printed victoria luisa of prussia and prince and canada announced their engagement overnight the outlaws became the most addressed in europe, kilograms and express letters poured in by the basket for 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 cancellation all over the world. british mon or king george the faith came russians on nicholas the 2nd who took a carriage ride through berlin with a father of the bride. and you, hot side for nick toy them either for the wedding of victoria luisa followed 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 to his grand family celebration by them. and also from unions,

had to fight. you see the 3 monarchs were also cousins. voting 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. cotton to wonder good. what had art on the sides is true. the hotel narrowly escaped disaster at the time russian anarchist aiming to kill bizarre, said to her, taunted 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 hand. it was the noble wedding ghast themselves who were the real threat as they blew up old europe with a start of world war one in august, 1914. and so german soldiers, monster, after battle through the brand, i'm just thrown away from where the was key players had dying me

a month before. not the 3 cousins were now enemies. the speedy victory all had expected, did not materialize as the war dragged on. most large luxury hotels close down but not the. amidst all long years of carnage, the lawn 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 would rent apartments in our house for use at a time. in 1918, the resolution took place in berlin. shots flew across the plans and under the brandenburg gate matching the windows of the icons corner. i in the n b,

m for abdicated and revolutionary truitt scratched 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. no hint blonde was approaching 70 and had to watch his whole world from happening because i believe he loved the emperor in our family. coat of arms is an eagle with a robe underneath the imperial orb. and the cooley, this is the upper me. the lewis had received permission from the emperor to use the imperial orb in his family coat of arms underneath the reeds at low on please. so he was very close to the emperor a ah,

like nobility. lawn was duty. but what does that mean? that the emperor was an ex, in germany, a republic. the elephant counting at the oblong today is a replica. the original was in the hotel trail. in 1919th, american soldiers were filmed. the victors that the war touring based on lands beyond no comprehension, ah, when the emperor went into exile, seeking lawrence would walk to the center of the brandenburg gate for every day. even wait for him over to the state and emitter. nothing cause i wanted in eventually the inevitable happened. unaccustomed to traffic

near his hotel, oblong was struck by an oncoming vehicle. and i was at work and you know that up until world war one, only the emperor could capture the ground and forget no one else. wendell and at long died in 1921. his son louis was very familiar with a hotel business officially took over the reins. he led the lawn into its most glorious era right by his side and outside of the office. from that day on the entire stuff recognized me as they both and patronize. the really tried to quiet and america was of great use to me at work . the me as advantage waterfront property just outside of into the marriage here on lake lane is the couple had been

known as the art on house. the i think it was a great honor to be invited to the avalon house. they must have thrown lavish parties. there for their inner circle, it makes the larger part in the couple still had a towel and businesses booming their even without the emperor's patronage. it was the golden age of the roaring twenties. again, from all over the world flocks about in due business or simply to enjoy themselves in europe, the new city with the program is not as expensive as other metropolis this point in berlin. you get away with much more than you could elsewhere. almost anything was allowed. it was

far more liberal than others. until the end of time of piper inflation when a little dominance with enough to entertain. guess a night on end in 1922. the journalist con phone, wrote, the constant is the best spot for foreign currencies. from there to the outline, there is a stretch of land that technically belongs to germany. but ever since the crash, it's actually more of an external territory. there you will encounter every language, every currency, and every type of clothing. if that for i was, this was a city where everything that serial cultural policy had held jack for decades, suddenly broke free and a new theatre. bricks theatre emerged out. all these movements from data isn't just a realism to new objectivity. is it all surface all at once we break down and break through are very closely related. i think that fostered

a creative density and intensity that didn't exist in other cities and he did. he slipped through and i'm interested in this job. the aren't long capitalized on the times. hotel becomes a fix to transfer balance entertainment scenes. t dances were in the afternoon, had a long trained it was her idea to coax mature ladies from high society to the hotel with in house male dancers for hire or gigolos. with their scheme, the hotel made its mark in music history. the roll of the dashing, low light and the blue angel made marlena decrease an international song in 1930. and when she showed up at the lawn, she was course in a frenzy or camera flashes. ah yeah. as long as charlie chaplin nitrous they had to take the chair can be found in the hotel guest

