The "Harzburger Hof" was not only one of the five largest and most prestigious hotels in Germany - it was always also a social microcosm and mirror of its time. Opened in 1874 as the ducal "Actien-Hotel", it went through a series of peaks and troughs of fortune in the 20th century. A sophisticated place for recuperation in the days of empire, the "Harzburger Hof" became a center of cultural life in the 1920s, later serving as a military hospital and...