 Located on Pariser Platz, or on the same city blocks that surround Pariser Platz are the French and British embassies as well as the Hotel Adlon.With the exception of the Brandenburg gate, which was heavily damaged in World War II, all other former structures that surrounded Pariser Platz were destroyed during the war, or were demolished by the East German government by about 1960.From 1960 through German Reunification in 1990, Pariser Platz held only open fields on both sides of the major boulevard "Unter den Linden".