
Between September 1940 and August 1944, luxury hotels are requisitioned by the Germans as staff headquarters, giving the hotels' employees a ringside seat of the enemy's secrets and activities. Such is the case with Royal Palace, run by Maxime and Solange Verdier, in which the Abwerth, the German counter-intelligence service, establishes its HQ.

as François Verdier

as Maxime Verdier

as Hortense Verdier

as Marion Verdier

as Solange Verdier / Rose-Marie Verdier

as Colonel Otto Strudel

as Lieutenant Johan Brandt

as Colonel SS Spieder

as Général Sternitz

as Anatole Mandrin

as Olga Jacobsen

as Adolf Hitler