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00:00On New Year's Day 1919, one Baron von Winterfeld checked into Berlin's most lavish hotel,
00:18the Adlon. He stayed in suite number 130 and disappeared the following day
00:24as the money porter, Oskar Lange, was reported missing.
00:30They later found Lange's body strangled in the hotel suite.
00:39The list of stolen valuables included jewelry, stocks and more than 200 gold marks in cash.
00:51A reward of 10,000 marks was offered for any information that could lead to the arrest of the fake Baron.
01:00The man's real name was Wilhelm Blumer. The 44-year-old was a writer and desperate to see his dramas
01:07performed on stages across the world. But to realize his dream, he needed money. Lots of it.
01:15Oskar Lange had been his third victim. Eventually the poet was tracked down in Dresden.
01:21Soon after his arrest, he cut his wrists. Today his name can only be found in old police files
01:28and in the annals of Hotel Adlon.
01:36For over a century, this grand hotel on Pariser Platz has set the stage for great dramas and comedies,
01:42for spectacular entrances and tragic departures. A luxury hotel with a distinctive aura.
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02:00Inaugurated in 1907 – destroyed at the end of World War II – and reopened in 1997,
02:08the ADLON is situated in the heart of Berlin.
02:11The Ardlon's vibrant history is its greatest asset.
02:18A legend you can check out and check into.
02:22Right in Germany's political epicenter.
02:25The Ardlon was a meeting place for kings, princes, for key players in international finance,
02:43for idolized artists and for women whose names were splashed across the marquees of theatres and cinemas
02:50or whose only talent it was to be beautiful.
02:55So said the Grand Dame who made the Ardlon her main stage for a quarter of a century.
03:08Hedwig Leiten, known as Hedda, arrived in Berlin in 1920.
03:14Before that she had lived in the United States for years.
03:25At the Ardlon's New Year's Eve ball, she caught the eye of hotel heir Louis Ardlon.
03:34The father of five promptly divorced his wife Tilly, and Hedda became the new matron of the house and, incidentally, its key historian.
03:44Hedda saw Louis and told her friend, that's the man I'm going to marry.
03:50And she took advantage of the fact that the marriage between Tilly and Louis was falling apart.
03:55Inside the family, she was also known as Hedda, that stupid cow.
04:01Hedda das Mistvieh genannt.
04:04By the time the headstrong Hedda joined the Ardlon family, the house built by her father-in-law had been standing for over a decade.
04:12The Ardlon had opened its doors in 1907 and prided itself as Germany's most modern and luxurious hotel.
04:23Imperial Germany was at the height of its power.
04:30The economy was flourishing. Prosperity grew.
04:33In just a few years, Germany had blossomed into a modern industrial nation.
04:39Around the turn of the 19th century, Germany had even overtaken Great Britain as Europe's leading economic power.
04:47As a young imperial capital, Berlin was in a rapid upswing.
04:54Berlin was really booming at the time.
04:57It started when the Second Reich was founded, and Berlin went from being a city in the Kingdom of Prussia to the capital of the whole German Empire.
05:04And that brought it closer to being a world power.
05:07When the empire was founded in 1870-71, Berlin counted one million inhabitants.
05:14By the start of World War I, there were four million.
05:17So in those 40 years, the population had exploded and changed the face of the capital.
05:22New buildings cropped up.
05:24Cultural life became more incandescent and interesting.
05:27And luxury found its way into the city.
05:29And that's where Hedda's father-in-law, Lorenz Adlon, came in.
05:34The son of a craftsman from Mainz, he moved to Berlin in 1880 and amassed a huge fortune as a gastronomer.
05:40He was clearly a brilliant entrepreneur, extremely good at organizing and with an instinct for what was in at the time.
05:49What people really wanted to eat and drink, what kind of decor they wanted to see.
05:53He knew there was a certain type of longing, a wanderlust in German society.
05:59So many of his establishments showcased French and Italian cuisine.
06:03By the 1900s, Lorenz Adlon already owned several restaurants in Berlin.
06:11Among them was a large terrace restaurant at the Zoological Garden.
06:18He was a fantastic cook.
06:20At the coffee house by the zoo, he didn't sell ice cream, he sold gelato.
06:25He even got an Italian to make it.
06:28That was completely new in Berlin.
06:29In a way, you could say, he helped revolutionize the culinary industry in Berlin.