book. it reads like of the interval period and lu bitch. pero lloyd depot caruso. ah m o. jennings. ah sinclair lewis, thomas man, and albany on time. all in agree is a silver screen legend. when she pulled up to the ard lawn, the bellhops stood at attention as to the gossip or apologise. so when it was uncovered, put in a tree occasionally shattered sweet, dewy outlaws junior. good chance come of age. a scandal ensued. luigi, i'm this finished louis and pulled out. we're infatuated with each other. so when she checked into the ad long alone, and we, we was around, she would take him to her room. and it was simply unheard of that lee would break

the golden rule, have never sleeping with the clientele to me soon. mister crunch of classics. now homes also stood at attention for little jackie to the kid in johnny chaplain's famous, silent film through europe is bound father presenting him to his adoring fans from their window overlooking valleys in 2002, a contrasting scene occurred when michael jackson wasted his song. over the railing and flew off as we can't really influence how our guest behave. of course, the more famous the guess is the more security must be put into place and the tours on the yard kush. whether presidents don't hide it citizens. everyone is welcome to be as long as they can put the bell massa if they are accompanied by

a wrong offense or a motorcycle as cold as even a rolls royce limousine service available. even if a news travelling in the service of world revolution, she will find boys while bed at the lawn, like this gas. if an account is alexandra colon time, it was an ardent communist to joined lenny and the resolution that she became one of these close collaborators with commerce are responsible for social is 2 standards. lynn's communists were outraged by call and tie who made appearances draped inexpensive in the red flags 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 of the 900 let to mass unemployment in germany. the news right time was also just a few minutes war from the. it was not only the communists were 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 outlined. hitler preferred hotel, kaiser holes on nearby vill him from 1918 onwards. it was the usual horns for the

far right. e nazis hadn't been kind of nazis had occupied the kaiser hall. the name speaks for itself. every saw themselves as the master race and so they chose the kaiser holes. the imperial court had absolutely and had a law where too liberal for their tale. as was the whole society that frequented their establishment key at the office. this hotel, the kaiser hole was where hitler originally from austria scott took on german 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 center of power of fatigue for half inch that fit in january 1933. hitler shocked the establishment when he snatched the chancellor ship and rose to power, the nazi party paramilitary, paraded through the brandon parliament. new

ones the procession from the emerge. until to midnight, the torches formed his dream. with one wave, i seen him beneath the swastika flags. quickly realized they had to fall in line if they wanted to continue operating that hotel. this probably involved with add on had 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 have been the case during the imperial era and the weimar republic, the outlaws central location made it a political spot. in 1933 parts of the hotel were rented out to the nazi parties.

foreign office me denazi's help propaganda lectures for foreign gas in the outline conference rooms, hoping the dignified ambience would exclude respectability. denazi's fond thought and the nazis were drawn to the outline bounded. awesome police, i'm finding why and why the foreign office specifically a house. this is scott from the abilene. i to the avalon was the most international house there was and the hotel projected that image out into the world one from town dr. nazis took advantage of that school from 1933 to 1941. that went well as we speak in 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 sort of head and louis arm loan joined. the ranks of luck would become over 8000000 members of the n s. d a. p. in 1900. 36, 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 daunted, 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. i today, the square behind the lawn houses the memorial to the jews of europe. ah, in the holocaust form, i guess, and employees people wanted and murdered while the outline was still desperately trying to cling to the nonsense to the bygone age. ah . satisfy you are they able to salvage digital out 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 long. it was a dark time. that's why i don't inside me world war 2 began in 1939, and the argon prepared for the worst in 1992. the remains of the hotels air raid shelter were uncovered. this was where the outline family and the remaining gas spent many nights during the war. the guy looked at us, the bunker was luxurious. they had moved down carpets and furniture from upstairs extreme. the wine cellar was really well start. you could find the high ranking hotel guest and i'll down there. and arden from depression,

