After the 1938 Anschluss of Austria by Nazi Germany, the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei - Secret State Police) set up headquarters in the Hotel Metropole on Morinplatz. After the war the hotel was razed, and in 1951 a stone was placed at the former location in memoriam. The city of Vienna erected the current monument to all victims of National Socialism. The word "Jew" appears nowhere.