you will encounter every language, every currency and every type of clothing method, if that for i was. this was a city where everything that serial cultural policy had held back for decades, suddenly broke free and a new theater bricks theatre emerged. all these movements from data is just a realism to new objectivity. is it all surface all at once? breakdown and breakthrough are very closely related. i think that fostered

a creative density and intensity that didn't exist in other cities and intensity id like to and i'm interested in the skipping the yard long capitalized on the times hotel becomes a fix to address the balance entertainment seems t dances were held in the afternoons had an oblong train it was her idea to cope. mature ladies from high society to the hotel with in house male dancers for hire or gigolos. with his scheme, the hotel made its mark in music history. the roll of the dashing, low light and blue angel made marlena decrease an international in 1930. and when she showed up at the lawn, she was course in a frenzy of camera flashes. ah, yeah. as long as charlie chaplin like to stay here is take the chair to be found in

the hotel guest book. it reads like out of the interval period and lou bitch, harold lloyd depot caruso. ah m o jennings. ah. clare lewis, man band, albert einstein. ah. all in agree is a silver screen legend. when she pulled up to the lawn, the bow hops stood at attention as to the golf proposes. so when it was uncovered, and ag occasionally shan't her sweet dewey alone, junior, good chance come of age. scandal ensued. luigi pulled vines and louis and pulled out, were infatuated with each other. so when she checked into the avalon alone and louis was around,

she would take him to her room. and it was simply unheard of that lee would break the golden rule of never sleeping with the clientele to you soon. mister crunch of traffic. now home also stood at attention for little jackie to going the kid in johnny chaplain's famous, silent film through europe. issues bowed father presenting him to his adoring fans from their window overlooking elisa ah, in 2002, a contrasting scene occurred when michael jackson wasted his son over the railing and flew off. we can't really influence how i guess you have heard. of course, the more famous the guess is the more security must be put into place and to his on his yard or whether president don't, private citizens. everyone is welcome to be as long as they can pull a bell,

no matter accompanied by a wrong offense or a motorcycle. and of course, there's even a rolls royce limousine service available, right? even if a person who's traveling in the southeast of world revolution, she will find bourgeois bad at the avalon like this gas. if an account is alex 100 colon time, it was an ardent communist to joins lenny and the revolution. but she became one of his closest collaborators and was coming so responsible for social is it through standards. lens communists were outraged by colon tie, who made appearances draped inexpensive in the red flag newspaper. they even urged moscow to recall this luxury loving comrade. moscow's embassy was just down the street from the lawn. hotel, cultural icons, rub, shoulders,

and receptions. many artists and intellectuals sympathized with the communist confidence in the weimar republic was waning, especially as the great depression with an ice such as like to mass unemployment operating in germany, in the news right time, because also just a few minutes walk from the argon here it was not only the communist su gaining traction, but also the national socialist party. nancy celebrities were increasingly seen dining with representatives the big business and the world, the finance, but not at the online. at all hitler preferred hotel, kaiser home on nearby vill him from 1918 onwards. it was the usual horns for the

fun. right? not the nazis had occupied the kaiser hoff names for itself. every saw themselves as the master race. and so they chose the kaiser of the imperial court and had a law were too liberal for their taste, as was the whole society that frequented their establishment at the office. this hotel kaiser, who was where hitler originally from austria took on germans citizenship. that means it was a focal point for him. so it's not surprising that strategic meetings also took place there in the immediate run up to the seizure of power fatigue or should happen in january $933.00. hitler shocked the establishment when he snatched the chancellor ship and rose to announce the party paramilitary dean esmay paraded through the brand

new leader launched the procession from the until after midnight, the torches formed a dream. with one wave, i seen him beneath swastika faxed, quickly realized they had to fall in line if they wanted to continue operating that hotel just probably involved with add on to louis, adeline had accumulated huge data after his father's dad had to pay out his siblings inheritance and had taken out loans to do that. as had been the case during the imperial era and the weimar republic, the outlaws central location made a political hotspot. in 1933 parts of the hotel were rented out to the nazi parties

. foreign office me denazi's, held up against elections for foreign guests in the art long conference rooms, hoping the dignified ambience would exclude respectability. denazi's fine thought and the nazis were drawn to the lawn, bounded. awesome police i'm finding and why and why the barn office specifically house. this is scott from the abilene i to the atlanta was the most international house there was and the hotel projected that image out into the world. when from town i spent, nazis took advantage of that school from 1933 to 1941 that went well. i have business. then people started noticing that one of the most important business

couples in berlin was not in the party that didn't look good. they had to join and so head and louis arm loan joined the ranks of what would become over 8000000 members of the n s. d a. p. in 1936, a glimmer of the outlands former glory returned when the olympic games were held in berlin. the limpid committee took up quarters in the hotel and for a brief time, multilingual colorful life dotted the uniform depressing landscape of the brown dictatorship. ah, in front of our house, elegant french women strolled in delicate heels and exquisite footwear. both the american women was good use, both shoes and in between. they were officers in uniform. that was the outward

glamorous impression of the day. ah, today, the square behind the argon houses and the moral to the jews of europe. ah, they came out of town, guests and employees people wanted and murdered while the art long was still desperately trying to cling to the nonsense of a bygone age. ah, data swinson you are the able to salvage. there's a lot of eve of the old days. no, of course not. rec because possessions for life. freedom were gone,