06:39In just a few years, my father-in-law earned about two million marks from the zoo's terrace restaurant alone.
06:46He wasn't copying the Parisian style, his restaurant simply was Parisian.
06:52His chefs came from Paris and the head waiters spoke every language.
06:56Every language.
06:57All of a sudden, Berlin was serving bouillabaisse, boiled squid, lobster pie and shark fin soup.
07:08Even the imperial family would dine at his establishments.
07:12A high honor for a former carpenter.
07:15And so Lorenz Adlon could be sure of his emperor's support when he embarked on his most daring project yet.
07:22Here at Pariserplatz, he dreamt of building a modern grand hotel.
07:29Wilhelm II was eager to transform Berlin, his city, his capital into the epicenter of an empire.
07:37He wanted it to be as splendid, glamorous and sensational as possible.
07:41Of course, that paired perfectly with an entrepreneur who promised to build the most distinguished hotel in the world.
07:48It was a natural fit for this image of a new glitzy metropolis.
07:53The emperor was a fan of new technology.
07:59He supported the emerging German business class and paid no heed to religion or ancestry when handing out orders and honorary titles to the rising economic pillars of his empire.
08:13From the start, Adlon's hotel project was designed to please the emperor.
08:19Construction amounted to 17 million goldmarks.
08:23Lorenz took 2 million out of his own fortune and paid the rest with loans.
08:31The investment equated to over 40,000 goldmarks per bed.
08:35The annual salary in Germany at the time was not even 1,000 marks.
08:42When the Adlon was complete, the press spoke of a German hotel that offered the world something unrivalled and unprecedented.
08:52Each bathroom provided running, heated water.
08:55Such luxury astonished even the emperor himself, as Hede Adlon recounted.
09:00During his tour of the hotel, the emperor turned on every hot water tap in every bathroom he visited,
09:09all the way from the princely suites on the first floor to the simple rooms on the fourth floor.
09:14He wanted to see if they actually worked.
09:17The emperor absolutely loved the Adlon.
09:21He practically scolded his bursar, saying, why don't we have such beautiful carpets?
09:25Everything is so magnificent and my place is drafty and cold.
09:28He immediately started using the Adlon to house esteemed guests and in a way that's still what the Adlon does today.
09:37But even more defining than the rugs and the taps was the culinary experience.
09:45The wine cellar was stocked with a quarter of a million bottles and the in-house restaurants offered a variety of fine and exotic dishes.
09:55And inside the kitchen, it was a Frenchman who was king of the castle.
10:11But whether the head chef really was French master chef, Auguste Escoffier, as Hede Adlon claimed, remains uncertain.
10:25Either way, the Adlon's gastronomy certainly stood up to international comparison.
10:30And even today, more than a century later, culinary arts of the hotel would surely measure up to Escoffier's high standards.
10:46The in-house restaurant, Lorenz Adlon S. Zimmer boasts two Michelin stars.
10:55I still have this book by Escoffier. It was even signed by him, by the way.
11:08When you look through it, you can find an abundance of recipes and ingredients.
11:12He'd cook with oysters, seagull eggs, truffles. The things he was concerned with back then are still relevant today.
11:20He would ask himself, how should service be experienced? What do guests want? Are we up to date?
11:25And what can we develop that's new and innovative? To me, those questions are as important today as they were 100 years ago.
11:32When Wilhelm II hosted his uncle, King Edward VII, they of course supped at the Adlon.
11:45Hendrik Otto is recreating the dish of soul they were served back then.
11:51But nowadays, he wouldn't ever serve this fish with the same sauce Escoffier recommended.
11:56Tastes change, but one thing never does. A kitchen's fate is determined by its reputation.
12:12Wherever the emperor dined, his subjects would follow. At least, those who could afford to.
12:18In addition to its choice cuisine, the Adlon also offered a variety of lounges that served different purposes.
12:26Whether saloons for bustling soirees, meeting halls for secret negotiations, or something more intimate for an afternoon rendezvous,
12:36the Adlon provided just the right setting for any occasion.
12:41And that attracted a new upper class, who may not have had such a fixed meeting place otherwise.
12:48There was the castle shore, where the court and nobility and perhaps the highest echelons of society would meet.
12:59But in the Adlon, old aristocrats could encounter new money.
13:03And that was celebrated like nowhere else.
13:14This here is the grandiose reception hall of the old Adlon.
13:20The hall at the Adlon used to be legendary for people parading down the grand staircase to make their entrance.
