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  • Ruins found of Munich synagogue destroyed by Hitler

    07/09/2023 8:47:22 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 24 replies
    BBC News ^ | July 5, 2023 | Paul Kirby
    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...