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.
Anne Jacquemin
Solange Verdier / Rose-Marie Verdier

Dominique Pinon
Colonel Otto Strudel

Pierre Kiwitt
Lieutenant Johan Brandt

Antoine Basler
Colonel SS Spieder