Hotel Adlon: A Family Saga

Part 3: 1933-1997 (1x3)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Oca 09, 2013

Sonja visits Julian in protective custody and informs him that she is pregnant. Three years later, he is released and returns to Sonja and their daughter Anna-Maria. He wants to leave Germany. In his efforts to escape Germany Julian accepts a false British passport but the Gestapo find out and arrest him. Sebastian swears to Sonja hat he will spare no effort to ensure that Julian does not come to court, but is only deported abroad. Because he believes Sonja had betrayed him and opted for collaboration with the Nazis, Julian has disappeared with their daughter and is still missing. Sonja resists Sebastian's overtures and resigns from broadcasting. She finds a job at the Adlon on the front desk. At Hotel Adlon Louis has tried to keep out of politics, with the result that the Adlon is shunned by the Nazis, even though Louis and Hedda have joined the Party. During World War II, specially the Battle for Berlin, the Adlon is increasingly becoming a military hospital. 1945 - Louis and Hedda leave the hotel to see her estate in Fahrland. Frederick Loewe and his daughter Sonja hold the fort at the hotel. The ailing Louis Adlon is arrested and interrogated by a Russian commando. He is released, but dies on his way home to his estate of a heart attack. After the Battle for Berlin, Russians forces occupy the Hotel Adlon, which is still largely intact. There a wounded Siegfried, now an SS -Hauptsturmführer, has also found refuge and is hiding in the cellar. During a sweep by Russian soldiers a shooting causes a fire to break out, in which the hotel is mostly burned to the ground. Siegfried could not be found when Frederick Loewe tried to save him from the flames. The hotel is expropriated by the Russian occupiers and Sonja Schadt is entrusted with the supervisory commission. Sebastian, who lost a leg in the war, returns to Berlin. He is Sonya's partner and her partner in the management of the hotel. In 1952, an Israeli socialist at a congress in the German Democra