Author, Historian. He was a 20th-century German-born author, whose life was seriously impacted from the rise of the Nazi Party with their leader Adolph Hitler and his anti-Semitism agenda. Born into Jewish ethnicity, he was not a practicing Jew. He was educated at the University of Heidelberg, graduating in 1932 and studying archaeology, classical philology, philosophy, and art history. He earned his PhD while in Rome in 1935. In 1936 he married Hildegard Löwenstein, who later became author Hilde Domin. In 1932 he fled to Italy, and with much difficultly gaining a visa, the newlywed couple escaped to England, United States, and finally, to República Dominicana, in August of 1940 living there for nearly 13 years. This was the only country that would unconditionally welcome them. He became a lecturer and professor of art history and archaeology at the University of Santo Domingo, while his wife Hilde became a photographer of architecture before starting to write poetry. He served as a member of the National Committee for the Preservation of Monuments starting in 1946 and established a plan to preserve historical monuments not only in his adopted country in Central America but South America. From 1953 through 1954, he was in New York City as a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, researching architecture, planning and design. In 1954 upon returning to West Germany, he learned that most of his family had perished during World War II at the hands of the Nazi Forces. His research continued and he traveled to Spain between 1955 and 1957 and 1958 and 1960. In 1955 he published his most prominent work, "The Architectural Monuments of Hispaniola", which incorporated much of the prior knowledge, which he had accumulated from his work with the monuments of Hispaniola. After becoming associate professor at University Heidelberg in 1960, he was promoted to full professor in 1974, establishing the Department for Iberian, Ibero-American, and Pre-Columbian Art at the Institute of Art History. He was promoted to an emeritus professor in 1977. He became a co-editor of "Ibero-Amerikanischen Archivs", an Ibero-American archive in 1975. Palm wrote poetry and also edited and translated Spanish poetry into German. Including his PhD dissertation in 1935, he was credited with publishing ten articles. His textbook, Homecoming in Exile: Writings on Art and Literature" has been printed in German, English, French, Spanish and still available in the 21st century. His 251-page "Santo Domingo Colonial Art and Architecture" was published in 1977. In Santo Domingo, the Fundación Palm, whose mission is to study and promote Dominican patrimony, especially architecture, urbanism, and literature, was established in his honor.