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The old town hall was opened in 1863, but the building you see today and in the photographs was opened in 1937, three years before the Occupation. It is used for important administrative services like issuing identity cards. Throughout Luxembourg, including in Esch, the Nazi administration was introduced.
Despite being valuable and prosperous citizens, and even before the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg, Jews felt underappreciated and defenceless against rising antisemitism. Luxembourgish nationalists claimed that Jews were a threat to the “real” Luxembourgers who would become an extremely rare “species."
The nationalists falsely believed Jews took over most Luxembourgish financial sources, and that Jews were destroying spiritual freedom, the purity, the morals and the identity of the Luxembourg people. The motto of local nationalists ("Luxembourg to Luxembourgers") aimed to keep ethnic and linguistic borders alongside the national territory.