Messberghof by yooperprof
An undescript office block on the bustling Ost-West Strasse (and across from the Messberg U-bahn station) bears silent witness to Hamburg's connection to the horrors of the Holocaust. During World War II, this building served as headquarters for the German industrial combine "Tesch und Stabenow" - the company responsible for the manufacturing of the Zyklon-B gas used in NAZI extermination camps. In the 1946, the two directors of the firm were sentenced to death for their complicity in the mass murder of millions.Interestingly, the building was originally named after Albert Bolling, the director of the HAPAG shipping and transportation firm. But Bolling was Jewish, and so the name of the building was changed during the 1930s.
The memorial plaque was dedicated in 1997.