13:33That's been completely lost nowadays.
13:37I don't know of any hotel where that still happens today.
13:41I don't know of any hotel where it's possible today.
13:47In February 1913, the emperor's daughter, Princess Victoria Luisa of Prussia, and Prince Ernst August of Hannover announced their engagement.
13:57Overnight, the Adlon became the most sought-after address in Europe.
14:06Telegrams and express letters poured in by the basketful.
14:10The telephone was ringing off the hook.
14:12But the emperor's guests had already booked nearly every single bed we had.
14:17So we had to send out countless cancellations all over the world.
14:20British monarch King George V came, as did Russian Tsar Nicholas II, who took a carriage ride through Berlin with the father of the bride.
14:32The wedding of Victoria Luisa followed a choreography that dates back to the 17th century, but was still being upheld in the 20th century.
14:42And so, just one year before the First World War, the English king and the Russian Tsar came to Berlin for this grand family celebration.
14:53You see, the three monarchs were also cousins.
14:57It 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.
15:06If what Heda Adlon says is true, the hotel narrowly escaped disaster at the time.
15:16Russian anarchists, aiming to kill the Tsar, are said to have planted a bomb in the Adlon.
15:22But the attack was thwarted.
15:25This story, recounted only by Heda, is another one of the hotel's legends.
15:29In the end, it was the noble wedding guests themselves who were the real threat, as they blew up old Europe with the start of World War I in August 1914.
15:42And so German soldiers marched off to battle through the Brandenburg Gate, just a stone's throw away from where the war's key players had dined mere months before.
15:51But the three cousins were now enemies. The speedy victory all had expected did not materialize. As the war dragged on, most large luxury hotels closed down.
16:04But not the Adlon. Amidst four long years of carnage, the Adlon kept itself busy with back-to-back reservations.
16:13Not a 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 years at a time.
16:26Then, in 1918, the November Revolution took place in Berlin. Shots flew across Pariser Platz and under the Brandenburg Gate, smashing the windows of the Adlon's corner apartments.
16:44In the end, the Emperor abdicated, and revolutionary troops searched His Majesty's favourite hotel for weapons and officers.
17:00The 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.
17:11Lorenz Adlon was approaching 70, and had to watch his whole world crumble.
17:22He loved the Emperor. Our family coat of arms is an eagle with a globe underneath it, the Imperial Orb.
17:29Lorenz had received permission from the Emperor to use the Imperial Orb in his family coat of arms.
17:44Underneath it reads, Adlon Oblige, so he was very close to the Emperor.
17:49Adlon Oblige, like nobility, Adlon was a duty. But what did that mean now that the Emperor was in exile, and Germany a republic?
18:03The elephant fountain at the Adlon today is a replica. The original was in the hotel's atrium.
18:11In 1919, American soldiers were filmed there. The victors of the war touring Berlin. This all went beyond Lorenz Adlon's comprehension.
18:22When the Emperor went into exile, Lorenz would walk to the centre of the Brandenburg Gate every day and wait for him.
18:38He had set the door in the middle and waited for the Kaiser.
18:46Eventually, the inevitable happened. Unaccustomed to traffic near his hotel, Lorenz Adlon was struck by an oncoming vehicle.
18:56It's important to note that up until World War I, only the Emperor could pass through the Brandenburg Gate, no one else.
19:03When Lorenz Adlon died in 1921, his son Louis, who was very familiar with the hotel business, officially took over the reins.
19:14He led the Adlon into its most glorious era.
19:20And right by his side, header, in and outside of the office.
19:24From that day on, the entire staff recognised me as their boss and patroness. The knowledge I'd acquired in America was of great use to me at work.
19:35Hedda had brought a large waterfront property just outside of Berlin into the marriage.
19:50Here on Lake Lenitz, the couple had a villa known as the Adlon House.
19:54It was a great honour to be invited to the Adlon House. They must have thrown lavish parties there for their inner circle.
20:10For larger parties, the couple still had Hotel Adlon. And business was booming there, even without the Emperor's patronage.
20:17It was the Golden Age of the Roaring Twenties. Guests from all over the world flocked to Berlin to do business, or simply to enjoy themselves, in Europe's new Sin City.
20:31Berlin was not as expensive as other metropolises. In Berlin, you could get away with much more than you could elsewhere.
20:49Almost anything was allowed. It was far more liberal than other cities.
