The President Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia, is offering guests the unique opportunity to spend the night with some of the most famous – and most notorious – world leaders of all time. Each room in the hotel is designed around a different president, prime minister, or dictator.
The most controversial is Room 501, the “Hitler room,” outfitted with a portrait of Adolf Hitler wearing a swastika patch. The hotel’s owner, Dusan Zabunovic, claims this room, at roughly $200 a night, is his most requested.
Despite drawing
criticism from the Anti-Defamation League
over the Hitler room, Zabunovic claims that he hasn’t designed the rooms to glorify the dictator, but to remind people of his brutality:
criticism from the Anti-Defamation League
over the Hitler room, Zabunovic claims that he hasn’t designed the rooms to glorify the dictator, but to remind people of his brutality:
“All his victims would turn in their graves if nowhere it is reminded what a monstrous criminal he was,” he told ABC news.
Source:
www.gadling.com
Date: Jan 24, 2008
By Aaron Hotfelde