yvonne and with all the good entertainers. and i hate to put it this way but it's true. had either fled or been murdered when i finished it. it was a dark time. i don't care side. mm. mm. mm. world war 2 began in 1939, and the outlaw prepared for the worst. in 1992. the remains of the hotels air raid shelter were uncovered. this was where the oblong family and the remaining gases spent many nights during the war. they're both good, they're my looks i use the bunker was luxurious. they had moved down carpets and the furniture from upstairs. extreme, the wine cellar was serenely well stocked. you could find the high ranking hotel guest and down there. and arden from depression,

the feeder would also come whenever there was a bomb care. they would gather in the seller and enjoy themselves. would gain chiefly champagne popping while outside the city was being destroyed. allied air rates left hundreds of thousands of the yard long, however, remained virtually unscathed in the battle with a capital hotel at a military hospital cottage by soviet cameron. and immediately after the building was i'll keep who i and then the long wind became its downfall. even after molten 5 years of war, it was still nationally stout. after the war had ended,

soviet soldiers struck upon this gold. mine. raided the shells and apparently through a carelessly discarded cigarette cause the outlaws to go in flames. the ah, as is on the line burned down in the night on may 2nd 945. the russians found 1000000 bottles of wine in the seller. so of course they decided it was time to celebrate. this does not throw and rightly so, i would have done the same after the hell they had just gone through the louis and had spent the rest of the war in their villa on lake lane. it's oh, it was the russians broke in. a servant came from the direction of the kitchen and shouted no stump. you don't understand by nothing. this is the home of louis ag

around the hotel, the general manager of the hotel. and what did the russians here? general good going to the russians couldn't find anything. so they released him and threw him out for the to do that. and there he had a heart attack and died on the streets, finished off and just on after berlin was divided plants and with it, the remains of the famous hotel along became part of the soviet sect. mm footage. from the some out of 1945 ah side wing on opperation continued ah, the family name on remained,

even though the former owner had been outdid. oh, the kind of on the most beautiful targets were burned down. the rooms along the side street were still somewhat preserved that they had been for the simple tourist, the grandiose sweets and departments office to the brandenburg gate and the boulevard wanted in london. only the poor people's rooms as it were, were spared, hired to ya and indies a semi and from 1946 onwards emigrants returning from abroad such as brash via google and his acres moved into these rooms and they stayed there for a few weeks until they could find a place to live, but they are simply weren't enough funds to rebuild the front section of the hotel emitted involved ball and i to the bowling ball was built in 961. the east german administration preferred to accommodate international

gas out of sight of the militaristic border installation. the odds on, however, was located directly on the 10th street. in 7900. 8 is the last remnants of the hotel with their march. but the legend lived on an oblong, who by time had moved to munich, made sure of me as early as 1955. the hoteliers widow committed the outlines long history to paper. it quickly became a edit and sold the rights to the name on to the end of the can pinsky, hotelier, family and up with him head came to an agreement with them and received enough royalties to comfortably live out the rest of her life. their contract granted him empty rights for the real estate and the right to rebuild the hotel. together with the avalon family that was had his vision in her book, she writes,

if there is to be and want, it must be on the same spot. and she had received a ton of offers to rebuild the lawn somewhere else. but she insisted on that place in the newer and im tough with my head up. the phone died in 1967, 22 years later vision. germany started to become reality at the iron curtain, sal and berlin and germany were united. the dance could also be shuffled at the ban. infiniti sold the 6000 square meter plaza, on which the old hotel had stood on the condition that a new luxury hotel built in. the new art lawn opened in 1997. amidst a palpable longing to revive pearl and old standing. the wealth metropolis architecturally the new hotel is similar to it's treated, the conservative ambient,

the continuity almost as it blocked out, its historical fractures. ah bill. the 2nd has left his marks throughout the great holmes. the interior pays homage to the hotels check had passed in muted campus with no frills to detract from the quiet comfort days long passed on because of how was a sudden with the tradition and history of the hotel dates back to 1907. so we've included various design elements from the original site entities building, which is that includes, for example, our antique looking elevators, the ellison fountain in the lobby, or the emperor as bust in our form, a restaurant. kaiser bas dunes and the name atlanta is extremely important to us

even in this day and age into hiding inside the face of the lawn, can escape into another era and slip from the entry to the last hotel survey. designed to pamper as unobtrusively as possible with luxurious coziness at every level with the me. several restaurants and a 2 star go may kitchen back and dined here they still cook the chancellors and precedents and the guest book started filling up once again with one industrious name after another. the dan lama the the queen and her late husband and bill

clinton to name a few with its imperial suite presidential suite royal and junior sweets. the outline is well equipped all kinds of visitors. ah, you'll find king size bed sweat. actual kings of laid down with a view the top to beat. ah, i standards feinstein, towns are upheld by about 500 employees. they're the ones tasked with defending the outlines. good reputation in that day. dealings with the sun and guests. their job is to breathe new life into the long 24 hours a day,

$365.00 days, so that the legendary grand hotel on the reader plans not only as a story passed, but also a promising future. ah ah ah, to the point of opinions clear positions, international perspective. embarrassed and opposition journalistic drug deal for playing that was intercepted shortly before lending a recall suggest his life might be in danger. feller as president lucas shank. apparently only the kids. nothing but is pulling the strings. find out the point to

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