the feeder would also come whenever there was a bomb scare. they would gather in the cellar and enjoy themselves. games, chiefly champagne popping while outside the city was being destroyed. allied air raids left hundreds of thousands of linen yard long however, remained virtually unscathed in the battle over the capital hotel as a military hospital th by soviet coming in immediately after the building was on key pine who i and then the wind became its downfall even after more than 5 years of war, it was still nationally stout after the war had ended. soviets,

soldiers struck upon this gold mine, raided the shells and apparently through carelessly discarded cigarette, the outland to go in flames. the me, as if i'm on the lawn 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 detect now through and rightly so. i would have done the same after the hell they had just gone through the louis and had outlined spent the rest of the war. and 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 and laughing. this is the home of louis

aguilar and the hotel. yeah. what is the general manager of the hotel? what did the russians here? general good. going to the russians couldn't find anything. so they released him and threw him out with the to do that. and there he had a heart attack and died on the streets, finished off and on after berlin was divided police plants and with the remains of the famous count on, became part of the soviet factor. ah, this is quoted from the amount of 9945 ah side wing on vill oh tell opperation continued ah, the family name remained, even though the former owner had been out.

oh, the kind of the most beautiful parts were burned down. the rooms along the side street were still somewhat preserved that they had been for the simple tourist lease up the grandiose sweeps and departments all face to the brandon, where gate and the boulevard entered in london. only the poor people's rooms as it were, were spared, hired a young man, 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 in dolton ball. and i to the earl involved was built in $961.00 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 the early 918. the remnants of the hotel with a modest legend lived on an oblong, who by that time had moved immunity, made sure that ah, as early as 1955 the hotel, a widow committed the art on long history to paper. it quickly became a bad headache and sold the rights to the name on to the end of the cam. pinsky, hotelier, family, and up with him. he came to an agreement with him and received enough royalties to comfortably live out the rest of her life. this 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 an add on, 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. i had ah, on dined in 1967, 22 years later, vision germany started to become reality. at the iron curtain foul, and berlin and germany were being united. the jack was also re shuffled. the burn infiniti sold the 6000 square meter plant on which the old hotel had stood on the condition that a new luxury hotel built in. the new art loan opened in 1997. amidst a palpable longing to revive pearl and old standing. the wealth metropolis architecturally the new hotel is similar to its printers,

as the conservative ambient suggest continuity almost as it to blas out. its historical fractures. the who's bill him. the 2nd has left his mark throughout the great holmes. the interior pays homage to the hotels check had passed in muted congress with no frills to detract from the quiet comfort day's long pond had its own if she could just how was a side note the tradition and history of the hotel dates back to 1907. so we've included various design elements from the original site in today's building. this was quiz and that includes, for example, our antique looking elevators, the ellison fountain in the lobby, or the emperor's bust in our form, a restaurant. kaiser bassoons on the name at land is extremely important to us, even in this day and age into hiding side. the bathing

b r gone can escape into another era and slip from the entry to the hotel service is designed to pamper as unobtrusively as possible with luxurious coziness at every level. the me several restaurants and a 2 star goal may kitchen back and dined. here they still cook the chancellors and precedents and the guest book instantly filling up once again with one lustrous name after another that 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 lawn is well equipped, all kinds of visitors. ah, you'll find king size bad. actual kings of late dance down with a view the top to beat. ah, i stand feinstein, towns are upheld by about 500 employees. they're the ones tasked with defending the long good reputation in that day. dealings with this ton and guest their job is to breed new line into the last 24 hours a day, $365.00 days a year. so that the legendary grand hotel on carissa plans,

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