'd later other famous people would check into the elephant including votto lionel finding her and ask when they came to weimar in 1919 and founded the bauhaus school. but those glory days were over by 933 when hitler came to power by mark had long become a stage for the nazi party and the elephant was hitler's favorite place to stay in . town. ordered the hotel to be torn down and rebuilt. when it reopened in 1938 it was touted as the most modern hotel in europe. while the nazis were living it up in town tens of thousands of people were dying from hunger and exhaustion at the book involved concentration camp just outside weimar it's a difficult legacy for the hotel. often the hotel deals with this openly and deliberately because that chapter is unfortunately post of our history i it's important for us to show that this hotel has always been an open meeting place here in the atrium we've consciously hung pieces from autists whose work was deemed degenerate by the nazis in order to create a counterpoint so that's. in addition to 3 centuries of history hotel elephant also boasts its own