Home tagpages Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Officer’s club of the US Army 1945 - 1994 Bundesrepublik Deutschland Geschichte Max-Planck-Gesellschaft In mid-July 1945, US troops confiscated Harnack House which had initially been occupied by the Red Army at the end of the war. The Americans found an intact building that lent itself to use as a hotel and set up their officers’ club there. more