20:53It was a time of hyperinflation when a fistful of dollars was enough to entertain guests for nights on end.
21:02In 1922, the leftist journalist Karl von Osiecki wrote,
21:07The Kanzlerecke is the best spot for foreign currencies. From there to the Adlon, there's a stretch of land that technically belongs to Germany.
21:16But ever since the crash, it's actually more of an external territory.
21:19There you will encounter every language, every currency, and every type of clothing.
21:28This was a city where everything that imperial cultural policy had held back for decades suddenly broke free.
21:36A new theatre, Brecht's Theatre, emerged. All these art movements, from Dadaism to Surrealism to new objectivity.
21:43It all surfaced all at once. Breakdown and breakthrough are very closely related.
21:49I think that fostered a creative density and an intensity that didn't exist in other cities.
21:55The Adlon capitalized on the times. The hotel becomes a fixed address for Berlin's entertainment scene.
22:12Tea dances were held here in the afternoons.
22:14Hedda Adlon claimed it was her idea to copse mature ladies from high society to the hotel with in-house male dancers for hire, or gigolos.
22:25With this scheme, the hotel made its mark in music history.
22:29The role of the dashing Lola in The Blue Angel made Marlene Dietrich an international star in 1930.
22:36And when she showed up at the Adlon, she was caught in a frenzy of camera flashes.
22:45The Adlon and the stars.
22:47Charlie Chaplin liked to stay here. His signature can be found in the hotel's old guest book.
22:53It reads like a who's who of the interwar period.
22:56Ernst Lubitsch.
23:00Harold Lloyd.
23:02Enrico Caruso.
23:05Emil Jannings.
23:08Sinclair Lewis.
23:10Thomas Mann.
23:12And Albert Einstein.
23:17Pola Negri is a silver screen legend.
23:20When she pulled up to the Adlon, the bellhops stood at attention.
23:23As did the gossip reporters.
23:27So, when it was uncovered that Pola Negri occasionally shared her suite with Louis Adlon, Jr., who had just come of age, a scandal ensued.
23:40Louis and Pola were infatuated with each other.
23:45So, when she checked into the Adlon alone, and Louis was around, she would take him to her room.
23:50It was simply unheard of that Louis would break the golden rule of never sleeping with the clientele.
23:57The bellhops also stood at attention for little Jackie Coogan, the kid, in Charlie Chaplin's famous silent film.
24:11On tour through Europe, this is his proud father presenting him to his adoring fans from their window overlooking Pariser Platz.
24:24In 2002, a contrasting scene occurred when Michael Jackson hoisted his son over the railing.
24:30We can't really influence how our guests behave.
24:37But of course, the more famous a guest is, the more security must be put into place.
24:42Whether pop stars, presidents or private citizens, everyone is welcome to the Adlon.
24:48As long as they can foot the bill, no matter if they are accompanied by a throng of fans or a motorcycle escort.
24:57There's even a Rolls-Royce limousine service available for excursions.
25:01And even if a person is traveling in the service of world revolution, she will find a bourgeois bed at the Adlon.
25:14Like this guest.
25:16Alexandra Kollontai was an ardent communist who joined Lenin in the revolution.
25:22She became one of his closest collaborators and was a commissar responsible for social issues.
25:31Berlin's communists were outraged by Kollontai, who made appearances draped in expensive furs.
25:38In The Red Flag newspaper, they even urged Moscow to recall this luxury-loving comrade to her homeland.
25:46Moscow's embassy was just down the street from the Adlon Hotel.
25:50Cultural icons rubbed shoulders at receptions.
25:54Many artists and intellectuals sympathized with the communists.
25:59Confidence in the Weimar Republic was waning, especially as the Great Depression of the 1930s led to mass unemployment and poverty in Germany.
26:20The Reichstag was also just a few minutes walk from the Adlon.
26:30Here it was not only the communists who were gaining traction, but also the National Socialist Party.
26:36Nazi celebrities were increasingly seen dining with representatives of big business and the world of finance.
26:44But not at the Adlon.
26:46Adolf Hitler preferred Hotel Kaiserhof on nearby Wilhelmstraße.
26:51From 1918 onwards it was the usual haunt for the far right.
26:54The Nazis had occupied the Kaiserhof. The name speaks for itself. They saw themselves as the master race and so they chose the Kaiserhof, the imperial court.
