The ECB helped create a memorial to Jews beneath its new HQ

Beneath the European Central Bank’s new headquarters is a dank cellar that hosted one of the darkest episodes in Frankfurt’s history.

The home of the eurozone’s monetary guardian, now on the verge of completion, is in Frankfurt’s Ostend on the site of the vast Grossmarkthalle, for years the location of the city’s bustling fruit and vegetable markets.More than 2,600 central bankers started to move into the site’s 45-storey glass towers this week. Between 1941 and 1945, almost four times that number of the city’s Jews were packed into the basement – hired by the Gestapo as a hidden waiting room – in the hours before trains took many to their deaths.....Continue Reading

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