Figures
1.11Women and men at work in the cellar of the Hotel Esplanade, ca. 1915
1.13Pastry cooks and a sugar sculptor in the Esplanade patisserie, ca. 1915
2.2Promotional postcard for Zum Heidelberger, the Central-Hotel’s beer hall, ca. 1900
3.1Men hawking German national flags and patriotic souvenirs near the Central-Hotel, August 1914
4.1Sailors on patrol on Friedrichstraße in front of the Central-Hotel, December 1918
4.2At the Eden Hotel shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht on January 15/16, 1919
5.1Advertisement by the Hotel Management Corporation and partners, 1932
5.2Otto Dietrich with Adolf Hitler in his suite at the Kaiserhof, January 30, 1933
5.3Reception at the Kaiserhof after the Reichstag elections of July 1932
5.4William Meinhardt, chairman of the board of the Hotel Management Corporation, 1931