27:05Perhaps Louis and Hede Adlon were too liberal for their taste, as was the whole society that frequented their establishment.
27:11The Kaiserhof was where Hitler, originally from Austria, took on German citizenship. That means it was a focal point for him.
27:21So it's not surprising that strategic meetings also took place there in the immediate run-up to the seizure of power.
27:27In January 1933, Hitler shocked the establishment when he snatched the chancellorship and rose to power.
27:40The Nazi party paramilitary, the SA, paraded through the Brandenburg Gate to the doomed parliament to celebrate their new leader.
27:49Hede watched the procession from the Adlon.
27:56The march lasted until after midnight. The torches formed a stream of fire with one wave after another.
28:09The Adlons, seen here beneath swastika flags, quickly realized they had to fall in line if they wanted to continue operating their hotel.
28:26Louis Adlon had accumulated huge debt after his father's death.
28:32He had had to pay out his siblings' inheritance and had taken out loans to do that.
28:35As had been the case during the imperial era and the Weimar Republic, the Adlon's central location made it a political hotspot.
28:48In 1933, parts of the hotel were rented out to the Nazi party's foreign office.
28:57The Nazis held propaganda lectures for foreign guests in the Adlon's conference rooms,
29:02hoping the dignified ambience would exude respectability.
29:19The Nazis were drawn to the Adlon.
29:23Why? And why the foreign office specifically?
29:29The Adlon was the most international house there was, and the hotel projected that image out into the world.
29:38The Nazis took advantage of that. From 1933 to 1941, that went well.
29:44Then people started noticing that one of the most important business couples in Berlin was not in the party.
29:56That didn't look good. They had to join.
29:58And so Hedda and Louis Adlon joined the ranks of what would become over eight million members of the NSDAP.
30:10In 1936, a glimmer of the Adlon's former glory returned when the Olympic Games were held in Berlin.
30:17The Olympic Committee took up quarters in the hotel.
30:21And for a brief time, a multilingual, colourful life dotted the uniform depressing landscape of the brown dictatorship.
30:29In front of our house, elegant French women strolled in delicate heels and exquisite footwear.
30:46Sporty American women wore Goodyear sports shoes, and in between there were officers in uniform.
30:52That was the outward and glamorous impression of those days.
30:59Today, the square behind the Adlon houses the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe.
31:14The victims of the Holocaust were also former hotel guests and employees.
31:20Deported and murdered while the Adlon were still desperately trying to cling to the nonchalance of a bygone age.
31:27Were they able to salvage the joie de vivre of the old days? No, of course not.
31:46Because the zest for life, the freedoms were gone.
31:50All the good entertainers, and I hate to put it this way, but it's true, had either fled or been murdered.
31:59It was a dark time.
32:03World War II began in 1939, and the Adlon prepared for the worst.
32:16In 1992, the remains of the hotel's air raid shelter were uncovered.
32:25This was where the Adlon family and their remaining guests spent many nights during the war.
32:31The bunker was luxurious.
32:36They had moved down carpets and the furniture from upstairs.
32:42The wine cellar was extremely well stocked.
32:46You could find the high-ranking hotel guests down there.
32:49And artists from the Prussian State Theatre would also come whenever there was a bomb scare.
32:53They would gather in the cellar and enjoy themselves.
32:58Cheerful champagne popping while, outside, the city was being destroyed.
33:05Allied air raids left hundreds of thousands of Berliners homeless.
33:09The Adlon, however, remained virtually unscathed.
33:16In the fierce battle over the capital, the hotel served as a military hospital.
33:23This is footage by Soviet cameramen immediately after the building was occupied.
33:28And then, the Adlon's huge wine cellar became its downfall.
33:44Even after more than five years of war, it was still lavishly stocked.
33:49After the war had ended, Soviet soldiers struck upon this gold mine.
33:56They raided the shelves and, apparently through a carelessly discarded cigarette,
34:01caused the Adlon to go up in flames.
34:04The Adlon burned down in the night on May 2nd, 1945.
34:19The Russians found one million bottles of wine in the cellar,
34:23so of course they decided it was time to celebrate.
34:26And rightly so, I would have done the same after the hell they had just gone through.
34:31Louis and Hedda Adlon spent the rest of the war in their villa on Lake Leynitz.
34:41The Russians broke in.
34:44A servant came from the direction of the kitchen and shouted,
34:47No, stop, you don't understand!
