My parents spent New Year’s Eve 1944 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm. In 1898, this gilded hall was created, and it is much the same today. According to what I have read it was modeled after the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles....
In 1944 and 1945, while World War II was raging all around neutral Sweden, our parents Herman Allen and Hedvig Johnson often dined at the Grand Hôtel. Not only was it the finest hotel in Stockholm (one of the finest in Europe!) it was headquarters...
(1945) Hotel Berlin is all about what was happening in a grand Berlin hotel near the end of World War II. ...
In 1944 Stockholm. there were many restaurants available for the dining pleasure of the members of the American Legation and the American airmen who were interned there....
I have been told by an American airman who worked with him that my Dad, Herman F. Allen, met with Arne Uggla for lunch at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. This would have been in 1944....
The Grand Hôtel in Stockholm was built in 1874 by Frenchman Régis Cadier on the street Blasieholmshamnen, just across from "Old Town." It was indeed Stockholm's first "grand" hotel....
Being a neutral country, Sweden was a haven for travelers from countries all over the world. Many countries had legations (or embassies) there, including the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, as well as others....