Munich's main synagogue in 1938Image Source, Alamy
Posted on 07/09/2023 8:47:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Eighty-five years after Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of Munich's main synagogue, construction workers have found rubble from the building in a nearby river.
They uncovered columns from the synagogue and a stone tablet showing some of the Ten Commandments.
The Jewish community and local figures are delighted with the discovery...
There had been no sign of the building since it was torn down in June 1938, after Hitler demanded its removal as an "eyesore". Five months later, Jews, synagogues and Jewish-run businesses were attacked across Nazi Germany in the deadly November pogrom widely known as Kristallnacht...
The stone tablet originally came from above the Ark (containing the Torah) on the eastern wall of the synagogue, which was one of Munich's most famous pre-war landmarks. The old site is now covered by a Karstadt department store...
The Leonhard Moll building company that destroyed the synagogue had apparently stored the rubble on its site west of Munich until 1956.
Some 150 tonnes were then dumped in the river to renovate the big Grosshesseloher weir, mainly from the synagogue but also from buildings bombed during the war.
The 90-year-old head of the Jewish community in Munich, Charlotte Knobloch, was thrilled by the discovery as she had worshipped in the old synagogue as a girl before it was destroyed...
Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter told public broadcaster BR that finding the remains of such a magnificent building was a "stroke of luck." His deputy Katrin Habenschaden said it was the city's historic duty to make the discovery secure and return it to the Jewish community.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Munich's main synagogue in 1938Image Source, Alamy
bkmk
As if nobody knew where the synagogue stood 85 years ago? Ridiculous!
WTF are you talking about?
Apparently after the Synagogue was demolished, the remains were thrown into a river.
I imagine the person mentioned in the article knew where the temple was located.
Above: Arch of Titus (Roman Forum) depicts Roman soliders carrying off the spoils from the destroyed 2nd Temple in Jerusalem (70 A.D.)
It’s like saying that historians lost track of the site of the Crystal Palace in London or of the Vanderbilt mansion on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
BUild Back Better ! ( sarc.)
Not really. Everyone knew where the building was. What they didn’t know was where some interesting rubble from it was dumped, like a Ten Commandments in stone, some columns etc. Now that those items have been found they can use them for a monument or something.
It wasn’t that they didn’t know the original location where the building has been.
Gotcha.
Don’t know exactly what they intend on doing with those columns and Ten Commandments in stone though. Germans like to avoid the topic so I’m guessing they won’t do anything, but would probably let the local synagogue have those things if they want them.
As an aside, in Munich I was taking a tour and we passed a large park with a pond and a very large hill that snaked a mile or two. It was covered in trees and walking paths. The tour guide told us it was the rubble from the WWII bombings that was unusable to rebuild!
This Hitler guy, I’ve had it up to here with him.
He will be out of office in Jan. 2025.
Are you illiterate? The article feigns surprise over this “discovery.” AS IF THE LOCATION WAS NOT KNOWN. It’s been only 85 years. Locations from 2000+ years ago are well known. But not this location from 85 years ago?
I read it more as, they probably figured that the Synagogue was reduced to rubble, and they would never find any remnants of it.
Let’s hit Hitler where he lives
America never forgives
Let’s force him to surrender
In incendiary splendor
Let’s hit Hitler where he lives
It’s not the location, it’s the rubble (e.g., a frieze of the 10 commandments), which was moved twice apparently.
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