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Hotel Exile

by Jane Rogoyska

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · February 23, 2026

Thinking about war

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A history of the Hôtel Lutetia on Paris's Left Bank during the Second World War era, peopling the hotel with the intellectuals and refugees gathering there in the 1930s, the German military intelligence service who made it their headquarters, and the deportees returning from concentration camps.

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