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Between 1850 and 1939, Hamburg was the gateway to the world for more than five million Europeans who passed through the port on their way to new lives, most of them bound for the United States, and the BallinStadt emigration museum tells their story at the very place from which they sailed. It stands on the Elbe island of Veddel, in three reconstructed buildings that recreate the emigrant halls built here from 1901 by Albert Ballin, the visionary director of the HAPAG shipping line. Faced with ...