Palast Hotel on Potsdamer Platz

 

The Palast Hotel stood on the north-eastern angle of the Potsdamer Platz, facing the Friedrich-Ebert Strasse and the Leipziger Platz. It shouldn't be confused with the Hotel Palast in DDR-Berlin. In 1943 the building on Potsdamer Platz was burned out during an Allied air raid on Berlin and was eventually demolished. 

It was a high-class hotel, as the other around Potsdamer Platz. During the Nazi period it became the headquarters of the Mittel Europäisches Reisebüro (Middle European Travel Agency). This organisation had been taken over and run by the SS. It played a role in the Holocaust.