
Spies, radicals and deportees: one hotel in wartime Paris
From HistoryExtra podcast
Published 5/26/2026
The Hotel Lutetia in central Paris lived several lives in the tortured times of the 1930s and 1940s. Before the war, it was the hub of dissenting activity from anti-Nazi German exiles. During the war, it was the HQ for German military intelligence – and after the war, it was a deportee relocation…