34:49This is the home of Louis Adlon, the hotelier, the general manager of the Hotel Adlon.
34:56And what did the Russians hear? General!
34:58General!
35:00The Russians couldn't find anything, so they released him and threw him out.
35:05There he had a heart attack and died on the streets.
35:14After Berlin was divided, Pariser Platz, and with it, the remains of the famous Hotel Adlon,
35:20became part of the Soviet sector.
35:24This is footage from the summer of 1945.
35:29In a preserved side wing on Wilhelmstrasse, hotel operations continued.
35:40The family name, Adlon, remained, even though the former owner had been ousted.
35:53The most beautiful parts were burned down.
36:02The rooms along the side street were still somewhat preserved, but they had been for the simple tourists.
36:07The grandiose suites and apartments all faced the Brandenburg Gate and the Boulevard Unter den Linden.
36:11Only the poor people's rooms, as it were, were spared.
36:16And from 1946 onwards, emigrants returning from abroad, such as Brecht, Weigl, Anna Segers, moved into these rooms.
36:27And they stayed there for a few weeks until they could find a place to live.
36:29But there simply weren't enough funds to rebuild the front section of the hotel.
36:42After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the East German administration preferred to accommodate international guests
36:50out of sight of the militaristic border installation.
36:54The Adlon, however, was located directly on the death strip.
36:59And so in the early 1980s, the last remnants of the hotel were demolished.
37:06But the legend lived on.
37:08Heder Adlon, who by that time had moved to Munich, made sure of it.
37:15As early as 1955, the hotelier's widow committed the Adlon's long history to paper.
37:22It quickly became a bestseller.
37:24Heder then sold the rights to the name Adlon to the heir of the Kempinski Hotelier family.
37:30Heder came to an agreement with him and received enough royalties to comfortably live out the rest of her life.
37:39This contract granted him pre-emptive rights for the real estate and the right to rebuild the hotel together with the Adlon family.
37:45That was Heder's vision.
37:48In her book she writes, if there is to be an Adlon, it must be on the same spot.
37:53She had received a ton of offers to rebuild the Adlon somewhere else.
37:57But she insisted on that place.
37:58She said, only on that place.
38:01That was Heder.
38:05Heder Adlon died in 1967.
38:0822 years later, her vision for Germany started to become reality as the Iron Curtain fell and Berlin and Germany were reunited.
38:17The deck was also reshuffled at Pariser Platz.
38:22The Berlin Senate sold the 6,000 square meter plot, on which the old hotel had stood, on the condition that a new luxury hotel be built in its stead.
38:32The new Adlon opened in 1997 amidst a palpable longing to revive Berlin's old standing as a world metropolis.
38:48Architecturally, the new hotel is similar to its predecessor.
38:52The conservative ambiance suggests continuity, almost as if to blot out its historical fractures.
39:02The interior pays homage to the hotel's checkered past in muted colours.
39:07With no frills to detract from the quiet comfort of days long past.
39:12The tradition and history of the hotel dates back to 1907.
39:16So, we've included various design elements from the original site in today's building.
39:17That includes, for example, our antique-looking elevators, the elephant fountain in the lobby, or the emperor's bust in our gourmet restaurant.
39:34The name Adlon is extremely important to us, even in this day and age.
39:52Guests visiting the Adlon can escape into another era, and slip from this century to the last.
40:02The hotel's service is designed to pamper their guests, as unobtrusively as possible, with luxurious coziness at every level.
40:10Several restaurants and a two-star gourmet kitchen beckon guests to dine.
40:30Here they still cook for chancellors and presidents.
40:37And so, the guest book has started filling up once again, with one illustrious name after another.
40:47The Dalai Lama.
40:48The queen and her late husband.
40:53And Bill Clinton, to name a few.
40:56With its imperial suite, presidential suite, royal and junior suites, the Adlon is well-equipped for all kinds of visitors.
41:09Here you'll find king-size beds where actual kings have laid their heads down, with a view that's hard to beat.
41:18The standards of this five-star hotel are upheld by about 500 employees.
41:32They're the ones tasked with defending the Adlon's good reputation in their daily dealings with discerning guests.
41:42Their job is to breathe new life into the Adlon.
41:4524 hours a day.
41:48365 days a year.
41:50So that the legendary grand hotel on Parisaplatz not only has a storied past, but also a promising future.
42:00A promising future.
42:01A promising future.
42:02A promising future.
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