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Hotel Elephant: Where History Came to Stay

Or Hitler's favourite hotel

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Katja Hoyer
Apr 19, 2026
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Cropped image of Hitler at the Hotel Elephant in 1936. Img: Der Führer in Weimar 1925-1938.

Wednesday was a long day for me. I had woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning in a dodgy hotel in East…

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